TIMES OF ISRAEL
GOP senators seek to defund UN over settlements resolution
by Eric Cortellessa
January 12, 2017

Republican Senators are introducing legislation that would defund the United Nations over the Security Council’s passage of a resolution last month that condemned Israeli settlements as illegal. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) told MSNBC and Fox News Thursday morning that they will propose the Safeguard Israel Act, which aims to punish the world body for its censure of Israel, in the coming days, as well as incentivize the UN to reverse course. Cruz spoke on the Senate floor last week, saying he and his former presidential rival would seek to “cut US taxpayer funding going to the UN, unless and until they repeal this disgraceful anti-Israel resolution.” READ MORE