I don't think its as a result of pressure from the u.s that Nigeria abstained. I think Nigeria has a good relationship with Israel and wouldn't want to jeopardize that. in future Israel would return this favour. especially now that this country is getting to 2015

Nigerians are not for sale, so you cannot buy us with Money during your political Campaigns. We need Change not Money! http://solrh.me/yaNLRn"

Was it it just Nigeria dat abstained? @ op did u not see Korea, Uk n de likes. Why must Nigeria's become a topic? Nigerians badmouthing Nigeria from time imemorial.

Mynd44:

When I heard my bells went off in my head. Since when did we change this policy of ours?

Sad for Palestine. I wonder why we abstained though

I just hope the US didn't manipulate that.
Ayamlaykorn

Please mod 's should kindly change the headline and moderate this thread carefully.

I fear a fanatical muslim may read the headline and incite ignorant youths to attack Christians and torch churches.

God bless Nigeria

tbaba1234:
According to estimations, countries like South Korea and Nigeria decided against supporting the bid due to U.S. pressure. (Jack Khoury)

http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/1.634596

To hell with zionist usa & israhelli

Congratulations to the Clueless President and his diplomatic crew who just secured brand new enemies for Nigeria.

While we are still battling Boko Haram, this government should not be taking actions which could encourage very extreme elements in the middle east to have a reason to work against this great country.

Our saving grace would have to be a Buhari Presidency. wharrrraaapitty!!

tbaba1234:


Olodo,

Haaretz is an Israeli paper

pls mr olodo....what do we stand gain supporting the palestinian move to statehood on a shared territory.
this is how you guys held the country captive for ages because of your hate for isreal.
did you read the agreement...if vetoed...it will wipe isreal to less than the size of my village.
isreal is helping us presently...technologically...agriculturally...and other wise...
what can we get by supporting the palestinians...
i tot your are an agent for change...
we change our foreign policy based on the changing tides

iwriterng:
A larger percentage of Nairaland users don't understand a tad of international politics. So you expect Nigeria to align with Palestine (a struggling state) instead of United States?

What do we stand to gain from Palestine?

bombing n self destruction

[quote
author=nduchucks post=29356882]Congratulations to the Clueless
President and his diplomatic crew who just secured brand new enemies for
Nigeria.

While we are still battling Boko Haram, this government should not be
taking actions which could encourage very extreme elements in the middle
east to have a reason to work against this great country.

Our saving grace would have to be a Buhari Presidency.
wharrrraaapitty!![/quote]

pathetic
so our dplomatic relations with a reasonable country like isreal should be jeopardised because of some ragheads
go and tell your friends that nigeria can not be intimidated and cowed.

nduchucks:
Congratulations to the Clueless President and his diplomatic crew who just secured brand new enemies for Nigeria.

While we are still battling Boko Haram, this government should not be taking actions which could encourage very extreme elements in the middle east to have a reason to work against this great country.

Our saving grace would have to be a Buhari Presidency. wharrrraaapitty!!

what do you want? we vote YES and terrorist states start springing up everywhere in Nigeria [a virtually divided nation] wanting independence ... brand new enemies or not, we did the right thing!

dlux:
I do not understand why and how and Arab population will claim ownership o Jerusalem. Its plain to see that Jerusalem is owned b the Isrealites from Bible days (or other relevant history books) till date. This is what you get when you let Arabs or Muslims settle for too long on any territory. Same thing is going on in Kaduna, Benue, Kwara, Plateau and some parts of Kogi. They are even encroaching Enugu now. Islam i wonder if truely is a religion of peace...God help us.

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papalbull:
Was it it just Nigeria dat abstained? @ op did u not see Korea, Uk n de likes. Why must Nigeria's become a topic? Nigerians badmouthing Nigeria from time imemorial.

don't mind the useless op. Perhaps ,he think Nigerians are northern alamajiri they use this kind of words to brainwash . We should start killing ourselves because nigeria abstain .

One day Boko Haram will ask for statehood. Israel is the land of the Bible with millions of facts and history.

tbaba1234:
According to estimations, countries like South Korea and Nigeria decided against supporting the bid due to U.S. pressure. (Jack Khoury)

http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/1.634596

the_same_US_Nigeria_is_in_a_faceoff_with?

[quote
author=Otenestbestyaho post=29356073]JEWISH BOYCOTT
A short time ago Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khomenei
urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that
originates with the Jewish people.
In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of
his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows:

"Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan discovered
by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich. He should not even try to find out whether he has
Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew. If a
Muslim suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis,
because he will be using the method of a Jew named Neissner.

"A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a
Jew, Ludwig Traube.

Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Novocaine, a
discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil.

If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of
research by Minkowsky, a Jew. If one has a headache, he must shun
Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege.

Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew,
Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate.

Arabs must do likewise with their psychic ailments because Freud, father
of psychoanalysis, was a Jew.

Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the “Schick"
reaction which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick.

"Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit
treatment of ear and brain damage, work of Jewish Nobel Prize winner,
Robert Baram.

They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis
because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk.

"Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of
Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman, invented the wonder drug
against this killing disease.

Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements by
dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and
of many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts.

"In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and fittingly should remain
afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus,
Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be
proud to obey the Islamic boycott."

Oh, and by the way, don't call for a doctor on your cell phone because
the cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer.

Meanwhile I ask, what medical contributions to the world have the
Muslims made?"

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is
ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1990 - Elias James Corey~a christian
1994 - Yaser Arafat:
1999 - Ahmed Zewai

Economics:
(zero)

Physics:
(zero)

Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar~ a christian
1998 - Ferid Mourad~ a christian

TOTAL: 7 SEVEN

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is
FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis
1996- Lu RoseIacovino

TOTAL: 129!

The Jews are NOT promoting brainwashing children in military training
camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths
of Jews and other non-Muslims.

The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow
themselves up in German restaurants.

There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church.

There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people. The Jews don't
traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the
Infidels.

Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard
education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand
that humankind respects them.

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the
Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more
culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it
all:

'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more
violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no
more Israel."

Benjamin Netanyahu: General Eisenhower warned us. It is a matter of
history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General
Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all
possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from
surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to
bury the dead.

He did this because he said in words to this effect: 'Get it all on
record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down
the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never
happened'

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school
curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it
never occurred.

It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the
fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving
into it.

It is now more than 65 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.

Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to
be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people. Be a link in the
memorial chain and help distribute this around the world.

How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center
'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United
States[/quote]

eaglechild:
The best move is to remain neutral.

We do not need another terrorist group springing up when we vote against and we do not want our relationship with the US becoming sour at this point so good move.

You onbiously did not know what you are to say.the best way to syop violence over there is for state recognition.
Why do you think france voted yes? United state has always been the problem of the world politically.same nigeria that was not getting required assistance from the US to fight terrorism were been used..

signz:


Hian!!! Okwa unu afugo.

You don forget say there was a time churches were being bombed in the north?

Have you forgotten how churches were being torched without any provocation?

huh! Look at you,the reason they first started planting bombs in churches was to cause religious clashes btw muslims & xtians,but it failed although it only increases mutual hatred...now,they have swicth to bombing mosques & drugging innocent girls(to make them unconcious) with LSD drugs for suicide bomb misssion...(fact)

Firefire:
Good move.

Nigeria did very well in abstaining.

The Palestinian should return to the negotiations table.

The request of returning to pre 1967 border and E. Jerusalem as their capital requires mutual agreement & understanding, a unilateral approach of UN is not the solution.

Shalom!

If it were your plot of land some powerful man forcefully seized saying his God had promised it to him and then kept slapping you every morning over it and then says you beg him for the property, I wander it you will feel the same way.
Of course I will use this to campaign against him. cos this tell me that if it were me the shoes of Palestinians he will exactly the same.

People don't know the power of lobby. I support the president move because this resolution was put forth by one party without due consideration of the other party. It is wiser for Nigeria to abstain, we don't need to entangle ourselve's with a resolution that is one sided and would have never passed. I hope one islamic cleric no go yarn rubbish o.

I know nigeria was always preaching non alignment in d late 60s bt dey should ve nt sided wit d US no matter what just do anything opposite of USA. Cmon dat d only chance we get to get back at dem. Palestinians shall be vindicated soon ISA.

tbaba1234:
Nigeria has always supported the Palestinian cause for Statehood.

This is a significant but sad shift in our foreign policy.

Nigeria selling out to the wrong bidder since Gaddaffi, to think that is Africa slot that has been miss-used in abstaining makes me sick. Hope this decision will not haunt Nigeria like the Gaddaffi decision that Nigeria made and now Libya has turn to be a terrorist hub funding and fueling even Boko Haram. History will judge again!

Bifwoli:
Next time don't abstain or sit on the fence.Vote WITH Israel for the good of Nigerian security interests in terms of importation of high tech Israeli weaponry,advanced training and increased political clout.Islamic nations won't give you that.

Really? Well your soldiers train/trained in Pakistan, your weapons that was denied flight permission over Saudi airspace(probably under US order) is from Pakistan, & yes it is an "Islamic" nation. And the last time I checked Isreal woundn't sell a much needed weapon to you on the order of the US, the reason you turned to this "Islamic" nation which didn't turn you down. You guys should get real for once, bloody hipocrites

Even if Nigeria had voted in favour of it. Us would have still vetoed it.

eaglechild:
The best move is to remain neutral.

We do not need another terrorist group springing up when we vote against and we do not want our relationship with the US becoming sour at this point so good move.

US will start buying our oil again abi? If not, the effect of abstaining will be the same as against for us.

USA and the West should learn to respect Arabs and let them be.

Too many have died already for this nonsense

tbaba1234:


Of the countries mentioned, which one just changed its position

Mr Leave this,For its Filth!!

iwriterng:
A larger percentage of Nairaland users don't understand a tad of international politics. So you expect Nigeria to align with Palestine (a struggling state) instead of United States?

What do we stand to gain from Palestine?

Is that all you can come up with?
What has nigeria benefitted from the US in recent time?other than creating division and working towards nigeria disintegration?

signz:
Please mod 's should kindly change the headline and moderate this thread carefully.

I fear a fanatical muslim may read the headline and incite ignorant youths to attack Christians and torch churches.

God bless Nigeria

I understand your sentiments,be it known to you that Israel is not a christian nation

tbaba1234:
Nigeria has always supported the Palestinian cause for Statehood.

This is a significant but sad shift in our foreign policy.

Nigeria as a state have a tight diplomatic relationship with israel and is not ready to end the relationship especially after the problem with the US.
On the other hand palestine as a country have little to offer Nigeria.

funkiebully:


Keep coming out gradually, I already know where u are driving at.

Mr president is close to Israel bc He observes his religious duties. So He should shun Israel to satisfy u lots.


I know Why this man GEJ is hated so much by Muslims in Nigeria, nothing But for his faith.

fact