Though she fell short of cinching the presidency in a historic election this year, Hillary Clinton has managed to win another title. The former candidate has been named the "most admired" woman of 2016 in Gallup's annual survey. Each year since 1946, Gallup has asked Americans to name the man and woman they most admire, from anywhere in the world. This year's results are based on a poll of 1,028 people conducted from December 7 to 11. Perhaps even more notable? She's actually earned this accolade a record total of 21 times.
Clinton is officially our most beloved woman for the fifteenth consecutive year with 12 percent of votes—which is not to be confused with the 48.2 percent of the popular vote she earned in the presidental election. (President-elect Donald J. Trump came in second on that count, with 46.1 percent.) But we digress. Clinton first snagged the Gallup honor in 1993 when she became First Lady, and in the past 23 years, she's only been bested by two women: Mother Theresa in 1995 and 1996, and Laura Bush in 2001. This year, First Lady Michelle Obama took the number two spot, followed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, and Queen Elizabeth. Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who passed away in 1962, has the second-longest winning streak, having been named "most admired" 13 times.
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Among the men, President Barack Obama is most admired for the ninth consecutive year with 22 percent of the vote, defeating runner-up President-elect Trump, who received 15 percent of the votes. Gallup attributes Obama's victory over Trump to "earning more mentions among Democrats than Trump receives from Republicans." Fifty percent of Democrats surveyed chose Obama, while 34 percent of Republicans chose Trump. According to Gallup, of the 70 times the survey has been conducted, the incumbent president has won the honor 58 times, which means that while it's very likely that the president will win, he's not a total shoo-in.
Of the top ten most admired men, which include Pope Francis, Bernie Sanders, Bill Gates, and Bill Clinton, the only newcomer is Vice President-elect Mike Pence, in the number ten spot with one percent of the vote. Pence shouldn't feel too sour about his polling. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking pulled similar numbers.
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Hillary Clinton Is the Most Admired Woman of 2016
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In parting shot, Kerry tears into Israel over settlementsby By JOSH LEDERMAN and MATTHEW DALY
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State John Kerry tore into Israel on Wednesday for settlement-building, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of dragging Israel away from democracy and forcefully rejecting the notion that America had abandoned Israel with a controversial U.N. vote. Netanyahu accused the Obama administration of a biased bid to blame Israel for failure to reach a peace deal....
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Wednesday by saying that he was “deeply disappointed” in his remarks.
Kerry delivered a speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and defended the Obama administration’s decision to not veto a United Nations resolution that condemned Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The administration’s choice to abstain from the vote broke with decades of U.S. policy to support the Jewish state in the U.N. against what some call anti-Israel measures.
“I must stress my deep disappointment with the speech today of John Kerry,” Netanyahu said. “A speech that was almost as unbalanced as the anti-Israel resolution passed at the U.N. last week. A speech ostensibly about peace between Israelis and Palestinians, Secretary Kerry paid lip service to the unremitting campaign of terrorism that has been waged by the Palestinians against the Jewish state for nearly a century.”
“What he did was to spend most of his speech blaming Israel for the lack of peace by passionately condemning a policy of enabling Jews to live in their historic homeland and in their eternal capital, Jerusalem,” Netanyahu continued.
“Hundreds of suicide bombings, thousands, tens of thousands of rockets, millions of Israelis in bomb shelters are not throw away lines in a speech,” the Israel prime minister added. “They are the realities of the people of Israel that they had to endure because of mistaken policies, policies that at the time won the thunderous applause of the world.”
Netanyahu said that he hoped the U.S. Congress and President-elect Donald Trump would work with Israel to mitigate some of the damage that the U.N. resolution has done and ultimately repeal it.
“I wish I could be comforted by the promise that the U.S. says we will not bring any more resolutions to the U.N., [but] that’s what they said about this previous resolution,” Netanyahu said. “We have it on absolutely incontestable evidence that the United States organized, advanced, and brought this resolution to the United Nations Security Council.”
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The six principles that Kerry set down as the way to move forward were predictable, and not much different from the parameters President Bill Clinton issued before he left office 16 years ago.
In wake of Kerry speech, Palestinian leader says PA ready to restart ‘permanent status negotiations… under specified timeframe’
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The first cartoon depicts a falling plane with an artist in the cabin singing "a-a-a." The inscription reads: "The repertoire of the choirs of the Red Army is expanding."
The second cartoon also shows a falling plane, though with another writing: "Bad news... Putin was not inside."
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Donald Trump likes attacking soft targets, and the United Nations is about as soft as they come. Over the last two months, U.N. officials have been bracing for an entirely inevitable clash with the next U.S. administration. Their only question has been exactly what would set off the showdown. Would it be climate change? Torture?
Now they have their answer. The president-elect is gearing up to do battle with the U.N. even sooner than expected, and his casus belli is a classic sore-point in U.S.-U.N. relations: Israel. Trump not only tried to stop the U.N. Security Council’s recent resolution condemning Israeli settlements, but also suggested the U.N. itself will face consequences once he is president, tweeting, “As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th.”
That might well be true, but Trump will likely come to regret it. An early fight with the U.N. could be politically useful for the incoming president, as it offers a high-profile but low-cost way to project a muscular approach to foreign policy. Yet it could also backfire. In office, President Trump might come to realize that he needs the U.N. to deal with knotty problems like Syria—and that if he aims to cut U.S. support to the organization, he might just create space for China and Russia to increase their influence on global diplomacy.
Since the Security Council passed its first resolution in over three decades condemning Israeli settlement building last week – made possible by the Obama administration’s abstention -- Trump and congressional Republicans have aimed a torrent of abuse at the organization. Critics of the president-elect, including Sens. Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, have led calls for the U.S. to withhold funds from the organization; only one major Democrat, Sen. Diane Feinstein, has supported Obama’s move. Back on Twitter, Trump wrote off the U.N. as a “club for people to get together, talk and have a good time.”
I’m not convinced that holding long, contentious meetings and caring for the world’s refugees is anyone’s idea of a “good time,” but Trump is surely right about the domestic politics. While he would encounter considerable resistance in Washington if he carried through on his threats to reduce U.S. security commitments in Europe and Asia, bashing the U.N. over Israel is popular. And if Congress blocks some U.S. funding to the U.N., it might also make a symbolic point without necessarily doing much real harm. It could, for example, reassert an old rule – waived during the Obama era – that the U.S. should never pay more than 25 percent of the UN’s peacekeeping budget, rather than just under 29 percent as it does today. But as the U.N. University’s Centre for Policy Research has estimated[if !supportAnnotations][DG1][endif] , this would only save about $300 million a year, while the overall annual cost of blue helmet missions now hovers around $8 billion. So if Washington withholds limited quantities of cash next year, the U.N. will be able to get by.
But it is not clear that Trump will be satisfied with short-term tactical measures. Some in his circle certainly want more drastic action. John Bolton, the former firebrand U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and an early Trump supporter, has argued[if !supportAnnotations][DG2][endif] [if !supportNestedAnchors][endif] that the U.S. should hold back its entire contribution to the U.N. regular and peacekeeping budgets next year—about $3 billion.
Previous Republican presidents have tended to balance public attacks on the U.N. with quiet efforts to support the organization where it is useful to U.S. interests. The Bush administration bypassed the Security Council over Iraq and boycotted the Geneva-based Human Rights Council over its criticisms of Israel and failure to arraign abusive autocracies, but still endorsed the dispatch of large U.N. peacekeeping forces to trouble-spots like Haiti and Darfur. Trump might ultimately adopt a similar pick-and-mix approach to the U.N., but he could be vastly more destructive.
In a worst-case scenario for the U.N., the next administration could assault the institution on multiple fronts simultaneously. While demanding that the Security Council reverses its criticisms of Israel, Trump could take steps to weaken the Paris climate agreement – although he has equivocated over whether he will pull the U.S. out of the treaty altogether – and look to make big financial cuts to U.N. development and humanitarian programs.
In addition to covering roughly a quarter of the organization’s core bureaucratic and peacekeeping costs, Washington pays an outsize percentage for its relief budgets. In 2016, for example, the U.S. has chipped in more than $1.5 billion for the U.N. refugees agency, UNHCR[if !supportAnnotations][DG3][endif] . The next two biggest donors – the EU and Germany – both contributed under $400 million. It is not hard to imagine President Trump, having decried the sums the U.S. spends on foreign aid on the campaign trail, insisting that other countries should pay a far larger share of the U.N.’s bills. This could weaken the already cash-strapped humanitarians’ attempts to assist refugees and displaced persons from Iraq and Lebanon to West Africa.
If the U.S. starts to undercut U.N. diplomacy, budgets and operations next year, how will others react? The U.N. secretariat is on the verge of its own transition, with a new secretary-general, Antonio Guterres of Portugal, set to take office on Jan. 1. A veteran political operator who spent 10 years in charge of UNHCR, Guterres is about as well-qualified to deal with a Trumpian onslaught as anyone could be, although hardcore Republicans such as Bolton have noted with distaste that he was also once president of the Socialist International. Leaving this left-wing baggage aside, Guterres needs to come up with ideas about how to persuade Trump’s team not to gut the U.N. completely.
Some U.N. officials believe Guterres’s best option may be to play to Trump’s ego, and try to convince him that he can help find a way out of the Syrian quagmire. If, as he has suggested, the president-elect is willing to cut a bargain with Russia over Syria that leaves President Bashar Assad in place, there will still need to be a huge international effort to rebuild the country and try to coax refugees home. Trump has said he wants to keep the U.S. out of nation-building, and Russia lacks the resources and inclination to manage the process. The U.N. may end up filling that gap, and Guterres could try to win over Trump by underlining this role.
And there’s another compelling argument for working with the U.N. that might appeal to Trump: If the U.S. refuses to lead at the U.N., other powers might aim to fill the gap to America’s detriment. Russia has already managed to assert its influence in the Security Council over Syria while the U.S. has equivocated over how to handle calamities such as the 2013 chemical weapons crisis and the fall of Aleppo this month. China, which has long punched below its weight in the U.N.’s halls of power, has the potential to assert greater authority across the U.N. system if Trump attempts to undercut it. Both countries would doubtless welcome the chance to roll back many of the human rights norms and liberal values that successive American administrations have pushed the U.N. to promote.
The Chinese government has invested heavily in the U.N. in recent years, sending growing number of troops on blue-helmet peace operations and playing a decisive role in cementing the Paris climate deal. It is still not a major player in the humanitarian field (it has, for example, contributed under $3 million to UNHCR this year, or less than 0.002 percent of the American contribution) but has signalled that it is willing to start injecting more cash into the U.N. system. In the wake of the U.S. elections, U.N. officials and diplomats have started to speculate that Beijing may be the only power that can defend the organization from Trump.
That would, ironically, only confirm Republicans’ claims that the U.N. is fundamentally opposed to U.S. interests. In reality, the U.S. has always been the predominant power in Turtle Bay, and will remain so unless President Trump makes good on his threats to undermine the institution. If he does so, he may unwittingly hand over the U.N. to Beijing.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State John Kerry tore into Israel on Wednesday for settlement-building, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of dragging Israel away from democracy and forcefully rejecting the notion that America had abandoned Israel with a controversial U.N. vote. Netanyahu accused the Obama administration of a biased bid to blame Israel for failure to reach a peace deal....
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday said Israel's building of settlements on occupied land was jeopardizing Middle East peace, voicing unusually frank frustration with America's longtime ally weeks before he is due to leave office.
Secretary of State John Kerry launched a forceful defense of President Obama’s approach to Israel, warning that a two-state solution is “in jeopardy” in a speech outlining the administration’s vision for finding Middle East peace.
If President Trump falls for Putin’s offers of a truce, he will demonstrate to his political enemies and even his supporters that he was in fact a dupe of the Russians
Patrick Buchanan’s provocative column, “Is Europe’s future Merkel or Le Pen?” reflects a limited and bad choice for America and Europe. Both of these leaders serve Russian interests. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s pro-immigration policies have destabilized Europe, leading to the rise of pro-Putin right-wing political parties. Marine Le Pen of France’s National Front party, one of those pro-Putin political parties, wants to destroy NATO, a long-time Russian goal.
The terrible choices facing the United States mean that we are in the biggest crisis the West has faced since World War II. The dilemma outlined by Patrick Buchanan means that the incoming Trump administration has to recognize that Germany, the most important country in Europe, is in the hands of a Russian agent of influence. Despite running as the candidate of the conservative-leaning Christian Democratic Union, Merkel has destabilized her country and much of Europe by facilitating a Muslim invasion. Her involvement in the Communist Party of East Germany, when it was a major base of Soviet espionage operations, goes a long way toward explaining her curious behavior.
In a column titled, “The Suicide of Germany,” Guy Millière writes, “The attack in Berlin on December 19, 2016 was predictable. German Chancellor Angela Merkel created the conditions that made it possible. She bears an overwhelming responsibility.” He notes, “When she decided to open the doors of Germany to hundreds of thousands of Muslims from the Middle East and more distant countries, she must have known that jihadists were hidden among the people flooding in. She also must have known that the German police had no way of controlling the mass that entered and would be quickly overwhelmed by the number of people it would have to control. She did it anyway.” (emphasis added)
The “she must have known” formulation is more evidence of a deliberate policy to destabilize Europe. She intends to run for re-election in 2017.
Labeled a “populist” by Buchanan, Marine Le Pen, the leading candidate for the presidency of France in 2017, talks a lot about French sovereignty but acts like a tool of Moscow. The Russia Today (RT) propaganda channel highlights her call for “closer ties with Russia” and opposition to U.S.-led NATO.
In events that have shocked the liberal media, Trump and/or his advisers have been reported to be meeting with representatives of European right-wing political parties, some of them pro-Putin. However, Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, has written in his own book that there is a “Russia connection” to Islamic terror networks and “many of the KGB’s safe houses, station headquarters, and secure communications networks were put at the disposal of terror groups.” This implicates Vladimir Putin, former officer and head of the KGB, in the conflicts that have spilled over into Europe and Israel.
Meanwhile, as commentators in the U.S. criticize the Obama administration for abstaining on the anti-Israel United Nations resolution, it is no surprise that Russia and China both voted for it. Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich did not miss the significance of this anti-Israel vote, commenting, “So Russia having illegally occupied Crimea and eastern Ukraine votes to condemn Israel for ‘occupied lands.’ We are supposed to be impressed.” He might have mentioned China’s own illegal seizures of territory.
“Russia has never ruled Israel,” notes one Israeli commentator, Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, “but the Russian Army has never stood as close to Jerusalem as it does today.” Professor Efraim Inbar of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies tells the publication, “It should be remembered that Russia sides with Iran, supports Hezbollah, and even has relations with Hamas.”
Turkey, a member of NATO, has since joined with Russia and Iran, the new powers in the region, for talks. It has been forced into the arms of Russia because of the Obama administration’s failure to save Syria from Russian aggression that propped up an unpopular and repressive dictatorship. In truth, Obama help accelerate the conflict when he ordered his CIA to support “rebels” against the Syrian regime that were linked to jihadist groups. They were no match for the superior Russian and Iranian forces which intervened on the side of the Syrian regime. Up to 500,000 were killed.
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What’s at stake is the control of Europe and the entire Middle East
Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem will have symbolic value. But it does nothing to protect Israel from an attack by its regional enemies bearing Russian arms.
One way to turn the tide is to order the CIA out of the terror-supporting business and start shining the light on Russia’s historical links to Islamic terrorism, known as the Red Jihad. These connections, which still exist, are not only a threat to Israel but demonstrate that “Red Russia” is behind the immigration crisis and the Muslim invasion of Europe.
Obama is leaving the White House. His ability to damage Israel and other U.S. allies will soon end. But Putin has only just begun to fight. What’s at stake is the control of Europe and the entire Middle East.
If President Trump falls for Putin’s offers of a truce, he will demonstrate to his political enemies and even his supporters that he was in fact a dupe of the Russians.
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With less than a month left in office, the secretary of state laid out parameters for a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday began to lay out President Barack Obama's administration's vision for Middle East peace, offering a framework for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
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