New York Daily News

The President made the right call – and the UN didn’t.

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U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley stood tall at the podium before the Parliament of Man and rejected the United Nations General Assembly’s descent into the insanity of mob rule on a vote that absurdly labeled “null and void” the Trump administra­tion’s correct decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and place the American embassy there.

Not satisfied with the evil anti-Semitism of using Israel, the world’s only Jewish state, as the perennial whipping boy, the UN pack has turned on America.

America, home to the United Nations, which was founded by an American President amid humanity’s worst war. America, the largest funder of the UN and largest funder of foreign aid in the world. America, home to the universal democratic values of equality and liberty that all claim to aspire to.

Insanity indeed. The two-thirds of the body that supported this act encompasse­d some of the world’s most despicable regimes, from Iran to Venezuela to North Korea, for a cause that also suckered countries that should know better, like Britain, France, Germany and Japan.

High praise to Canada, Mexico, Australia and Argentina, among others, for refusing to go along. And also the Poles, Czechs, Romanians and Hungarians. Having suffered decades of Soviet tyranny, they know the difference between lies and truth.

But of the 193 nations represente­d, it fell to Israel and America to tell two truths. Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon reminded all that Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since King David’s time 3,000 years ago. Haley told the delegates that the decisions of the United States are for the United States to judge, not the UN.

And she promised, channeling her boss back in Washington: “The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation.”

They tried to hurt the U.S. and Israel — and will end up hurting the UN.

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