Leave The United Nations? Sarah Palin Tells Donald Trump To Make It Happen

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wants the United States to quit the United Nations. Palin urged Donald Trump to leave the 71-year-old international body after a U.N. vote against Israel building settlements in occupied Palestinian territory.

Palin, the 2008 vice presidential candidate, said Thursday the U.S. needs to make a bold move after Trump takes office on Jan. 20. She compared her proposal to the United Kingdom leaving the European Union after this year's so-called Brexit referendum.

"I think many of us have called for America to really step up and consider what it is that we are funding and supporting via the U.N., and how it works so hard really against U.S. interests, and just saying – look what the U.K. just did," said Palin on the Breitbart News Daily show on SiriusXM. "This is such an encouraging time, where it's not just us, but those across the pond, too, are understanding that their nation's sovereignty and security are on the line here, with the ties that bind us to interests that really don't further our agendas."

President Barack Obama had U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power abstain from the Security Council resolution last week on Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday it was necessary to protect a future two-state solution that could reduce conflict in the United States. But conservatives who tend to back Israel against Palestine have slammed the decision.

"The big loss yesterday for Israel in the United Nations will make it much harder to negotiate peace. Too bad, but we will get it done anyway," Trump said after the move. Trump also has called the U.N. “just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time.”

Palin said the United States could remain a global leader outside of the United Nations.

"I called for our next president, Donald Trump, to call for the unshackling of the political bands tying us to the U.N.," said Palin. "By exiting the U.N., where injustice is actually rewarded, we then will be able to uphold America's reputation as the leader, and as the kind and compassionate and generous nation that we are – as the nation sharing values that, when emulated by any other nation, can bring justice and equal rights to any other nation. So I call upon President-elect Trump to lead that charge."

“It’s We the People needing to step up and do it. It’s our government. It’s our money funding the lion’s share of the globalist circus. It’s We the People needing to rise up and make this a part of the revolution that we have just so benefited from.”

Palin urged Americans to back her proposal and rally for their elected leaders to push for a U.N. exit. “Our government, our bureaucrats and our elected leaders, work for us,” she said. “We are the ones that need to call for this, that the UN shackles be next on the chopping block.”

Many world leaders agree the U.N. is not a perfect body, but argue that it is better than returning to the decades of global conflict that preceded its inception.

History “teaches us that order in international relations is the exception, rather than the rule,” Kevin Rudd, the former Australian prime minister, wrote in a recent report on reforming the UN. He added that the United Nations was “the worst system of international governance except for all the others.”