Obama and Kerry are behind the ‘shameful’ U.N. vote to end settlement building, Israeli official says

Reuters
Maayan Lubell

Dec. 23, 2016

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are behind a “shameful” draft anti-settlement resolution at the U.N. Security Council, a senior Israeli government official said on Friday.

It was one of the harshest personal attacks by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Obama, coming in the final days of his presidency. The two leaders have had an acrimonious relationship.

“President Obama and Secretary Kerry are behind this shameful move against Israel at the UN,” said the official, who asked not to be identified.

(Why is the United Nations involved in this?  This is Israel’s land and the rest was won through a war.  It would be like someone coming into our country and telling us that we can’t build on certain pieces of property that belonged to us.  When is the U.S. going to get out of the business of meddling in other country’s business?  It has been proven that Palestine does not want peace or be a good neighbor.  They want the whole ball of wax.  It is time that Saudi Arabia give Palestine some of their land (desert) and see what they will do with it.  No, these people always wants land that someone has worked to develop – so they can walk in and start living and making trouble..  They can’t even solve their own religion problem because they all want their own named religion to be the grand popaw.  Why don’t they all put names in a jar and just draw for a name.  This way they can stop killing each other.)

“The U.S. administration secretly cooked up with the Palestinians an extreme anti-Israeli resolution behind Israel’s back which would be a tailwind for terror and boycotts.”

The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on Friday on the resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement-building, after four council members again put forward the measure, a day after Egypt withdrew it under pressure from Israel and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

The 15-member council had been due to vote on Thursday afternoon and Western officials said the United States had intended to allow the draft resolution to be adopted, a major reversal of U.S. practice of protecting Israel from action.

“President Obama could declare his willingness to veto this resolution in an instant but instead is pushing it. This is an abandonment of Israel which breaks decades of U.S. policy of protecting Israel at the U.N.,” the Israeli official said.

(No, Obama is a Muslim that is the problem.  He is not going to do anything to help the Jews.)

U.S. officials have voiced growing fears that a “two-state” solution is imperilled by Israeli settlement-building on land Palestinians want for a state.

(Why should Israel give land to Palestine.  Palestine does not want a two-state solution.  They want all of Israel and then all they would do is to blow up the whole state.  They are not civilized people and can only feel like they are at home is when all of the buildings are in a state of rubble. )

A U.S. abstention would have been seen as a parting shot by Obama, who has made the settlements a major target of his peace efforts.

The Israeli far right and settler leadership have been buoyed by the election of Trump, who has signalled a possible change in U.S. policy by choosing as Washington’s next ambassador to Israel a fundraiser for a major settlement.

The resolution would demand Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem” and said the establishment of settlements has “no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law”.

Egypt, currently a Security Council member, worked with the Palestinians to draft the text.

The Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem – areas Israel captured in a 1967 war. Most countries and the United Nations view Israeli West Bank settlements as illegal and an obstacle to peace.

(Solly fellow Palestinians, you lost the war. Israel has given Palestine land in the past – but they want more and more land. That’s too bad that the UN and other countries view Israeli West Bank settlements as illegal and an obstacle to peace – Palestine doesn’t want peace to begin begin with – again, they want the whole ball of wax. If I were Israel – I would tell the whole bunch to “take a long walk off a short pier – that includes Powers, Obama, and Kerry. Israel belongs to the people of Israel – not the United Nations.)

(Time for the U.S. to quit trying to run other country’s business and instead take care of our own country – which they haven’t been doing for eight years.)

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