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WASHINGTON – Israeli officials are furious with President Obama for allowing the U.N. to pass a resolution Friday calling for the limiting of the Jewish state to the borders it had before the 1967 war.
The move effectively strips Israel of any bargaining power in any future peace negotiations, by forcing the state to forfeit its biggest bargaining chip to start.
With the U.S. taking the extraordinary move of abstaining, the Security Council passed the resolution, which effectively condemns Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
By not using the United States’ veto in the U.N. Security Council, Obama effectively endorsed the resolution by not preventing it from coming up for a vote. As Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz put it, “an abstention is a vote for the resolution.”
“President Obama and Secretary Kerry are behind this shameful move against Israel at the U.N.,” charged an Israeli official, calling it “an abandonment of Israel which breaks decades of U.S. policy of protecting Israel at the U.N.”
Critics such as Dershowitz call Obama’s gambit “unprecedented” because, even though the U.S. opposes the West Bank settlements, it has always opposed votes in the U.N. condemning Israel or limiting its options.
Making Obama’s decision even more consequential is the fact the incoming Trump administration cannot overturn a U.N. resolution.
Dershowitz accused the president of “selfishly try to burnish his personal legacy at the expense of our national and international interests,” and that, “Obama is determined – after 8 years of frustration and failure in bringing together the Israelis and Palestinians – to leave his mark on the mid-East peace process.”
The issue has been a source of frustration for U.S. administrations ever since Arabs attacked Israel in 1967, only to lose the West Bank and Gaza, then demand the return of territories. Israel gave back Gaza but its government maintains the tiny state needs to retain the West Bank, and allow settlers to move there, as a buffer zone against future terrorists and any future invasion.
Most establishment politicians in the U.S., on both the left and the right, and most world leaders, consider Israel’s control of the territories to be the major obstacle to peace between the Palestinians and the Jewish state, and the so-called two-state solution.
But the man President-elect Trump will nominate to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, doesn’t believe Israeli control of the territories is the obstacle to peace. He believes the problem is Palestinian intransigence.
David Friedman, Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump
Friedman has said he “doesn’t see much opportunity for progress until the Palestinians renounce violence and accept Israel as a Jewish state.”
Even though not yet president, Trump successfully intervened to stop the resolution by persuading Egypt not to introduce it. But several other sponsors, Venezuela, Malaysia, Senegal and New Zealand, went ahead and introduced it, allowing the resolution to come up for a vote on Friday.
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