Spokesmen for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claim to have come upon “iron-clad information” from several sources which pins last week’s UN Security Council vote, which condemned Israeli expansion of settlements in the occupied territories, on a scheme by the Obama Administration.
Spokesman David Keyes insisted Obama helped create the resolution in the first place, and Ambassador Ron Dermer said Israel intends to present the evidence to the Trump Administration “through the appropriate channels.” Dermer encouraged Trump to share it with the American people to prove that the US “was behind this ganging up on Israel at the UN.”
Though there is no indication what this “evidence” is or how reliable it might be, or indeed if it is anything more than just another Israeli flight of fancy during the post-UN fury, some analysts are warning even the threat risks further politicizing US-Israeli ties within the US, with the far-right Israeli government picking fights with the outgoing Democratic administration after years of tension.
The White House has denied having any role in drafting the UN Security Council resolution, and the US was the only nation not to vote for the resolution, abstaining in a 14-0 vote. Officials have insisted they could not in good conscience veto a resolution they agreed with, however, adding that they’ve long opposed Israel’s expansion of settlements.
Is that considered a threat by someone? I think people would praise that revelation as one of the most eventful things Obama did while president.
This will be his true legacy of doing something right.
It is noteworthy how most US media are obviously slanting this US-Israel dispute in favor of Israel. For example, CNN has repeatedly provided Israel’s official spokesman with an unopposed platform to make Israel’s accusations, without providing equal time for an official US spokesman to rebut those accusations. Further, CNN hosts have either accepted the Israeli accusations without any question, or on occasion have mildly suggested that perhaps Israel might come up with some proof. Meanwhile, our “representatives” in Congress of both political persuasions are supporting Israel and condemning our President for daring not to comply with Israel’s demand that the US support whatever Israel chooses to do. If there were any need for more proof that Israel owns the political prostitutes who dominate our Congress, this incident ought to supply that proof.
Most Americans support Israel so when our representatives support Israel they are actually acting as our representatives.
AIPAC money, which in fact is our money coming back to peddle influence, corrupts the politicians, like all Lobbies do.
Most Americans are ignorant and uninformed.
If most Americans support Israel, they should feel free to write the aid checks themselves from their personal funds instead of asking “representatives” to steal money from everyone else to send to Israel as aid.
Only the ones that don’t think .
Johnson the USA population does not support Israel. A select few do. It is the great lie of the close relationship. What you have is a bunch of rich money people who have purchased our elected officials.
There as many that dont , but the media will give them a voice except as a criminal .
Richard the good news is no one listens to cnn. I do not understand how they pay their bills. CNN is the most bias among bias media
Bibi’s evidence must be on par with the evidence of Russian vote-tampering in our last election. Smoke and mirrors and a lot of bluster, but no substance.
An INFORMED SOURCE advises me that HACKERS in the computer science lab at Ramat Aviv Gimel Elementary School have broken through the State Department’s back-up server sitting on top of the microwave oven in John Kerry’s kitchen.
Threatening to expose Obama for conforming to official US policy, the one they have repeated and restated endlessly in the course of the past eight years, the same policy as has been followed by every American administration since 1967.
Accuse Obama of not being hypocrites?
“Look at this: proof the administration is agreeing with US law, international law, and the opinion of every other country on the planet! Shameful!”
I’m going to predict it again: Trump is going to threaten the existence of the UN – or at least the participation of the United States in the UN- before the year is out. If not the month.
Such lack of hypocrisy. Terrible.
I have proof Netanyahu was behind “Cast Lead”.
All the news reports when it happened
Which is the greater crime?
Cast Lead was self-defense, not a crime.
In the same way the Holocaust was self defense
It was cruel slaughter for the sake of slaughter.
Using White Phosphorus , illegal now to use on anyone anywhere oh but wait ” The Chosen ” can be overlooked
White phosphorous is not illegal in its claimed primary application (producing smoke for marking targets and masking movements).
It is illegal to intentionally use it on personnel. But of course there are dodges — “we were targeting their equipment, if they decided to stay with that equipment, that’s THEIR problem” and so forth.
Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinian lands of Palestinian people and creating a vast system of apartheid in which to imprison them. For that they get $38 billion from the US, Shame on the US and the UNSC for “ganging-up” on poor little Israel.
South African MP Rev. Dr. Kenneth Meshoe wrote in the San Francisco Examiner, “As a black South African who lived under apartheid, this system was implemented in South Africa to subjugate people of color and deny them a variety of their rights. In my view, Israel cannot be compared to apartheid in South Africa. Those who make the accusation expose their ignorance of what apartheid really is.” Meshoe made this statement upon visiting San Francisco, where he was shocked to learn of posters posted within the city comparing Israel to the apartheid regime in South Africa. He asserted, “As a black South African under apartheid, I, among other things, could not vote, nor could I freely travel the landscape of South Africa. No person of color could hold high government office. The races were strictly segregated at sports arenas, public restrooms, schools and on public transportation. People of color had inferior hospitals, medical care and education. If a white doctor was willing to take a black patient, he had to examine him or her in a back room or some other hidden place. In my numerous visits to Israel, I did not see any of the above.
The system of apartheid presently enforced by the government of Israel does not take place within Israel. It takes place outside the green line and in Gaza. In those areas, all the features of South African apartheid mentioned by Rev. Meshoe occur, and in addition privately held land of Palestinians is being stolen to make way for “settlements”, in violation of International Law governing the behavior of occupying forces. There is no possible defense of the behavior of the Israeli state. I too have been to Israel, from the Sinai to the Golan, but not since the 1980s. I would never return there today.
How do you know that there’s no Zionist connection to Palestine?
Zionism has no historical or religious connection to Judaism. There is nothing in the Talmd, Torah, or Bible that defines Zionism or that connects it to Judaism. Herzl one the founders of Zionism was a devout atheist, detested religious Judarsm. Israel is an utter fraud in many respects with Zionism being the prime fakery of all…
Is as may be using the Bible or Torah as your title should be a non-starter. More relevant would be Balfour declaration (though that is unclear) or more recent UN/international community findings. Which are in line with US policy, 1967 borders with certain mutually agreed land-swaps. I for one am just tired of the disrespect, Israel can go its own way (will anyway) but how the Pres of the most powerful nation on earth puts up with being serially humiliated by this tiny country just baffles me.
Hmmm
Perhaps because “zionism” as political ideology is a 19th century creation and the current Palestinian population can trace their ancestors back more than a thousand years.
This isn’t the United States against Israel; this is “the world” rightfully against continuation of illegal settlements, with a view toward making “facts on the ground” a barrier to a Two State Solution.
Even if Obama was “behind” the UN Resolution, so what? It has been the official US policy to oppose continued Israeli settlement expansion for this and previous Administrations. We join the rest of the civilized world with that position. Why does a leader of a foreign nation believe he is supposed to control our affairs in the Middle East. All Netanyahu has to do is STOP THE SETTLEMENTS.
I hope they don’t have any proof. I would hate to think this clown actually did something good for a change.
I guess Israel is jealous that another country has manipulated a UN vote. This is an Israeli monopoly.
I hope it is true that Obama did organize this behind the scenes. However, I doubt it, because in 8 years he never did anything like this before, and even now only abstained from the question insisted on by others.
I wonder how much arm-twisting/threatening Obama had to do to get HIS UN Ambassador to NOT cast a veto. Ms. Power is even more of a bootlicker than her boss – or his failure of an presumptive heir-apparent.
Israel is a rogue Nuclear armed state. And until they choose to live by the international law that they expect other nations to abide by, then they should expect to be treated the same way that they want other rogue nations to be treated!!! Contrary to their belief system, they are NO better than anyone else.
Trump is not the president. Why does the prime minister feel he can just ignore our nation. I know he feels any nation which is stupid enough to give so many billions for nothing deserves what it gets. I wonder if Israel will play games with other nations & threaten the massive amount of money they get every year. The horror of paying their own bills.
Why pummel Obama and America alone?America only abstained in the UNSC. What about the 14 nations who endorsed the resolution.Why not charge up on Russia or China, France or Britain for it?
Why this hubristic oaf, Netanyahu, assaults only Obama. There are 14 other nations who voted for the resolution where as USA only abstained.This arrogant bully is used to humiliating his benefactor through out. He is confidant that his servile dogs in the congress and the pliant media owned by fellow conspirators always will protect him.Now he has reason to be more arrogant since Trump, ignoring all the decency and protocol diplomacy, interfered with foreign power to torpedo his own president. May be this arrogance will go on for anther four years and after that, who knows, a man like Putin who will care for his own country’s interests rather than this bastard entity called Israel’s, will come to power. And who knows the robots in his pay roll in the congress could be reprogrammed to turn against the traitor cabal which operates them and turn into real patriotic Americans.
And this bully claims that Israel is a friend of America and friends friends don’t take friends to UNSC. Some friend.Israel is the worst enemy of America. The hard fact
It’s time these “step-children” got off of welfare. Israel is a welfare state. They had their own country, yet they continue to bleed us dry and snowflake. MAN, am I sick of hearing of Hitler.
END the UN. It’s a new century, and we want a chance to do well without a bunch of groups draining us. Where would we be.
I am so tired of Billion$ of U.S.tax dollar$ supporting this despot regime , could some else please adopt Israel ?
I’m no fan of Obama, but on this issue, I believe he is right.