Underscoring that last week’s abstention from a UN Security Council vote criticizing Israeli settlements was for show, and had no policy implications for the Obama Administration, White House officials today promised to veto any additional UN resolutions about Israel for the rest of Obama’s time in office.
The US traditionally makes it a point to veto any resolution remotely Israel-themed at the UN, and last week’s abstention was the first in eight years, along with the first to mention Israel’s settlement expansion in 36 years. At the time, US officials said they could not in good conscience veto the resolution because they agreed with everything in it.
That claim apparently was a one-time deal, however, since the promise to veto anything else proposed includes anything else that they agree with. President-elect Donald Trump has promised vetoes as well, and his transition team has suggested he wants to find a way to “repeal” the previous UN vote.
Which likely isn’t possible, but is also irrelevant, since Israel has no intention of doing anything to comply with the already passed resolution, and US vetoes will preclude any further efforts to stop the settlement expansion. As riled as the Israeli government is over that resolution, the toothless US position on it makes it effectively worthless.
There you go – that’s more like it …
oh well the tail is wagging the dog again
Obama’s legacy ends by kissing Netanyahu’s ass again. And so it goes, here in the Land of the Abject and the Home of the Cowardly.
This guy is a total embarrassment.
Stands up against Israel with 3 weeks left, then backs down right away.
Lucrative speaking deals are upheld! Well, can’t blame Mr Hope & Change.
Will there be popular uproar if Trump continues and actually doubles down on the Israel Rimming policy? One can hope..
Good to know who runs American foreign policy. Sad that it is not America.
It is not just America’s foreign policy.It is America itself.Not only sad but shameful
Oh yes, the old AIPAC talking point about poor little ol’ Israel, in a sea of hostility. The fact is that Israel is the nuclear armed military Goliath of the Middle East that treats its own people as subhumans, just like the Germans treated the them in the 1930s.
Catholics, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Taoists, etc.
Just curious why these words are permissible without moderation but the one that’s missing, isn’t.
Syria’s destruction was brought about in large part of the rebels mostly from Iraq/Libya armed and trained by Saudis n America…heck even israel in 2011 was proudly boasting theyll rather have jihadist in charge than Assad.
heck Qatar was bragging that they were airlifting libyan rebels into Syria..
all sides care not for the welfare of mankind (God’s creation) but their own self intetest.
Gutless. This is why it took them eight years to do the right thing.
They do the right thing once, finally, and then immediately promise that never again will they do the right thing.
What a waste.
Our abstention was 40 years late. We should have used our influence at that time to stop the criminal aggression of the state of Israel in stealing the land from the Palestinians. The Balfour agreement was to establish two individual states and we have never had the guts and integrity to enforce this. We are guilty by association.
Perhaps there would not be so many if any one of them had actually worked, actually been followed up. Why was that? The US.
And Jesus Christ said , ” And the meek shall inherit the Earth . ” .. And he also said ” Blessed are the peacemakers . ” …..
We have proof of the illegal actions of Israel
So let’s sanction Russia.