According to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the UN Security Council draft resolution condemning Israel’s settlement expansions was deliberately designed to use the same wordings as previous comments by US officials, to make it more difficult for the US to veto it.
“We drafted it using the same words that Secretary Clinton is using and so we don’t see why the US would veto it,” said Abbas. US officials have condemned the resolution, but it remains to be seen if they will veto it.
The UN resolution would point out the illegality of the settlements in the occupied West Bank and would urge a new freeze to assist the stalled peace process. The resolution does not call for any UN action against Israel for the settlements, however.
The Obama Administration was pushing for Israel to agree to a new settlement freeze explicitly to restart the peace process, but has abandoned those efforts because Israel declined to accept billions of dollars in “incentives” to do so. Israel has condemned the UN resolution on general principle, and is expected to press the US to veto it on their behalf.
The U.S. and Israel play the same old game again. Don't they realize they are both boring!
Not only are they boring, but they are both guilty of countless war crimes. How much longer is the world going to tolerate their posturing, their destruction, their slaughter of hapless civilians?
Boycott, divest and sanction them out of existence. They offer the world nothing, only endless war!
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The irrational idea of having a racist, land-stealing, Arab-hating, western colony smack in the middle of the Arab world is finally running into reality. Not that that is going to change the Zionist manifesto – liars like Netanyahou and Clinton will just become weirder and more blatant. They are quite capable of denying what they might have just said five minutes ago.
In the end it won’t matter – the westernized, Arab-hating Jews will go back to the West and the Palestinians will remain – in Palestine.
Israel's enemies are racist too.
It's really crucial for lefties and progressives to see (not that there is any hope that they actually will) that Obama, whom the most astute of them hail as the Great Lesser Evil, is gradually, but irrevocably, taking a huge step across a crucial line, towards essentially recognizing the Israeli settlements as legitimate.
And what this means is that any peace that could be negotiated would be a form of legalized apartheid.
The irony of the man who dares to link himself to Martin Luther King basically underwriting eternal apartheid in Palestine ought to chill the souls of progressives and lefties, only they have long since been experts at self-delusion.
Of course the USA can veto the resolution even if they used Clinton's words. We are dealing with what Israel demands since they rule the world. The USA is only the puppet to the Israel desires. There is no desire on the Israeli side to change anything. They are funded and happy and all at the expense of the rest of the world. What more could they desire? THe USA like every other nation has been bankrupted by the amazing greed of these people. Just to show the USA who is in total control Bibi is demanding that the hero J. Pollard be released because he has been in jail long enough. Pollard has been in Jail 25 years for treason and Vannu an Israel citizen has been in jail and after 30 years they cannot even find a law that he broke. So it is clear that Israel marches to a different drummer than the rest of the world. I suspect the Israelis believe the rest of the world exist for their benefit.
What makes Israel's demand for Pollard so odd is that he was an American citizen when he was found guilty in 1987 and sentenced to life in prison. In 1995, years after his crimes and conviction, Israel decided to make him a citizen.
Why not make Vanunu an American citizen and demand his release?
Not odd at all. wolfowitz is an American citizen, too. That doesn't keep him and the rest of the scum from working against the US on a daily basis, In fact, there are plenty of American citizens who work for the USG out there who have zero loyalty to America and plenty of loyalty to a certain other land.
Jason,
What do you mean that Israel has condemned the resolution "on general principle"? Not only is the phrase opaque but your presenting it in the way you do (without attribution to Israel) could be read as implying that Israel is (1) acting sincerely (2) on the basis of principles we all agree on.
Until the UN charter is changed and the VETO of the Security Council is either eliminated or the General assembly can overide the veto on a vote of the whole assembly, NOTHING will ever be done about either the United States or Israels abuse of the system.