Haim Saban Is “Disappointed” In Barack Obama Over UN Censure of Irsael

Over the length of the Obama presidency, I have voted for him, I have agreed with most of his decisions during his leadership of the US, and I have tried hard to be patient with his efforts both domestic and foreign, but now I must draw the line.

“We are outraged over the USA failure to veto this biased and unconstructive UNSC resolution on Israel”, Jonathan A. Greenblatt, a former Obama administration official who now heads the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement.

We should be very anxious about recent developments with Israel and the Middle East.

Settlements are controversial in Israel, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he’s committed to more settlements and seemingly expects unqualified USA support for whatever Israel does.

Their disapproval marks a notable rebuke of the Obama administration by fellow Democrats just weeks before the 44th president is scheduled to leave office. When Jordan attacked Israel again in 1967, Israel recaptured these Jewish areas and allowed Jews to return to them. Israel proved that in Gaza when it dismantled every single Jewish settlement and evacuated every single Jew from the Gaza strip.

“Fatah is saying more Israelis will pay with their lives as a result of the United Nations resolution”, explained Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli NGO that monitors and analyzes local Arab media. Israel is economically independent, part of the worldwide tech scene, and in many ways but geographically a part of Europe.

The very notion that Palestinians have a right to land over which they have never in history exerted control seems a stretch, but it’s one that much of the world, including the USA under both Democratic and Republican presidents, has accepted at face value.

In fact Palestinian Authority Leader Abbas stated they will never sign a deal demanding recognition of Israel as a Jewish State.

Netanyahu describes his government as “more committed to settlements than any in Israel’s history”; he has endorsed legislation that would legalize scores of settlements on private Palestinian land that were considered illegal by Israel’s courts. Fourteen member states voted in favor of the text and the U.S. abstained, allowing the resolution to pass. Those settlements, Palestinian leaders say, are eating into the land that would potentially become an independent state of Palestine.

Kerry’s one-sidedness was also evident in his failure to press the Palestinian leadership to accept Netanyahu’s open offer to begin negotiations immediately with no pre-conditions.

The governance of Jerusalem is at the core of the decades-long global dispute centred around competing land claims made by Israel and Palestine. Israel needed to be told it was wrong.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says he will ask Congress to stop sending money to the United Nations until the resolution is repealed.

Israel and Mr Trump had urged the U.S. to use its veto.

And once USA pressure ends and settlement building in the West Bank proceeds, Netanyahu, his hawkish Cabinet, the Israeli lobby, the neocons and the congressional Republicans will start beating the drums for Trump to terminate what he himself has called that “horrible Iran deal”. They knew it would harm Israel’s moral standing – now the delegitimizers can claim that Israel is in violation of “Security Council” resolutions – and give an unmerited win to the Palestinians. The Psalmist said: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem” (Psalm 122:6).

Relations between the United States and Israel are often tempestuous, but the fireworks have rarely been as explosive as those that marked the end of 2016.