Citing Arab and Western sources, Netanyahu spokesperson says anti-settlement resolution ‘a deliberate push by the United States’
A spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel has “rather ironclad information” that US President Barack Obama played an active role in both formulating and pushing for the UN Security Council resolution lambasting settlement construction, which passed on Friday after Washington decided not to exercise its veto and abstained.
Speaking to Fox News on Sunday, David Keyes said Arab sources, among others, had informed Jerusalem of Obama’s alleged involvement in advancing the resolution.
“We have rather ironclad information from sources in both the Arab world and internationally that this was a deliberate push by the United States and in fact they helped create the resolution in the first place,” Keyes told the US media outlet.
The White House has adamantly denied “cooking up” the resolution, rejecting accusations by Netanyahu to that effect.
“We did not draft this resolution; we did not introduce this resolution. we made this decision when it came up for a vote,” said Obama’s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes on Friday. But because of its opposition with settlement activity and concern for what it could mean for the region, the US “could not in good conscience veto,” he added.
Netanyahu held a 40-minute meeting with US Ambassador Dan Shapiro on Sunday evening, having summoned the envoy to explain why the US abstained in the vote on Resolution 2334, enabling it to pass 14-0, rather than vetoing it. He had earlier summoned the envoys of the 12 nations with representatives in Israel that voted for the resolution for a dressing-down at the Foreign Ministry.
Earlier on Sunday, addressing the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu reiterated his staunch opposition to Friday’s passage of the resolution, which condemns Israeli settlements and all forms of terrorism and incitement, and blamed Obama for not only withholding a veto but for having been a driving force behind its passing.
“We have no doubt that the Obama administration initiated it, stood behind it, coordinated its versions and insisted upon its passage,” he said.
Netanyahu is now reaching out to the incoming Trump administration, which takes office on January 20, and to friends in Congress, in the hope of “deterring” what he sees as further potential Obama administration-led diplomatic action against Israel, a report by Channel 2 said. His aim is for the Trump team to make plain that his administration will “economically hurt” those countries that voted against Israel in the UN and that do so in the future.
Netanyahu’s fear is that Secretary of State John Kerry will set out principles or parameters for a Palestinian state in a speech that he has said he will deliver in the next few days on his Middle East vision. The prime minister fears that, in its final days, the Obama administration will seek to have a resolution enshrining those parameters adopted by the UN Security Council, the report said.
On Saturday, Netanyahu, who also serves as foreign minister, canceled the upcoming visit to Israel of the Ukrainian prime minister, Volodymyr Groysman, as a punitive measure against the country’s vote. He also ordered a series of punitive measures against New Zealand and Senegal, two of the four countries that co-sponsored the resolution. Netanyahu recalled Israel’s ambassadors in New Zealand and Senegal to Jerusalem for consultations. He canceled the upcoming visit to Israel of the Senegalese foreign minister and instructed the Foreign Ministry to cancel all aid programs to the African country. He also ordered the cancellation of visits in Israel of the nonresident ambassadors of Senegal and New Zealand.
Ted Cruz: ‘No $ for UN’ Until Anti-Israel Resolution Reversed
“He will go down in history as one of the worst foreign policy presidents ever.” Alan Dershowitz blasts President Obama
“Biden Denies Lobbying Foreign Leaders to Back Anti-Israel U.N. Resolution
Insiders claim Biden pressured Ukrainian president to back resolution”
http://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-denies-lobbying-foreign-leaders-back-anti-israel-u-n-resolution/
click on “hesitant” link in article. I didn’t know the current Ukrainian PM is Jewish (though we know that doesn’t necessarily matter) or that Ukraine was hesitant to back this vote and worried about hurting relations with Israel but Biden twisted his arm. So why are they naming streets after Nazis?
http://forward.com/opinion/345738/you-want-to-name-streets-after-the-murderers-of-ukraines-jews/
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/208439/holocaust-perpetrators-honored
@ Zahavah:
Thanks. Also think this is about trying to cement the false narrative that ‘settlements are the obstacle to peace’ and the France plan, and the legacy about to be incinerated after Jan 20 2017.
Either Biden or Kerry is rumoured to be giving a speech on the peace process soon, in January, maybe Jan 15th.
I have to catch up on end of year chores, not too much more on NZ role. This is bigger than NZ being part of the plot.
Here is the rumor about Kerry’s big speech:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/311713-kerry-to-deliver-major-speech-on-mideast-peace-process
“The United States seeks to assist in the establishment
of comprehensive and lasting peace in the
Middle East, to be negotiated among those living
in the region. We oppose any measures intended to
impose an agreement or to dictate borders or other
terms, and we call for the immediate termination of
all U.S. funding of any entity that attempts to do
so. Our party is proud to stand with Israel now and
always. ”
2016 Republican Platform, p. 47, last paragraph
https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/DRAFT_12_FINAL%5B1%5D-ben_1468872234.pdf
If the Congress passes the foregoing paragraph from the 2016 Republican Platform as a bill with a veto-proof majority, Obama will not be able to recognize Palestinian Statehood without creating a constitutional crisis, on the one hand, or having it easily reversed by Trump on the other, in defence of the Constitutional clause requiring the Senate to ratify treaties. If it leads to a Constitutional crisis, perhaps it will be resolved by the swift naming and confirmation of a Conservative Justice to the Supreme Court by Trump as one of his first acts. The Corker-Menendez Amendment, which is probably unconstitutional to begin with, and which Trump promised to reverse, only applied to the Iran deal, in any case. It’s not a relevant precedent. It was a one-shot deal.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/14/corker-menendez-bill-fast-track-authority-for-iran-deal/
@ Birdalone:
Joe Biden also visited NZ. Allegedly the press were not allowed to ask questions.
These additions you might find interesting.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1611/S00107/auckland-city-for-peace-or-war-by-elizabeth-eastmond.
No international reporting on the sale of military ware.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1612/S00276/mccully-and-ban-ki-moon-do-nothing-about-anti-israel-bias.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1612/S00278/mccully-secures-shameful-legacy-for-nz-at-unsc.htm
Good luck NZ, how many bottles of wine are you going to sell to your Muslim mates….already there is news that Californian Jews will be boycotting NZ wines, Cheeses and other products.
Does no one read the ‘New Zealand Herald’? Evidence in plain sight since Nov. 13, 2016:
“NZ talks to Kerry about UN Security Council resolution on Israel-Palestine conflict” 8:01 PM Sunday Nov 13, 2016
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11747382
“One of the closed-door discussions between United States Secretary of State John Kerry and the New Zealand Government today was a potential resolution by the United Nations Security Council on a two-state solution for the Israel – Palestinian conflict.
After the talks, Foreign Minister Murray McCully even raised the possibility of the US or New Zealand sponsoring a resolution.
“It is a conversation we are engaged in deeply and we’ve spent some time talking to Secretary Kerry about where the US might go on this. …”
[No mention of this topic at the Kerry-PM Key presser on November 13]:
“Press Availability With New Zealand Prime Minister John Key John Kerry Secretary of State Premier House Wellington, New Zealand November
13, 2016 ” https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2016/11/264266.htm
Excellent article in NY Sun:
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/an-israel-america-treaty-beckons-as-a-strategy/89850/
Kerry made it clear that Obama would do anything to make life difficult to Israel!
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
“We will know how to be especially unprepared when the time comes.”
What can I say. I had been banking on that the huge MOSAD would know what was up well ahead of time. I guess they were not interested. Oi vey!
As to what is up next? Besides our hapless echelons plotting to defeat the Regulation Law and preparing to destroy more Jewish lives and homes that is.
Quite likely widespread war for which the ensemble of generalitos will be again completely unprepared.
Great stuff!
Call up the reserves NOW.
Israel should at a minimum, annex AREA C on January 21.
The Obama Betrayal is a call to attack Israel. Israel may find it necessary to re-acquire parts of Sinai and Lebanon, and Syria, as well as Gaza. Depending upon who answers Obama’s call. Egypt is suspect. Russia betrayed us as well.
These moves by Obama were premeditated long in advance and were designed to usher in an even worse US administration for Israel, yes The Administration which was a shoe in, that of Hillary Clinton. Obama should have called it off, but apparently he just could not think rationally. I underestimated Obama’s stupidity, lots of people are going to die from this buzzard’s treachery.