{"id":71604,"date":"2019-07-14T17:05:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T15:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=71604"},"modified":"2019-07-10T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T05:05:04","slug":"14-05-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=71604","title":{"rendered":"Did Obama control timing of anti-Israel UN resolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Did Obama control timing of anti-Israel UN resolution?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

David Rosenberg<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Obama administration official says White House effectively backed anti-Israel resolution, pushed it off until after 2016 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obama \/ Reuters<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Obama White House may have exerted more influence over a controversial anti-Israel United Nations resolution than previously believed, according to a new report by\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In December 2016, following the 2016 presidential election, the Obama administration ordered the US mission to the UN to abstain from a Security Council vote on resolution 2334, which condemned Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem as \u2018flagrant violations\u2019 of international law with \u201cno legal validity\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The surprise decision not to veto the measure \u2013 abandoning the traditional US policy of barring blatantly anti-Israel measures at the Security Council \u2013 was initially seen as a parting blow to the Netanyahu government in Israel, but not part of an orchestrated effort by the Obama administration to target Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

US officials emphasized that the measure had been drafted by Egypt, with no indications the US had been involved in either the preparation or timing of the resolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

But a new report by the\u00a0NYT<\/em>\u00a0Thursday suggests that the Obama administration had in fact resolved to enable the resolution to be passed earlier in 2016, but used its influence to push off the UNSC vote until after the 2016 election.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a reason the U.N. vote did not come up before the election in November,\u201d a former US official told\u00a0NYT<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stressed that the Obama White House was supportive of the resolution, but felt compelled to push off its passage until after the November election.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWas it because you were going to lose voters to Donald Trump? No. It was because you were going to have skittish donors. That, and the fact that we didn\u2019t want Clinton to face pressure to condemn the resolution or be damaged by having to defend it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s deputy national security advisor, Ben Rhodes, went even further, arguing that the Obama administration, and much of the Democratic party\u2019s base, is far less sympathetic towards Israel than the party as a whole, with the \u201cdonor class\u201d keeping party officials on an at least ostensibly pro-Israel line.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Washington view of Israel-Palestine is still shaped by the donor class,\u201d Rhodes told the\u00a0NYT<\/em>. \u201cThe donor class is profoundly to the right of where the activists are, and frankly, where the majority of the Jewish community is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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