Obama pulls a bait-and-switch on anti-Israel Security Council vote

[Mosby]

The Obama administration pulled a bait and switch in refusing to veto the recent Security Council resolution against Israel. In attempting to justify its abstention – which under Security Council rules has the same effect as a vote in favor – the administration focuses on “new” settlement building, especially in areas deep into the West Bank.

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But the text of the resolution itself goes well beyond new building in these controversial areas and applies equally to historically Jewish areas that were unlawfully taken by Jordanian military action during Israel’s War of Independence and liberated by Israel in a war started by Jordan in 1967.

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Is it really now U.S. policy to condemn Israel for liberating these historically Jewish areas in Jerusalem? Does Obama really believe they should be made judenrein again, as they were between 1949 and 1967?

If so, why didn’t the administration openly acknowledge that it was changing half a century of bipartisan support for Israel’s claims to these sacred areas? If not, why did it not demand changes in the language of the resolution to limit it to new building in disputed areas of the West Bank?

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/311808-obama-pulls-a-bait-and-switch-on-anti-israel-security

The Obama administration can’t have it both ways. It must now declare where it stands on Israel’s right to allow prayer at the Western Wall, access to Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital, and the repair of destroyed synagogues to the Jewish Quarter.

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1. Don't worry, Trump will soon Make Israel Great Again

This liberal Obama fellow only has about 25 days left. Then Bibi et al get every item on the rightwing wish list.

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4. LoL. You're pretending you're for 2 states when you never have been.

Humor us.

What's your idea of 2 states after a full Right of Return if not 1 Palestinian state free of Jews next to another Palestinian state that is binational at best?

As to Dershowitz, what makes him different than the vast majority of elected Democrats who support Israel as he does? Are they all neo-cons too?

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5. Most Dem. Senators, Congress critters are against the UN resolution...

Not to mention the Israeli mainstream and their political leaders. So let's not pretend only rightwing 1-staters have a problem with it.

But now that the status quo has changed due to this UN resolution, there's nothing stopping the US Embassy from moving to Jerusalem. Or Israel annexing the main settlements. Oslo is officially over.

This bait & switch was something else. The US obviously had a hand in putting the resolution together, yet allowed others to vote in favor of it while abstaining; pretending to just be following.