March 28, 2024

Netanyahu SMASHES Obama For Betrayal Of Israel At UN

After Israel-hating Barack Obama had the United States abstain rather than vote against a United Nations Security Council adopting a resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction, a furious Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime minister whom Obama has treated with contempt for his entire tenure in the White House, issued a scathing denunciation of the current president:

The vote passed in the Security Council 14-0, with the United States abstaining. The members of the Israel-hating Security Council broke into applause, according to The New York Times.

Ben Rhodes, the White House deputy national security adviser, chortled, “In the absence of any meaningful peace process, as well as in the face of the acceleration of settlement activity that put at risk the viability of a two-state solution, we took the steps we did today.”

Only Thursday, Donald Trump attempted to support a move by Egypt to table the resolution; Trump and Netanyahu had both spoken to the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

But Security Council temporary members Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuela still forced the resolution to a vote on Friday.

Obama’s UN ambassador, Samantha Power, defended the abstention but whined that the United States remained committed to its “steadfast support” for Israel, all the while stating, “Today the Security Council reaffirmed its established consensus that settlements have no legal validity. The United States has been sending a message that settlements must stop privately and publicly for nearly five decades.”

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, responded, “It was to be expected that Israel’s greatest ally would act in accordance with the values that we share and that they would have vetoed this disgraceful resolution.” Speaking on the eve of Chanukah, which marks the successful rebellion of Jews roughly 2,000 years ago against oppression, he added, “We overcame those decrees during the time of the Maccabees, and we will overcome this evil decree today.”

The resolution condemned Israeli housing construction in East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria as a “flagrant violation under international law” that was “dangerously imperiling the viability” of a future peace settlement that must included a Palestinian state.

Israeli settlements are perfectly legal, as Eric Rozenman, the Washington director of CAMERA, pointed out in 2009:

The basic relevant provision, the League of Nations’ 1922 British Mandate for Palestine, Article 6, encourages “close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands not required for public use.” Most Israeli settlements in the West Bank have been built on land that was state land under the Ottomans, British, Jordanians and, after the 1967 Six-Day War, under the Israelis, or on property that has been privately purchased.

The United States endorsed Article 6 by signing the 1924 Anglo-American Convention, a treaty stipulating acceptance of the mandate. The League of Nations is long gone, but Article 6 remains in force. The United Nations’ 1945 Charter, Article 80 — sometimes known as “the Palestine article” — notes among other things that “nothing in the charter shall be construed to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or peoples or the terms of existing international instruments.”

Source: The Daily Wire

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