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Israel Fears Diplomatic Whirlwind Looming in President Obama’s Final Days

hzDecember 26, 2016December 26, 2016News

Forward

President Barack Hussein Obama

Israel fears that the United States and France want to advance another move on the Israeli-Palestinian issue before President Obama leaves office on January 20.

A senior official in Jerusalem said that during Sunday’s security cabinet meeting, ministers were presented with an assessment that during the international foreign ministers’ meeting scheduled for January 15 in Paris as part of the French peace initiative, a series of decisions on the peace process will be made. These will immediately be brought to the UN Security Council for a vote and will be adopted there before January 20.

Dershowitz: Obama Will Go Down in History as One of Worst Foreign Policy Presidents Ever

hzDecember 26, 2016News

Algemeiner

Professor Alan Dershowitz

Outgoing US President Barack Obama will be remembered in history as “one of the worst foreign policy presidents ever,” an internationally renowned American legal expert told Fox News on Monday.

“It’s the most undemocratic thing a president can do — to tie the hands of his successor during the lame-duck period,” Professor Alan Dershowitz — a Democrat — said on Obama’s decision to abstain from a vote last Friday on an anti-Israeli settlement UN Security Council resolution that passed by a 14-0 margin.

hzDecember 26, 2016News

Reuters

Barack Obama with Benjamin Netanyahu 9/21/16

Benjamin Netanyahu has been unrelenting in his criticism of the Obama administration over what he condemned as its “shameful” decision not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a halt to Israeli settlement-building.

But with the clock ticking down on Barack Obama’s presidency, a possibly more amenable Republican Donald Trump due to succeed him on Jan. 20 and a $38 billion U.S. military aid package to Israel a done deal, it’s all a calculated risk for the four-term, right-wing Israeli prime minister.

hzDecember 25, 2016December 25, 2016News

JTA

Jason Greenblatt

President-elect Donald Trump has named Jason Greenblatt, the chief legal officer for the Trump Organization, as its special representative for international organization.

A Trump transition team spokeswoman made the announcement on Friday. Greenblatt will focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as the relationship between the U.S. and Cuba, and American trade agreements with other countries, according to CNN. Greenblatt, an Orthodox Jewish man and father of six children, also serves as the executive vice president for the Trump Organization.

hzDecember 25, 2016December 25, 2016News

Bloomberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up his broadside at the U.S. government after the UN Security Council declared Israel’s settlements illegal, saying President Barack Obama’s administration “initiated and stood behind” the resolution.

Netanyahu said Obama broke a long-standing U.S. commitment not to allow the UN to impose conditions on Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians. Resolution 2334, which passed Friday by a 14-0 vote with the U.S. abstaining, demands that Israel cease construction in all areas it captured in the 1967 Middle East war and describes the West Bank and East Jerusalem as occupied Palestinian territory.

hzDecember 24, 2016December 24, 2016News

AIPAC

On Dec. 23, the United States abstained from voting against an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations Security Council.

Members of Congress from both parties have spoken out against the United States’ decision to abstain from the vote instead of exercising its veto.

Below is a full list of statements.

hzDecember 24, 2016December 25, 2016News

NY Times

In a furious riposte a day after the United Nations Security Council’s adoption of a resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday pledged to exact a “diplomatic and economic price” from countries who acted against Israel.

Mr. Netanyahu also announced that he would halt his country’s contributions to several United Nations institutions, as well as re-evaluate the presence of the body’s representatives in Israel.

hzDecember 24, 2016December 24, 2016News

Times of Israel

Marking the place where Jesus was born, the Christmas tree in Bethlehem’s Manger Square stands 17 meters (55 feet) tall. During the holiday season, visitors swarm around the base, taking grinning selfies while snacking on paper cups of sweet corn. Christmas lights adorn the old stone alleyways and the falafel sellers keep their fryers working extra late.

More than a million foreign tourists visit the Church of the Nativity each year, especially during Christmas time. Few visitors will notice anything amiss during a quick visit to the birthplace of Jesus as they dash into the cathedral with their cameras held aloft and take a few minutes to browse the plethora of shops selling Christian trinkets, the same way visitors have done for decades. But behind the cheery Christmas lights, the demographics tell a different story.

hzDecember 24, 2016December 24, 2016News

Fox News

Secretary of State John Kerry is defending the Obama administration’s decision to effectively allow the United Nations to condemn Israeli for attempting to build more settlements in the disputed West Bank, saying the “unprecedented” effort has spawned terrorism and violence that jeopardizes lasting peace in the region.

The United States on Friday abstained from a U.N. Security Council vote to adopt a resolution condemning Israel’s settlement expansion, which allowed for the measure’s passage and resulted in the disapproval of incoming Republican President Donald Trump.

hzDecember 24, 2016December 24, 2016News

Times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday accused President Barack Obama of breaching a specific commitment to Israel by allowing through Friday’s UN Security Council anti-settlements resolution, and compared the outgoing president’s behavior to that of predecessor Jimmy Carter, “a president who was hostile to Israel.”

Vowing not to be forced by international pressure into withdrawing from disputed territory, he said the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump had indicated that it would join an all-out war against what he called a “shameful” and “scandalous” decision.

Israel Fears Diplomatic Whirlwind Looming in President Obama’s Final Days

Dershowitz: Obama Will Go Down in History as One of Worst Foreign Policy Presidents Ever

Netanyahu Seeks to Rally Israelis Around Him in Anti-Obama Assault

Trump Transition Team Names Jason Greenblatt as Special International Representative

Netanyahu Says ‘No Doubt’ U.S. Behind UN Vote on Settlements

Members of Congress Respond to One-Sided United Nations Security Council Resolution

Netanyahu Promises Retribution for ‘Biased’ U.N. Resolution

Christians Worry ‘Silent Night’ May Soon Refer to Their Community in Bethlehem

After UN Veto[sic], Kerry Suggests Israel’s West Bank Foray Spawning ‘Terrorism’

Netanyahu says Obama ‘Ambushed’ Israel at UN, Likens Him to ‘Deeply Hostile’ Carter