Israeli envoy accuses White House of orchestrating UN resolution and

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"a leaked transcript"... Lol... That's extraordinarily cute, unfortunately is not considered evidence. Man, why do I sense a dejavu is upon me? Oh right, a lot on 2016 happened on the basis of "leaked transcripts". Not that Kerry would give a shit 2 weeks before leaving. At least they kicked out couple more Russian state actors and put others in Russia on persona non grata lists. We are all excited to hear what the person who was elected president but has not even set foot into white house has to say about all this.

It's a new world order... Or so...

gwb-trading said:
‘Leaked Document’ Puts Kerry At The Head Of UN Snub Of Israel
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/28/leaked-document-puts-kerry-at-the-head-of-un-snub-of-israel/
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Schumer: Kerry ‘emboldened extremists on both sides’
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/312063-schumer-kerry-emboldened-extremists-on-both-sides

Incoming Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Secretary of State John Kerry inflamed tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians with his Wednesday speech.

Kerry fiercely criticized the Israeli government for its settlement policy regarding disputed territories occupied by Israel.

“While Secretary Kerry mentioned Gaza in his speech, he seems to have forgotten the history of the settlements in Gaza, where the Israeli government forced settlers to withdraw from all settlements and the Palestinians responded by sending rockets into Israel,” Schumer said in a statement Wednesday. "This is something that people of all political stripes in Israel vividly remember."

"While he may not have intended it, I fear Secretary Kerry, in his speech and action at the [United Nations], has emboldened extremists on both sides.”

Kerry earlier Wednesday vigorously defended America’s abstention from a U.N. Security Council vote last week on a resolution condemning Israel’s settlement policy.

“Friends need to tell each other the hard truths, and friendships require mutual respect,” he said at the State Department. "If the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic. It cannot be both, and it won’t ever really be at peace.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by calling Kerry’s remarks “a great disappointment” that undermined the Jewish state.

“Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders,” he said in Jerusalem.

The U.N. Security Council passed a Dec. 23 resolution 14-0 demanding an end to Israeli settlement building in occupied territories.

The U.S. could have vetoed the measure but abstained instead, ending a longstanding American policy of shielding Israel from U.N. reproaches.

President-elect Donald Trump joined with Netanyahu in unsuccessfully pressuring the Obama administration to block the resolution beforehand.

President Obama has repeatedly clashed with Netanyahu during his eight years in office, most notably over last year’s landmark nuclear deal with Iran.

Trump, meanwhile, has pledged his incoming administration will strengthen ties with Israel and defend it on the world stage.
 
Hmm... Schumer... Schuumer... Schüler.... Schuler... Sounds pretty Je.ish to me. Oh no, I said it. My career is over and it's a matter of minutes before all my FB and Twitter and Co gets shut down.

Back to reality, this is hog wash. Kerry made a fair point that abandoning the 2 state solution makes Israel have to choose between being democratic, meaning allowing all non Jews in a one Israel equal rights or else a strictly Jewish state where minorities are subdued and disenfranchised. It makes perfect sense and reflects the frustration which should come up in every tax paying American (i am not surprised in this context that Trump is on the other side of the fence) after pouring billions of dollars into that country just so that a few right wing Jewish motherfuckers in the Israeli government destroy years if not decades of work with their illegal settlement policies.

Edit: how right I was : "The Senate Democratic caucus elected Schumer minority leader, in November 2016. ... Schumer is the first New Yorker and first Jewish person to serve as a Senate leader." (source wiki). This ethnic group always has its allegiance aligned with its roots never its political convictions or other affiliations.

gwb-trading said:
Schumer: Kerry ‘emboldened extremists on both sides’
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/312063-schumer-kerry-emboldened-extremists-on-both-sides

Incoming Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Secretary of State John Kerry inflamed tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians with his Wednesday speech.

Kerry fiercely criticized the Israeli government for its settlement policy regarding disputed territories occupied by Israel.

“While Secretary Kerry mentioned Gaza in his speech, he seems to have forgotten the history of the settlements in Gaza, where the Israeli government forced settlers to withdraw from all settlements and the Palestinians responded by sending rockets into Israel,” Schumer said in a statement Wednesday. "This is something that people of all political stripes in Israel vividly remember."

"While he may not have intended it, I fear Secretary Kerry, in his speech and action at the [United Nations], has emboldened extremists on both sides.”

Kerry earlier Wednesday vigorously defended America’s abstention from a U.N. Security Council vote last week on a resolution condemning Israel’s settlement policy.

“Friends need to tell each other the hard truths, and friendships require mutual respect,” he said at the State Department. "If the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic. It cannot be both, and it won’t ever really be at peace.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by calling Kerry’s remarks “a great disappointment” that undermined the Jewish state.

“Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders,” he said in Jerusalem.

The U.N. Security Council passed a Dec. 23 resolution 14-0 demanding an end to Israeli settlement building in occupied territories.

The U.S. could have vetoed the measure but abstained instead, ending a longstanding American policy of shielding Israel from U.N. reproaches.

President-elect Donald Trump joined with Netanyahu in unsuccessfully pressuring the Obama administration to block the resolution beforehand.

President Obama has repeatedly clashed with Netanyahu during his eight years in office, most notably over last year’s landmark nuclear deal with Iran.

Trump, meanwhile, has pledged his incoming administration will strengthen ties with Israel and defend it on the world stage.
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gwb-trading said:
Israel: 'Ironclad information' White House behind UN rebuke
http://www.wral.com/palestinian-president-hopes-paris-summit-ends-settlements/16377590/

Doubling down on its public break with the Obama administration, a furious Israeli government on Tuesday said it had received "ironclad" information from Arab sources that Washington actively helped craft last week's U.N. resolution declaring Israeli settlements in occupied territories illegal.

The allegations further poisoned a toxic atmosphere between Israel and the outgoing administration in the wake of Friday's vote, raising questions about whether the White House might take further action against settlements in President Barack Obama's final weeks in office.

With the U.S. expected to participate in an international peace conference in France next month and Secretary of State John Kerry planning a final policy speech, the Palestinians hope to capitalize on the momentum. Israel's nationalist government is banking on the incoming Trump administration to undo the damage with redoubled support.

Although the U.S. has long opposed the settlements, it has generally used its Security Council veto to protect its ally from censure. On Friday, it abstained from a resolution calling settlements a "flagrant violation" of international law, allowing it to pass by a 14-0 margin.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has had a cool relationship with Obama, called the resolution "shameful" and accused the U.S. of playing an active role in its passage.

On Tuesday, his spokesman went even further.

"We have ironclad information that emanates from sources in the Arab world and that shows the Obama administration helped craft this resolution and pushed hard for its eventual passage," David Keyes said. "We're not just going to be a punching bag and go quietly into the night."

He did not identify the Arab sources or say how Israel obtained the information. Israel has close security ties with Egypt, the original sponsor of last week's resolution who, as the lone Arab member of the Security Council, was presenting it at the Palestinians' request. Under heavy Israeli pressure, Egypt delayed the resolution indefinitely — but other members presented it for a vote a day later. Egypt ended up voting in favor of the measure.

The Obama administration has vehemently denied Israel's allegations.

"We did not draft, advance, promote, or even tell any other country how we would vote on this resolution in advance of the Egyptians putting it in blue last week," said White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.

The Obama administration has acknowledged that it considered the possibility of abstaining on a settlements resolution over the past year as various drafts were circulated by different countries. In announcing the abstention, U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power referred to continued Israeli settlement construction and a recent effort to retroactively legalize dozens of illegally built settlement outposts.

A White House official said the U.S. was approached repeatedly by countries urging it to let the resolution pass, yet only replied by saying the U.S. would feel forced to veto any resolution that didn't also criticize the Palestinians for inciting violence. The official wasn't authorized to comment by name and requested anonymity.

The Palestinians, with strong international backing, seek all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in 1967, as part of an independent state. They say continued Israeli settlement undermines that goal, since already some 600,000 Israelis live in these areas.

Israel is livid that the resolution does not appear to recognize its claim to any part of the occupied areas, including Jewish holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City, though the resolution leaves the door open to agreed land swaps. The Palestinians did not embrace several past peace offers that would have left them with a state on the vast majority of the land, with a foothold in Jerusalem.

Past Security Council resolutions on the issue have been more vague. Critics of Israel argue that by insisting on the settlements, Netanyahu has earned the global impatience.

Netanyahu has made no secret that he is counting on President-elect Donald Trump to contain the damage. Trump has indicated he will be far more sympathetic, and has appointed an ambassador with deep ties to the settler movement.

Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev, a close Netanyahu ally, dismissed Obama. "He is history," she told Channel 2 TV. "We have Trump."

The resolution seems largely symbolic, lacking any enforcement mechanism.

But Palestinians believe it will strengthen their position as they push on with a campaign to pressure Israel on the international stage.

President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday he hopes an upcoming Mideast conference in France will lead to concrete measures. "We hope this conference comes up with a mechanism and timetable to end the occupation," Abbas told a meeting of his Fatah party. "The (resolution) proves that the world rejects the settlements, as they are illegal."

Husam Zumlot, an adviser to Abbas, told The Associated Press the Palestinians want the resolution to serve as a "foundation" for any future peace talks. He also said the Palestinians would use the text to bolster their case at the International Criminal Court, where they are trying to push a war crimes case against Israel over settlement policies.

French officials expect some 70 nations to participate in the Jan. 15 conference. Israel and the Palestinians are not expected to be invited, though officials are considering inviting the Israeli and Palestinian leaders for follow-up talks. Abbas seems open to this, while Netanyahu has chafed, saying international dictates undermine negotiations.

Netanyahu has instead called off a number of diplomatic meetings and visits with countries that supported the resolution.

On Wednesday, a Jerusalem municipal council is expected to grant building permits for roughly 600 new homes in Jewish areas of east Jerusalem.

Deputy Jerusalem Mayor Meir Turgeman, who heads the zoning committee, also said this week he will push plans for some 5,600 additional housing units in the eastern part.

A municipal official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said those projects are only in their preliminary phases.
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Problem? Your boy Bibi was shook by Obama
 
gwb-trading said:
As stated in nearly every media outlet in Israel....

"The Obama administration has been the most hostile American administration to Israel since the formation of our country."

Can't put it more succinctly than that.
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not nearly hostile enough
 
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