“To give you an idea of how appalling this resolution is, it declares that any Jew who lives in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, the Jewish quarter, inhabited for 1,000 years, is illegal, breaking international law, essentially an outlaw, can be hauled into the international criminal court and international courts in Europe, which is one of the consequences. The Jewish quarter has been populated by Jews for 1,000 years.
In 2012, running for re-election, Obama spoke at the meeting of AIPAC, the big Jewish lobby. He said, “Is there any doubt that I have Israel’s back?”
In 2016, in the final month of his 2 terms as president, Obama refuses to exercise veto against UN Security Council’s resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank, resulting in harsh criticism for “stabbing Israel in the back”.
Prime Minister Netanyahu stated that Israel is “encouraged by the statements of our friends in the United States, Republicans and Democrats alike, they (the US) understand that the Western Wall isn’t occupied territory”.
Trump says on Twitter, “As to the U.N., things will be different after January 20th.”
Read more at:
- http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/443332/obama-anti-israel-abstention-joins-america-united-nations-appalling-resolution
- https://onenewsnow.com/media/2016/12/24/obama-un-defy-trump-netanyahu-tweets-on-resolution
- http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/12/23/world/middleeast/ap-ml-israel-united-nations.html
- http://www.euronews.com/2016/12/26/israel-s-netanyahu-summonds-diplomats-over-un-resolution
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