4 Things to Know About the Dec. 23 UN Resolution Against Israel
Some contend President Obama orchestrated this move himself, pressuring nations to vote against Israel
According to the Times of Israel Monday, Israel's ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer said in a CNN interview that it is "an old story that the United Nations gangs up against Israel. What is new is that the United States did not stand up and oppose that gang-up. And what is outrageous is that the United States was actually behind that gang-up."
Similarly, in a Sunday CNN interview, Netanyahu spokesman David Keyes said "We have ironclad information, frankly, that the Obama administration really helped push this resolution and helped craft it, from sources internationally and sources in the Arab world."
Vice President Biden was also apparently in on this, pressuring Ukraine to vote for the resolution when they were considering abstaining, according to the Jewish magazine Tablet. The Obama administration wanted "the optics" of a unanimous vote.
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According to an unnamed source whom Tablet called a "highly-placed figure within the Israeli government with strong connections to Ukrainian government sources," the Americans directly pressured the Ukrainian delegation at the UN and Ukrainian President Poroshenko in Kiev (Ukraine's capital) to vote against Israel.
"That Biden told them to do it is 1000% true,' the source affirmed," the report said.
Whether this is all true remains to be seen.
