UN Resolution 2334 approved by the Security Council on Friday, 23 Kislev condemns Israeli settlements and continued construction in “Palestinian territory” as a “flagrant violation” of international law. As US President Barak Obama prepares to step down from office following years of strained relations with the Netanyahu administration, he sent a clear message to Jerusalem, one that will have an impact long after he leaves office on January 20, 2017.
The resolution passed 14-0 as the United States abstained rather than use its veto power to block the bill as Jerusalem expected would be the case. There are fears that the resolution will leave persons involved in Jewish communities (Settlements) throughout Yehuda and Shomron open to legal action via the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Paragraph 5 calls for making a differentiation between the State of Israel and areas that were “occupied” in the Yehuda and Shomron in the 1967 Six Day War. This same paragraph calls on the international community not to assist these communities. The vote without a doubt strengthens the BDS movement against Israel as well, all those demanding that items manufactured in “occupied areas” are marked accordingly before being brought to the marketplace.
Israeli banks may fear being blacklisted for assisting settlements and doing business with communities in Yehuda and Shomron. Hence, some predict banks will be closing branches operating in those areas today. It might also be worse and the international community may simple ban the communities and all goods originating in them.
The Prime Minister’s Office released a statement that it hopes to work with the incoming Trump administration to minimize the damage of the bill. One possibility discussed is that with the US being the major funder of the UN, it can threaten against implementing sanctions against Israel.
Another ramification is that if Israel decides to build in areas included in the resolution is can be held liable for violating the Fourth Geneva Convention which addresses an occupying force trying to inhabit an area and such an act may be viewed as a war crime.
This may have opened the door for the PA (Palestinian Authority) to once again turn to the UN and apply for membership. At the very least, it makes it nearly impossible to negotiate with the PA for it will now demand nothing less than a Palestinian state on its terms.
Deputy Foreign Minister (Likud) Tzipi Hotevely, who is out of the country on a state visit, commented, “The Obama administration will not be able to cover-up its failures in Aleppo with this shameful decision against Israel. After being unsuccessful in combating a darker regime, he now turns against the only democratic nation in the Middle East”.
Bayit Yehudi party leader Naftali Bennet is confident the resolution “Will be thrown into history’s garbage can”, calling on Israel to declare Israeli Law throughout Yehuda and Shomron. In insists that continued retreats have not enhance Israel’s honor or position and we must remain firm in the face of international pressure and not surrender again, but to act in Israel’s best interests.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat added “America’s decision not to veto the vote in the UN reveals the true face of the Obama administration which is harming Israel and strengthening the evil which weakening the good.
“While thousands in our region in the Mideast are being slaughtered, the UN deals with Israel, the lone democracy in the Middle East is insanity, hypocrisy and wicked but it will not sway us from our goal. I call on President-elect Trump, who is soon entering his post, to repair the damage by moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a first step in clarifying America’s position that it is emphatic in its support for standing at Israel’s side.
“At the same time, I encourage the President-elect to initiate a process of regional security cooperation against Iran, ISIS, Hamas and all terrorist organizations and their supporters around the world. The message of the new administration to the UN to all the nations of the world; those who are with uys will benefit and those who fight us will lose!”
Agriculture Minister (Bayit Yehudi) Uri Ariel explained “The decision is made and it is not up to us to react and I call on annexing Yehuda and Shomron.
MK (Machane Tzioni) Tzipi Livni and many members of the left-wing feel that the recent event to find a way to legalize 42 homes in Amona contributed in a large way to turning the US against us and this resulted in President Obama’s decision to abstain. She adds it is clearly time for PM Netanyahu to be replaced, blaming him for deteriorating relations between Israel and the US.
The left-wing is blaming Amona and PM Netanyahu for straining relations with Obama during his term in office, particularly with the Iran deal with the US and most recently, with Amona. The Channel 2 TV News Meet the Press program announced on motzei Shabbos that they polled Israelis to determine how they view PM Netanyahu’s handling of Amona: 56% responded ‘not good’, 33% ‘good’ and 11% ‘don’t know’.
The right-wing explains that the vote simply shows the “True face” of the outgoing president, who has shown utter disrespect for PM Netanyahu during visits to Washington and has not followed tradition by being a true ally of Israel; America’s most trusted ally in the Mideast and the only true regional democracy .
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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obumma was is and will be an anti-semitie.I knew from his history from college of where is he was heading for. May he
suffer everyday of what is left of his miserable life. All our liberal friend vote for this creep.
Quite possibly. In much of the world, and among left-wing American legal scholars, United Nations resolutions are considered legally binding (and incorporated into American law under the concept of customary international law which is in the Federal constitution). Conservative legal scholars do not regard UN resolutions, and this may force the hand of the administration to support legislation to specifically ban federal courts from regarding UN resolutions as legally significant or perhaps even to withdraw from the UN (as many conservatives have been arguing).
It will also allow Republicans to brand the Democratic party as the party that supports Islamic terrorism, which may be a significant issue. It may prove very problematic for Jewish Democrats with largely Orthodox constituencies.
And it will make it more likely for President Trump to make a dramatic gesture towards Israel such s moving the embassy, recognizing Israeli ownership of all of Jerusalem or recognizing Israeli ownership of the Golan Heights, and with the mess in Syria, adopting a general “we wash our hands of you” policy towards the Islamic civil war involving several sides all of which are anti-American and anti-Jewish (and since the US is now energy independent, the US can easily afford to do so).
SHAME ON PRES HUSSEIN OBAMA!! AT THE UN IT WAS SEEN HOW IT IS A GANG OF THE WORLD TEAMING UP TO BULLY THE SAMLL ONE JEWISH STATE IN HISTORIC ISRAEL / JUDEA! AND THE OPENLY KNOWN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATING DICTATORSHIPS HEAD COMMITTEES AS HUMAN RIGHTS AND SIT ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL AS WELL TO “PASS JUDGEMENT” ON THE WORLD!
WHO MADE THIS RULE THAT THE US, ENGLAND, FRANCE, RUSSIA AND CHINA RULE THE WORLD?!
WAS THE UN TO MEAN WHERE A MAJORITY OF DICTATORSHIPS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS SIT THEY DECIDE LAW FOR THE WORLD?!
PSALMS 83 OPENLY DESCRIBES KING DAVID DESRIBING HOW ISHMAEL AND EDOM AND THE REST OF NATIONS TEAM UP AGAINST ISRAEL TO ERASE ITS NAME BUT THAT THESE ENEMIES THEMSELVES SHALL BE DESTROYED.
LOOK AT JEWISH HISTORY AND SEE HOW ALL CHALLENGERS OF THE JEWS WERE THEMSELVES GONE IN THE DUST OF HISTORY AND RUIN WHILE THE JEWS HAVE MIRACULOUSLY RETURNED TO ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM AGAINST THE TRUE WILL OF THE WORLD. NO UN OR OTHER RESOLUTION CAN FIGHT G-DS WILL!!
I HOPE THE UNITED STATES WILL STILL BEBLESSED THOUGH IT STABBED ISRAEL IN THE BACK AT THE UN WHERE THEY ARE WOLVES AGAINST THE ONE JEWISH STATE!
SHAME – OUR WESTERN EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN NATIONS EVEN VOTED TO DENY ANY JEWISH CONNECTION TO JERUSALEM OR HEBRON OR BETHLEHEM IN LINE WITH MOSLEM VIEWS EVEN THOUGH ITS AGAINST THE BIBLE VIEW IN THEIR EFFORTS TO TEAM UP AGAINST THE JEWS! In The End They Will See G-ds Judgement as the Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians, Romans, Greeks, INQUISITIONERS (SHAME ON SPAIN AT THE UN!) (where is the large Spanish empire now?), Nazis and Communist Soviets have all dispeared in the dust of history!
obumma you who hates HASHEM will enjoy untold suffering. The intelligent know who you were when you seat 20 years in wrights shtung and said you never heard him say a bad things.
May you over dose on your next drugs