US President Barack Obama warned the Palestinian Authority of the potential consequences Friday in submitting their resolution on the condemnation of the settlements over the green line to the UN Security Council, Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat reported Saturday.
The resolution called settlements built beyond the green “illegal” and demanded that new construction halt immediately.
A senior member of the PLO Ahmad Majdalani told AFP Friday that “Yesterday Obama warned that he would take action against us, and this is not a new development. Since more than a week ago we have gotten American threats.”
Majdalani added that the matter was discussed in Palestinian Authority meetings Friday, and that Obama “If we push this in the Security Council several circles within the US congress reconsider the American aid that the Palestinian Authority receives from the United States.”
A Palestinian official, who withed his name from reporters, said that Obama reportedly warned Palestinian Authority President Abbas that the UN Security council resolution on the settlements could potential injure American-Palestinian Authority relations.
The officials said that Abbas told the US president that “The Palestinian request to stop the settlements are irreversible because it caused the collapse of the peace process. The Palestinian leadership and Palestinian people have made this decision and hold see it as a requirement.”
The US exercised its first UN Security Council veto Friday when it nixed the UN Security Council resolution.
The 14 other current members of the Security Council, including Britain, Germany and France, all backed the measure, submitted by Lebanon on behalf of the Palestinians after intensive American diplomacy failed to keep it from being considered.
The signing of the Camp David accords by Eretz Yisroel is the most senseless folly imaginable. We have ceded our security — lands, oil, settlements and airfields — for nothing but a piece of paper that can be torn up at any time. The “peace” we thought to gain is a bitter illusion, and the only result is that now we are infinitely weaker and the enemy infinitely more powerful.
The Rebbe.
http://www.truepeace.org/analysiscdavid.htm
Indeed #4, it was clear, concise information.
To number 3: The UN Security Council is comprised of five permanent members (US, UK, France, China, and Russia — the winners of WWII) in addition to ten elected Member States that serve two-years, on a rotating schedule. The five permanent members have veto power; this means that regardless, if one of the permanent members does not like the resolution that is subject to the vote, it can veto it and that’s that. Typically, China and Russia vote together and the three Western states vote in a bloc. In addition to the State Parties’ delegates to the Security Council, the… Read more »
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The USA can’t condemn Israel at the UN but can do so freely on National News
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-israeli-settlements-illegitimate/story?id=12952834