In Major Reversal Obama Agrees to Rebuke Israel in UN Security Council
(Foreign Policy) — The U.S. informed Arab governments Friday that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body “does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity,” a move aimed at avoiding the prospect of having to veto a stronger Palestinian resolution calling the settlements illegal.
But the Palestinian’s rejected the American offer following a meeting late Wednesdy of Arab representativs and said it is planning to press for a vote on its resolution Friday, according officials familar with the issue. The decision to reject the American offer raised the prospects that the Obama adminstration may cast its first ever veto in the U.N. Security Council.
Still, the U.S. offer signaled a renewed willingness to seek a way out of the current impasse, even if it requires breaking with its key ally and joining others in the council in sending a strong message to Israel to stop its construction of new settlements. The Palestinian delegation, along with the council’s Arab member Lebanon, have asked the council’s president this evening to schedule a meeting on Friday. But it remained unclear whether the Palestinian move today is simply a negotiating tactic aimed at extracting a better deal from the United States.
Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, outlined the new U.S. offer in a closed door meeting on Tuesday with the Arab Group, a bloc of Arab countries from North Africa and the Middle East. In exchange for scuttling the Palestinian resolution, the United States would support the council statement, consider supporting a U.N. Security Council visit to the Middle East, the first since 1979, and commit to supporting strong language criticizing Israel’s settlement policies in a future statement by the Middle East Quartet.
The U.S.-backed draft statement — which was first reported by Al Hurra — was obtained by Turtle Bay. In it, the Security Council “expresses its strong opposition to any unilateral actions by any party, which cannot prejudge the outcome of negotiations and will not be recognized by the international community, and reaffirms, that it does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity, which is a serious obstacle to the peace process.” The statement also condemns “all forms of violence, including rocket fire from Gaza, and stresses the need for calm and security for both peoples.”
U.S. officials were not available for comment, but two Security Council diplomats confirmed the proposal. The Arab Group was scheduled to meet this afternoon to formulate a formal response to the American offer. Council diplomats said that the discussions were fluid and that there was still the possibility that the U.S. draft would be subject to further negotiations. They said it was also not yet certain that the U.S. offer would satisfy the Arab Group, and that the U.S. may be forced to veto the Palestinian resolution.
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WTF???
This makes me SICK! It makes me scream!
This man is a traitor, an islamic sympathizer pig!
There I said it!
GOD..help us…..
obama the destroyer is a two faced islamic who is selling the usa down the river so why not israel. anyone who trusts obama and he den of liars thieves and whores is stupid
Maybe they will kill us last.
After this and Egypt, the Arabs can be expected to try to play the Obama Administration like a trout.
/why did I say “try” ?
Absolutely and utterly disgusting.
Barack Hussein, Islamofascist pig.
Absolutely and utterly disgusting.
Only once in my life have I hated someone so much that I prayed for his end – it worked!
If…the POS dares to vote against Israel – I am going to prayer the second time.
In and of itself — and, so far — this doesn’t indicate that BHO is an Islamic sympathizer.
This was a proceedural tactic, designed to save face for the Obama Administration by avoiding having to cast a veto.
In other words, Obama is perfectly willing to sell Israel down the river to make himself look good.
The rest has yet to be proven.
When does this president BEGIN to represent the hearts and minds of the people of the United States of America?
We all need to *continually* remind the O-bots as to the damage THEY have done by electing this traitor.
You would think, with today’s technology, that we could vote for these things instead of these melon-heads doing whatever they please.
Of course I speak in jest – try to contact one of your reps or senators – if you’re not a big $ donor, you are dismissed.
TERM LIMITS NOW !!!
I still say that the Tea Party would get a lot more cooperation from the Obama regime if they announced “a peaceful nuclear program” of their own.
He has no respect for someone who cant cause any physical damage.
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Freaking traitor, I despise him.
Obama – The closet raghead. Time to run him out of office.
He did say in his book “when the political winds shift, I will stand with the Muslims”.
.. forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
Sorry, Lord I can forgive what has been done but
I cannot forgive Obama now, while he goes about at this very moment trying to destroy your people.
.. and that is just the way it is.
Piglet-U93
Obama is a Muslim and I am getting sick and tired of the idiots out there saying he’s a Christian.
He’s a fucking traitor, too.
God will have the final say in the end.
The political winds have not shifted and yet he already acts FOR them and stands with them, doesn’t he. So, what will he DO when the winds really do shift?
Barack Hussein needs to be impeached. He is reckless and dangerous.
Pray for Israel. This extremely bad man is out to destroy our ally.
As someone who has worked with the Israeli Army at the Lebanon border, this does not surprise me at all. Why your country elected such an inexperienced guy who has never been in the Military or been in a position of having to make life and death decisions is scary. I feel bad for many of you fighting the good fight. Obama thinks that by hugging the Arab world he is somehow embracing them to make concessions. He is only making them stronger in thinking Obama is weak.
I’ll support Israel when Jews start advocating for White America instead of doing their best to destroy us.
Anne,
I support Americans wishing to get away from Leftist idiots. Is that good enough?
Anne Weston.
You my dear, are a class one fool and a supreme idiot of Biblical proportion!
THE END!
Drill for oil in this country and we wont have to pander to anyone.
This Global Warming agenda is empowering all the worst people. Even if they pursue a strategy of wind and solar, there is still no reason not to drill in the US.
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I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised. We knew the Obama regime would come to this. We knew where his true sympathies lie. Israel now needs it’s few remaining friends more than ever. Stay strong, Israel. God bless and keep you.
Dangerous times, my friends.
Anne Weston:
So the Jews are in bed with Black America?
Please expound.
Thank you Katy.
There is a time to lead and a time to listen; the charlatan in office has done neither. As a result, radical Islam has never been stronger and Israel has never been more alone. There’s war coming, probably within a year.
Frankly Black americans have never stood with Jewish Americans even when Jews risk a lot in the 1950s to stand up for them during the civil rights movement. I have never seen any assistance from them for Israel, beyond the baptist christian community. Its very stab in the back antics.
… Proving once and for all that the U.N. is absolutely, positively worthless….
And that goes double for the Nobel prize…
Ok…we need to do something…DOESN’T ANYONE CARE WHAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC THINKS, FEELS, WANTS??? How can we allow them to get away with this crap? Jeremy, you worry about Black Americans standing with Jewish Americans…JEWS don’t stand with Jewish Americans! Most Jews I know are LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, and support the traitor to this day! How do we explain that!?
The United States simply can’t afford two more years of Obama!!
He must be impeached!!! In fact democrats have to go, and several republicans along with them.
When we get some strong people in the White House, and in the Congress, a lot of these uprisings in various places will stop. All this in your face Islam will slow way down. But they know there is a woose in the WH as most of his minions, and they have no respect for weakness.
He is really putting himself in a very very bad place by sipping from the cup of corruption with the Islamists against Israel.
Unfortunatly in the U.S most jews are liberal..and it pisses me off..but i cant hold their hand in the voting booth. They consistently vote against our own interests. Some even take pride in repeating anti-semitic comments using their jewish identity as some protection badge on college campuses to somehow give their views legitimacy. It pisses me off so much that I can’t explain it to you. Most Israeli Jews would probabaly find American Jewish views ridicoulous when it comes to national security.
He keeps appeasing and emboldening these blood thirsty bastards. It’ll be another arab-Israeli war before we know it. The arabs have forget just how bad the Jews will kick the crap out of them. It’ll make for some good war porn. My guess, they’ll want to get it on prior to our 2012 election. If a pro-israel president gets elected, we could do much to tip things in Israel’s favor. But, they all know, obama will not intervene.
Jews generally vote democrat and by helping put obam into office they have hurt Israel . God said “I will bless those who bless thee”. For those who may wonder… their are good Jews and bad Jews just as with any peoples. We must truly start to pray for America ,not just make the statement.
I just pray that Israel realizes this TRAITOR does NOT speak for the American people. I pray that once he is ousted in 2012 we can begin to repair the vital ally we have in Israel.
Sad that what the Obozo administration does is credited with being a policy of the United States of America when it is simply a policy of the Obozo Administration. Hello. Is this thing on? Is anybody out there in this country off their god damned cell phones or have their heads out of their asses? No. Too bad.
Utterly amazing. The amount of damage done to our relationship with Israel is staggering to say the least. Instead of doing the logical thing and strengthening our relationship with Israel, he desides to suck up to the Muzzies and they still freakin’ hate us. Great job Obozo.
@Jeremy
Don’t think for a minute that your only allies are the baptist Christians in this country. The Catholics have the backs of the Jewish people, if indeed it comes to that, as we did in WWII in a covert manner. I know that is not popular opinion, but yet history has been distorted in many ways, hasn’t it?
This is a religious war. Islam is hell bent on overcoming us all and forcing us to submit to their pagan god. They have been the enemy of God’s people for 1500 years.
Unfortunately, our usurper in chief is a muslim sympathizer. The rest of the world recognizes his incompetancy and duplicitousness-when will the Jewish population of the US recognize it as well? The Crusades will come again.
Wait, wait!!! But the settlements are illegal. Why should we veto a true statement at the UN?
@Sickof it: In what way are they illegal? If the country decides to build on their property, the UN has no right to say no. The land was won in a war that was started by the Arabs in 1967, remember?
So, according to your logic, we the US has no right to build houses in Texas. Or anywhere in the original colonies.
You, sir, are a moron.
“Obama promised that once he overcame some domestic issues, like the Health care reform, he would show the Muslim World how to deal with Israel.”
Says it all, too.
“This was a statement by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Nile-TV. It was made on the «Round table show».
Adul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, where the US President told him that He was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the step son of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympathetic towards the Muslim agenda.
Adul Gheit claimed Obama told the Arabs to show patience. Obama promised that once he overcame some domestic issues, like the Health care reform, he would show the Muslim World how to deal with Israel.”
Anne Weston is a white nationalist troll who will never support Israel.
Anne Weston = Fuck off.
Fuck on Fuck Off.
Anne Weston is completely right!
It has been the policy of the government of the United States since 1967, under presidents of both parties (including Reagan of course), that the settlements are illegal.
Granted that Bush sent a long way toward undermining that policy, but the core of the US position has remained.
Obama is in line with long-term US policy. Thank god he has the courage to stand up for what is right. Hopefully the Israelis will stop stealing Arab land, and begin to try to live in peace with their neighbors.
JoeCitizen says:
February 17, 2011 at 12:00 am
Oh my..two idiots in one night.
Yes Joe..why can’t those nasty Israelis live in peace with the neighbors who have been blowing up their children into little tiny bloody pieces for decades because your PRECIOUS UN voted to give them a state. A legal state. Which by the way has been Jewish land for thousands of years but then I would never expect a lefty unread dolt like you to understand history beyond 1989 when you were born because that’s when history began…right Joe?
Put the pot brownie down, change your underwear and go to bed you amoeba. nighty night!
oh look another antisemetic hitler who thinks israelis are evil.
Eff off NCII.
ncII says:
February 16, 2011 at 11:50 pm
In the world of morons…yes she is..
I had a Rabbi tell me the most horrific story I have ever heard and it has proven out to be the truth! This Rabbi told me that the Jews in Congress are all Communists!! Now, I suppose you can believe this or not but when you consider just who they are take a close look at those who are for “Gun Control”! The same ones were part of the Clinton administration, you know who they are, if you don’t just type into your favorite search engine “Jews in congress” and BINGO you’ll have the whole list!!!
did Reagan actually side with the muslim terrorists?
No so stop using him to bolster your ultraleft pablum.
Not all jews are communists except the democrat ones.
Can someone please direct Che the americant and Carlos the jackwagon to LGF please.
DohBiden, Yes you are right, the Jews in congress that are Communists are all Democrats!!!!
Fuck you Hussein raghead Obama, Fuck you Anne Weston, and fuck the rest of you RonPaultards sucking up to Obama and Muslims.
More proof that Obama is a Muslim
He has surrounded himself with Muslims and brought members of the Muslim Brotherhood into the White House.
-Obama quietly appoints Muslim Brotherhood to key posts
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/report-obama-quietly-appoints-muslim-brotherhood-to-key-posts
Muslims and the Muslim Brotherhood are infiltrating the US conservative Movement
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2011/02/american-conservative-unions-suhail.html
You people are clowns who need to 1) learn to spell before you can pretend to know history and 2) use your God-given brain for the reason it was intended-to think, not to automatically believe mythical Biblical fairy tales.
Israel should just empty the West Bank and expand.
Joe Dem:
You last name says it all dope that voted for the first Muslim POTUS because you don’t know jack shit about history or facts or anything but the color of a person’s skin.
God proclaimed the Israelis his people.
Go to hell!
When you have an ally who is attacked, you as an ally are supposed to respond TO THE ATTACKER.
We never did. Did we?
From day one the nation of Israel has been under attack.
… all the nations shall stand against you. Those who stand with you, I will save, those who stand against the children of God shall be thrown into the fires of Gehenna….
I stand with Israel.
Obama just signed on for the War against Israel.
When can we get this traitor out of office? We need to do it soon or Israel will be wiped off the face of the Earth.
I don’t want to face Gods wrath because of our Muzzie loving fraud in office.
Well, the man is consistent. H e refuses to secure the US border and votes against allowing Israel to have a relatively secure border.
This guy has to go along with all his marxist pals.
Sickofit, JoeCitizen, or any other Marxist troll,
By definition, Jewish habitats in Palestine cannot be “illegal” or “stolen.” This is because the Jews are the only true Palestinians, the indigenous people of Palestine. Terms like “settlement,” “illegal” or “stolen” can logically apply only to the habitats of the Arab settler-colonist invaders in Palestine, as Arabs are indigenous to the Arabian Peninsula and settler-colonists everywhere else.
This is so no matter what the U.N., international “law” or the U.S. government says.
Now you understand why Bammy didn’t want Canada on the Security Council
PROOF once again, the communist moslim USURPER supports the moslim terrorists and HATES Israel and the USA!
So why do people call his a moslim? Oh I don’t know, maybe because of his ACTIONS!
Does anyone think Obama is going to piss God off?
But Da Joos do tend to vote democrat so they made their own bed.
Also I cannot wait until 2012 to vote this clown out of office. I will be the first in line. In front of all of you people and if by chance you get there first, I will cut in line just to cast the first vote to get this clown out of office!
obama was voted in by a vast amount of afro-Americans, simply because he was ‘black’. A blind vote, with no concern of consequence, no background information….fuck all. And now America, unless you OPEN YOUR MOUTHS, and get this piece of SHIT out of office VERY FUCKING SOON, he will destroy your county, take away your civil liberties, and before you know it…..the
‘backward’ sharia law will be inrtoduced. You must educate the blinkered, who have NO FUCKING CLUE what’s really happening. How you have allowed a fucking LYING MUSLIM BASTARD become The President of the USA….. shit. He also wants to bring 80,000 muslim immigrants into America, who are uneducated, will have no home or job, and will sponge off the taxpayer and just plot and interbreed. And you will pay for it. In the early 70′s, 100,000 immigrant muslims came to the USA. There are now 9 M I L L I O N !!!!!
SO………W A K E T H E F U C K U P ! ! ! !
uh, hey guys, the us voted against this resolution in the UN….try to stay focused on the facts.
Try to stay focused on the facts.
After your side.
after my side? its true. all the comments are hysterical about something that isn’t even true