Posted on 11/01/2016 6:54:40 AM PDT by 444Flyer
Fears grow of a final days presidential ambush at the U.N.
The Middle East has few bright spots these days, but one is the budding rapprochement between Israel and its Sunni Arab neighbors, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, thanks to shared threats from Iran and Islamic State. Now the Obama Administration may have plans to wreck even that.
Israeli diplomats gird for the possibility that President Obama may try to force a diplomatic resolution for Israel and the Palestinians at the United Nations. The White House has been unusually tight-lipped about what, if anything, it might have in mind. But our sources say the White House has asked the State Department to develop an options menu for the President’s final weeks.
One possibility would be to sponsor, or at least allow, a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction, perhaps alongside new IRS regulations revoking the tax-exempt status of people or entities involved in settlement building. The Administration vetoed such a resolution in 2011 on grounds that it “risks hardening the position of both sides,” which remains true.
But condemning the settlements has always been a popular way of scoring points against the Jewish state, not least at the State Department, and an antisettlement resolution might burnish Mr. Obama’s progressive brand for his postpresidency.
Mr. Obama may also seek formal recognition of a Palestinian state at the Security Council. This would run afoul of Congress’s longstanding view that “Palestine” does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood, including a defined territory and effective government, though Mr. Obama could overcome the objection through his usual expedient of an executive action, thereby daring the next President to reverse him.
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Don't mess with Israel!
Genesis 12:3
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Obama and the Klinton Mafia can do anything and everything they want to try to Israel, HOWEVER, absolutely NOTHING is going to happen to Israel that the Most High God of Heaven and Earth does not allow. If it meets with God’s Will and means for Israel, it will happen. If it does not meet what God wants to be accomplished for Israel, it will not happen. I am not one tiny, tinny Winnie bit worried about what is aimed at Israel. GOD and GOD only will decide what is going to happen to Israel. So, no worries about Israel. God is going to handle everything concerning Israel.
The Magic Negro knows what’s best for the M.E. What an arrogant buffoon. Whatever he touches turns into excrement. Just watch.
The Magic Negro knows what’s best for the M.E. What an arrogant buffoon. Whatever he touches turns into excrement. Just watch.
WSJ in CYA Mode.
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It’s time for the release of all the e-mails.
Oh yeah!
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