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Occasions under george w. bush alone the council passed six resolutions that israel opposed, including one that endorsed a plan calling for a complete freeze on settlements, including natural growth. let me read you the lead paragraph from a "new york times" story dated december 23rd. i quote -- "with the united states abstaining the security council adopt add resolution today strongly deploring israels handling of the disturbances in the occupied territories, which the resolution defined as inc...

Initial warm and fuzzy period just after the election is over this u.n. security council resolution regarding israel. i want to ask you this question. previous presidents have often held true to the rule, just one president at a time. do you believe it was wise and right for president-elect trump to wade into this dispute over the u.n. resolution, in effect going around the current president and telling israel, as youll remember in one of his tweets, to stay strong, january 20th is just a short ...

Problems that israel has and is causing, but that having been said, the resolution is completely consistent with the policy of the united states since 1967, when it comes to the occupation, and thats the policy of republican presidents as well as democrat presidents, and abstaining from the veto was an important step for the united states to send a signal to israel that the present status quo is unsustainable on the ground. >> lets listen to the israeli ambassador to the united states yesterday ...

Resolution. what has happened in four years, and did you have any notice that this was coming? >> well, i was there when susan rice gave that speech. i was listening to it very, very carefully, and she listed all of the reasons why the united states, this administration, was against settlement but they would never let the u.n. interfere and try to impose a solution, that there was only one solution, and that arose from direct negotiations between israelis and palestinians, and by abstaining on t...

Alone the council passed six resolutions that israel opposed including one that endorsed a plan calling for a complete freeze on settlements including natural growth. let me read you the lead paragraph from a "new york times" story dated december 23. i quote, with the united states abstaining the security council adopted a resolution today strongly deploring israels handling of the disturbances in the occupied territories which the resolution defined as including jerusalem. all of the 14 other s...

It comes in kerrys final three weeks in office and also in the wake of the united states abstaining from that u.n. resolution vote that demanded an end to the israeli settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem. secretary kerry also expected to argue against israels charge that the united states orchestrated the united nations vote. turkey and russia have agreed on a cease-fire plan in syria that will take effect at midnight. all part of an effort by the two countries to broker a peace dea...

Jake. we never told anybody how we would vote on the text of the resolution because we didnt know what the text would be until it was introduced by the egyptians. all the time we have conversations about different resolutions kicking around in the security council. we had not communicated how we would vote, we did not draft it. we didnt know what the text would be until it was put forward. the president didnt give her power to settlemecement it untiy of the resolution. we abstained because we be...

To advance a two-state solution on the ground. reporter: we expect a further defense of abstaining of the vote that did allow the resolution to pass the u.n. security council. the u.n. and the obama administration have been make an point that it is long-standing position of the united states that settlement activity beyond the 1967 borders undermines israels security. the administration also made the point it criticized the palestinians for failing to condemn terrorism. >> there is new reaction ...

Middle east. we know that from the very beginning this was something that president obama wanted to do. he made it clear within his first 100 days. a big disappointment for the administration. why now? why would the secretary of state lay out a vision, a plan? i mean, does it really matter? >> it doesnt matter at this point. trump has made it clear hes going to disrupt the peace negotiations. hes going to do iraq a different way, syria and the rest of it. this administration coming in is so far ...

Basically said this is like a big middle finger. you see whats going on. its getting deeper. israel is saying this idea that the white house is down playing everything. we hardly knew about this. they have evidence suggesting president obama directed this whole thing. >> well, silence is agreement and by the u.s. being silent and abstaining, they did agree to it and i think they helped orchestrate it. i think israel will release that information. its going to be very embarrassing. lets back up a...