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Abstaining instead of using its veto power, breaking with decades of tradition in protecting americas closest middle east ally in the u.n. president-elect donald trump had demanded the u.s. veto the resolution, afterward he responded to the move tweeting in part, as to the u.n., things will be different after january 20 9. in other news actress carrie fisher was rushed to the hospital on landing. fisher better known as her role in the "star wars" movie. im elizabeth prann in washington, d.c. n...

Tonight, the obama administration is defending its controversial decision to abstain from a u.n. vote condemning israeli settlement m activity. elise, theres a lot of diplomatic and political intrigue surrounding all this. youre supposed to have one president at a time. it doesnt sound that way today. >> it was high drama tonight at the u.n., as a dispute over peace, politics, and a role over the u.s. presidency came to a head, sending shockwaves through israel, raising questions about a critica...

Averting a potential clash between the future and current u.s. presidents over israel. >> we will have to wait and see what the results of the consultations are to see if the text moves forward. >> it demands israel immediately and completely cease settlement activities calling it a flagrant violation under international law. cnn learned that president obama was prepared to let the resolution pass, either by abstaining or voting in favor of it. the u.s. has traditionally seen jewish settlements ...

And also to the settlement policy. president obama has long held that the settlements were an impediment to peace. you remember secretary of state john kerry trying to get a peace deal between israelis and palestinians, spent many months doing that and the settlements were issues that held up. for sam power, ambassador power, to say the u.s. wasnt supporting the resolution by abstaining i think -- look, by allowing the resolution to go through its very significant and a rare -- not unprecedented...

The israeli government calling on donald trump to intervene ahead of a resolution vote. im joined by elise labott. elise, good evening. thank you for coming on tonight. its been an extraordinary day settling around a u.n. vote in israel. tell us about what happened. >> basically, don, the u.s. has been planning to vote on this u.n. resolution, the u.n. security council resolution condemning the settlement activity illegal. usually the u.s. for years has kind of protected israel at the u.n. secur...

Xfinity, the future of awesome. this is a fox news alert for you, the u.n. security council is demanding a israel cease all activities with the u.s. abstaining from that vote. >> what we just witnessed was a dramatic shift in u.s. policy. the united states for the first time now in almost four decades deciding they would not use their veto power in a security council vote on a resolution addressing the issue of is raily settle me

Resolution pass either by abstaining or by voting yes. and for weeks the israelis have been urging the administration, imploring them in fact dont do this. and when they realized that this was going ahead, they warned the administration. an israeli official telling me they said to the administration, listen, if you are going to go ahead and do this, well have no choice but to reach out to president elect trump and ask him to intervene this some way. and that is exactly what they did. i understan...

>> a lot of people would argue thisesolution also isolates israel, moves to that end. >> yes. this if anything gives false hope to palestinians. it doesnt change our policy. it wont change in a few weeks, well have returned to what our position of strong support of israel has been for 40 years. it will give false hope to palestinians. they will think that this gives them claims to something. it could lead to more violence and showing this kind of moral cowardice and abstaining on this vote, not ...

Presidents, trump has jumped into both feet into one of the most difficult foreign policy issues for any president, the israeli-palestinian conflict. the president-elect has been working the phones, calling world leaders to scuttle an anti-israel resolution at the u.n. >> reporter: just hours before the u.n. security council was set to vote on a resolution, calling for israel to stop building settlements, calling them a violation of international law, the ballot was abruptly called off. cnn lear...

New era in terms of the relations with israel. it seems obvious the way the israeli government is already looking, theyre looking to president-elect trump. they talked to him throughout this process and urged him to do what he could to avert this. he was able to pull it yesterday but not today. too many of those countries on the security council wanted to see this introduce ed and it passed with u.s. abstaining. we have palestinian reaction. the palestinian prime minister saying "this is a victo...