Settlements Resolution News Today

To further unfettered settlement construction that we fundamentally oppose. so we reject the criticism that this vote abandons israel. on the contrary. it is not this resolution that is isolating israel. it is the permanent policy of settlement construction that risks making peace impossible. virtually every country in the world other than israel opposes settlements. that includes many of the friends of israel, including the united kingdom, france, russia, all of whom voted in favor of the settl...

And forth over this u.n. resolution and exactly how it came to be with the israelis of course out there saying that the united states was behind it, that they have evidence to that effect. the israeli newspaper herretz reporting this was a meeting in washington where they talked to palestinian leaders and essentially said if this language is balanced, its all fine. we have not confirmed that reporting at this point. >> let me ask you about meetings on trumps schedule today. any significant or no...

For speech. we hope president-elect trump looking at this policy of the u.s. for 50 years against settlement building and understanding 67 borders are the demarcation line between peace and war. and that consolidating them helps the parties. erasing them like netanyahu government is doing harms the parties. we hope he will move those conditions. >> are you hopeful you will have a u.s. president capable? or givenhe tweets, it do not look like that? >> early in the campaign, he said he wanted to b...

Israel in a negotiation and an agreement. on the israeli side, israels already isolated in the muslim world, which is about a fifth of the worlds population now, in a few decades, it will be a third, and now the tactic followed by the prime minister of criticizing and doing something to the relationship with countries like britain and france and spain and new zealand risk undermining israel throughout the world. if i could just say, poppy, to my knowledge, i may be wrong, but i havent heard of a...

Unprecedented legislation to legalize settler outposts that the prime minister himself warnled could expose israel to action at the security council and even international prosecution. before deciding to support it. in the end we could not in good conscience protect the most extreme elements of the settler movement as it tries to destroy the two-state solution. we could not turn a blind eye to palestinian actions that fan hatred and violence. it is not in u.s. interests to help anyone on either ...

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...

Yet despite growing pressure the obama administration held a strong line against u.n. action -- any u.n. action. we were the only administration since 1967 that had not allowed any resolution to pass that israel opposed. in fact, the only time in eight years the obama administration exercised its veto at the united nations was against a one-sided settlement resolution in 2011. and that resolution didnt mention incitement or violence. lets look at what happened since then. since then there have b...

Would have been giving license to further unfettered settlement construction that we fundamentally oppose. so we reject the criticism that this vote abandons israel. on the contrary. it is not this resolution that is isolating israel. it is the permanent policy of settlement construction that risks making peace impossible. virtually, every country in the world other than israel opposes settlements. that includes many of the friends of israel, including the united kingdom, france, russia. all of ...

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...

Two-state solution. and both sides in this conflict must take responsibility to do that. we have repeatedly and emphatically stressed to the palestinians that all incitement to violence must stop. we have consistently condemned all violence and terrorism and we have strongly opposed unilateral efforts to delegitimize israel in international fora. we have made countless public and private exhortations to the israelis to stop the march of settlements. in literally hundreds of conversations with pr...