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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 israel's handling of the disturbances in the occupied territories, which the resolution defined as including jerusalem. all of the 14 other security council members voted in favor." my friends that sto...

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 you'll remember in one of his tweets, to stay strong, january 20th is just a short time away? was that wise? >> well, i think -- i think both of these men, mr. trump and mr. obama, a...

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 that's 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. >> let's listen to the israeli ambassador to the united states yesterday speaking on andrea mitchell's show, in effect, issues a threat to the united states. let's listen ...

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 this resolution the obama administration has basically backtracked and negated its own long-standing ...

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 israel's handling of the disturbances in the occupied territories which the resolution defined as including jerusalem. all of the 14 other security council members voted in favor. my friends, that story was not written last week. it was wr...