“We don’t expect much from Abu Mazen”, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon told reporters on Monday, referring to the Palestinian leader by his nickname.
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Previous efforts to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace have left a bad taste for the Obama administration, most notably a frenetic attempt by Secretary of State John Kerry that collapsed in 2014.
The Palestinian high court in the Fatah-led West Bank put off its ruling until October 3, only five days before the scheduled date for the elections.
The United States has objected to continuing Israeli settlement activity in Arab lands, which Obama sees as making an permanent peace agreement all the more hard.
Many analysts say Palestinian frustration with the Israeli occupation and settlement building in the West Bank, the complete lack of progress in peace efforts and their own fractured leadership have helped feed the unrest.
“In this case, Israel is making no major strategic decision to attract this level of aid-and certainly not one over the Palestinian-Israeli or the broader Arab-Israeli conflicts”, Telhami said.
Palestinians have killed least 33 Israelis and two visiting Americans in the attacks, Reuters reported.
Israel has also come under repeated criticism for failing to carry out due process in response to alleged and actual attacks, particularly in regard to the apparent extrajudicial executions of Palestinians who did not pose a threat when they were killed.
“There’s no ultimate military victory to be won, we’re going to have to pursue the hard work of the diplomacy that aims to stop the violence and deliver aid to those in need”, Obama told the General Assembly.
Mr Obama’s efforts to bring about an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement have failed over the almost eight years he has been in the White House, with the latest push by US Secretary of State John Kerry collapsing in 2014. He could issue a set of “parameters”, similar to those laid out by President Clinton in 2000. They are still the parameters that are often spoken of today. He says Obama will continue to be an influential voice after he leaves office.
May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, spoke with The Algemeiner a day after 88 USA senators sent a letter to Obama urging him to veto any one-sided resolutions regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the remainder of his time in office.
For his part, Obama demonstrated that despite being labeled an anti-Israel president who was forced again and again to prove he wasn’t an anti-Semite, he authorized, yes, the largest and most generous military aid package that the USA has given any nation, at any time. Netanyahu hit back, saying that the complainers made Israel look “ungrateful”.
“This is an obsession with Israel and it must end”, Danny Danon, Israel’s envoy to the United Nations, said in a statement following Ban’s address.
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Before the ink was dry, the prime minister’s many critics in Israel decried the bargain that he agreed to, arguing that if he hadn’t repeatedly picked a fight with the leader of the free world, he could have secured a bigger pledge of assistance.
