“Even well-intentioned initiatives at the United Nations risk locking the parties into positions that will make it more hard to return to the negotiation table and make the compromises necessary for peace”.
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That said, the letter is largely symbolic.
Israel was not the only nation critiqued by Obama.
But the senators implored Obama to continue longstanding USA policy and make it known publicly that he will veto any “one-sided UNSC resolution that may be offered in the coming months”. All three legislators are seen as the future of the party, and all three consider themselves passionately pro-Israel. “I support the spirit of Sens”.
“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.
Cruz’s stance reflects an important shift on the right of the Republican party.
“Another nine Palestinians were arrested when Israeli forces raided their homes in the village of Issawiya in East Jerusalem”, the NGO added.
Obama’s meeting Wednesday with Netanyahu will likely be his last before leaving office, the White House said. The two-state solution was subsequently removed from the 2016 Republican party platform.
For years, the USA was seen by Israelis and Palestinians as the indispensable mediator and only power that could guarantee a two-state solution.
Israel has long relied on USA vetoes to avoid criticism at the Security Council for its many misdeeds in the occupied territories, and despite the suggestion that Obama is uncooperative, he’s vetoed everything, just like other presidents have.
And what is true in in the Middle East is true for all of us.
This week, 18-24 September, is the World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel.
Palestinians, many of them acting alone and with rudimentary weapons, have killed at least 33 Israelis and two visiting Americans in the attacks.
In April, 394 congresspeople – over 90% of the members of the House of Representatives – signed a similar letter calling on the president to veto any United Nations resolution that sought to impose a solution on Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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.
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Palestinian media described her as a teenager. Israel intercepted the drone, but it is viewed as a sign of the increasingly sophisticated equipment that Hamas militants are using. That could come in the form of a major speech or a U.S. -backed U.N. Security Council resolution – both moves that would increase pressure on Israel and that Netanyahu would be expected to oppose.
