JERUSALEM— Simply hours earlier than the United Nations Security Council is slated to vote on an alleged anti-Israel decision pushed by Algeria to impose an finish on the Jewish state’s warfare of self-defense towards Hamas, the Biden administration has gone silent about the way it will vote.
The irony of the notoriously anti-Israel Algeria devising the decision recollects the witty line of the late Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., Abba Eban, who mentioned, “If Algeria launched a (U.N.) decision declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it might go by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”
The proposed decision has triggered outrage from a number of quarters, together with a number one Republican U.S.senator.
The proposed decision has triggered outrage from a number of quarters, together with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. (ALLISON BAILEY/Center East Photographs/AFP through Getty Photographs)
“This decision is only one of a number of assaults on Israel being deliberate on the United Nations, meant to preemptively and completely undermine the incoming Trump administration and Republican Congress,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, instructed Fox Information Digital.
“I’ll work with my Republican colleagues and with President Trump to take no matter steps are essential to undo these measures, together with basically reevaluating our relationship with the U.N. and the Palestinians, broadly chopping help, imposing sanctions on particular officers accountable for these measures, and countering governments and NGOs pushing or implementing them,” he mentioned.
Fox Information Digital reported final week that U.N. consultants believed Biden’s administration would possibly search to replicate Obama’s parting shot at Israel, during which he did not veto an anti-Israel decision within the closing weeks of his administration.
Simply hours earlier than the United Nations Safety Council is slated to vote on an alleged anti-Israel decision pushed by Algeria to impose an finish on the Jewish state’s warfare of self-defense towards Hamas, the Biden administration has gone silent about the way it will vote. (John Lamparski/Getty Photographs)
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivered remarks on Monday on the world physique however didn’t tackle the pending draft decision. Nonetheless, she famous, “The US has exercised management and resolve in pursuing clear aims: Finish the warfare in Gaza — finish the warfare in Gaza by securing the discharge of hostages, whereas surging help to Palestinians, who didn’t begin and can’t finish this battle. Keep away from a broader regional warfare whereas forcefully countering Iran’s terrorist proxies and destabilizing actions, and demonstrating an ironclad, unprecedented dedication to Israel’s safety.”
Fox Information Digital approached the U.S. State Department and the United States mission to the U.N. for remark concerning the proposed draft.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivered remarks on Monday on the world physique however didn’t tackle the pending draft decision. (Stephani Spindel/Reuters)
Anne Bayefsky, President, Human Rights Voices in New York, instructed Fox Information Digital, “Allies of Hamas are licking their chops on the prospect of the outgoing Biden administration refusing to veto an Israel-bashing decision scheduled for adoption on the U.N. Safety Council on Tuesday.” She claimed, “For weeks, the USA has been busy massaging the phrases of a draft, leaked to information shops Al Jazeera and Al-Arabiya.”
“The U.N.-U.S. operation is to fake it is all about humanitarianism, when it’s precisely the other. It ensures to lengthen the warfare and the struggling of the hostages and ignore the precise root causes: Iran, antisemitism and the unlawful denial of Israel’s proper of self-defense. If adopted, it might be the fifth Safety Council decision President Biden has allowed to go since Oct. 7 that does not even condemn Hamas,” she mentioned.
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An IDF tank rolls by means of the Netzarim Hall in Gaza. (IDF Spokesman’s Unit)
Talking earlier on the Safety Council, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon, criticized the draft decision, stating, “Any decision that doesn’t situation the cease-fire on the discharge of the hostages means abandoning the 101 hostages to the hell of the terrorist monsters.”
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President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Picture/Evan Vucci)
Danon added, “The choice being promoted on this Council solely strengthens Hamas and terrorism and abandons the hostages. We can not permit the U.N. to tie the fingers of the State of Israel from defending its residents, and we is not going to cease preventing till we return all of the kidnapped women and men dwelling.”
