Israel will reassess ties with UN after an anti-settlement resolution

For a second consecutive day on Sunday, the prime minister of Israel denounced President Barack Obama’s administration, publicly accusing it of having orchestrated Friday’s U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Jewish settlements in occupied territories, according to the New York Times.

“We can not stand in the way of this resolution as we seek to preserve a chance of attaining our long-standing objective of two states living side by side in peace and security”, she said.

Shapiro was summoned on 25 December 2016.

The Security Council on Friday voted 14-0 on a resolution condemning Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory as a “flagrant violation” of global law the have “no legal validity”.

A resolution needs nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States, France, Russia, Britain or China to be adopted.

The UN security council decreed Israel should halt all settlement expansion after Barack Obama’s outgoing U.S. administration refused to veto the resolution on Friday.

The UN Security Council demands that Israel halt settlements, in a resolution adopted after the USA refrained from vetoing the contentious measure.

The resolution was put forward by New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal.

In a statement on Friday, Kerry said that the USA acted with one goal and that was to “preserve the possibility of the two state solution”.

Indonesia supported the resolution, calling on the two countries along with worldwide communities to start negation again.

It is the first resolution the Security Council has adopted on Israel and the Palestinians in almost eight years.

Dermer argued that despite that abstention, it was the Obama administration that orchestrated the vote, calling it “outrageous” and “shameful”. Joe Manchin said in a statement on his website. The US had vetoed a similar draft resolution in 2011, saying it would further hinder Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Some congressional Republicans, including Sens.

Map of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. “Obama wants to force his policy on Trump before he can influence these countries”, said the official.

Trump also condemned the United Nations vote Saturday, taking to Twitter to say it “will make it much harder to negotiate peace”. He tweeted, “things would be different” after he takes office on January 20.

“Ambassador, what’s the evidence that the United Nations is behind this gang-up?”

The resolution says Israel’s settlements on Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, have “no legal validity”.