Biden betrayed Israel in 2016 UN vote

 Edward Davis:

Those of Israel’s friends, tempted to vote for Joe Biden, should remember that Vice President Joe Biden played a crucial part in pushing through the notorious U.N. Resolution 2334, which declared that Jews in east Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria have no right to live there. The Obama administration abstained, which was betrayal enough. Even worse, Biden used his power over Ukraine to force Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to support the resolution.

The diplomatic assault against Israel topped the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of  “2016 Top Ten Worst Global Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Incidents”:

The most stunning 2016 U.N. attack on Israel was facilitated by President Obama when the U.S. abstained on a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel for settlement construction.  It reversed decades-long U.S. policy of vetoing such diplomatic moves against the Jewish State. *** The resolution, in effect, identifies Jerusalem’s holiest sites, including the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, as “occupied Palestinian territory.”  It also urges U.N. members “to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967,” effectively endorsing BDS.  U.S. Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) echoed the sentiments of many Democrats and Republicans, labeling the resolution “destructive and irresponsible”, and as seeking “to isolate and delegitimize Israel”.  “U.S.’ actions were completely unacceptable, and reckless.” 

We later learned that Vice President Biden was a driving force behind America’s betrayal of its long-standing ally. He engaged in a behind-the-scenes campaign to help the U.N. pass the resolution. To that end, Tablet reported that Biden pressured Ukraine to turn against Israel: 

A wealth of evidence is now emerging that, far from simply abstaining from a U.N. vote, which is how the Administration and its press circle at first sought to characterize its actions, the anti-Israel resolution was actively vetted at the highest levels of the U.S. Administration, which then led a pressure campaign—both directly and through Great Britain—to convince other countries to vote in favor of it.

Tablet has confirmed that one tangible consequence of the high-level U.S. campaign was a phone call from Vice President Joseph Biden to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, which succeeded in changing Ukraine’s vote from an expected abstention to a “yes.” According to one U.S. national security source, the Obama Administration needed a 14-0 vote to justify what the source called “the optics” of its own abstention.

Obama, Biden, and their U.N. allies essentially labeled as illegal aliens hundreds of thousands of Jews living in their indigenous homeland -- but not illegal aliens deserving of amnesty. 

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This is more evidence of how unintelligence Obama and Biden in dealing with the Palestinian situation in Israel.  Their whole Middle East policy was a cluster f***.  They wasted time and resources in trying to appease the Palestinians and the Iranians.  They blamed Israel for the destabilization that these two brought to the region.  The Iran deal was one of the dumbest in American history and this US deal was a betrayal of a real ally to appease a bunch of terrorists who are unappeasable.