Word that the Obama regime plans on condemning Israel in the UN Security Council has come as a shock to some Americans who continue to recognize Israel as one of the strongest and most valuable allies of the United States, both in the volatile Middle East, and in the entire world. Many analysts appear concerned that the move could rattle American relations with other American allies that may sense a pattern of abandonment by the Obama regime in favor of nations that are often hostile to American interests. The move to rebuke Israel represents one of the most significant foreign policy reversals yet to be undertaken by the Obama regime, although recent media reports suggest that the move is being reconsidered. The issue At the root of the current move to act against Israel in the United Nations is a resolution sponsored by the Palestinian Authority that condemns Israel for conducting itself as an autonomous nation with the right to allow settlements on its own land. Palestinians, like most in the Arab world, deny the right of Israel to exist as a nation and have worked through both violent and diplomatic means to pressure Israel to give up its land in exchange for promises of peace that some consider meaningless. The United States possesses veto power that it frequently uses to stymie efforts to harm Israel at the United Nations, but the Obama regime seems prepared to both allow and support the resolution. The spat Early last year, Obama pressured Israel’s hawkish Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to stop construction projects in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem. Netanyahu, finding support in the U.S. Congress, but not at the White House, alluded to the fact that no other nation on earth is chided for conducting ordinary business in its national capital. As noted by McClatchy, Israel and the Obama regime agreed to disagree, barely managing to avoid escalating tensions. As Haaertz reported last summer, the Obama regime tried to pressure Israel to halt settlement construction in the West Bank, another effort rebuffed by Netanyahu. The UN resolution Whether peeved by his inability to force Israel to cow tow to his demands, generally unconcerned about maintaining loyalty to important international allies, or specifically hostile toward the State of Israel, Obama has apparently instructed the regime’s ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice to support the resolution condemning Israeli policies allowing construction inside its own country. The Obama regime had hoped that the Palestinians could be placated with a statement from the Security Council calling the Israeli settlements “illegitimate” rather than a full-blown resolution that condemns Israel’s lawful right to build in its territory as “illegal.” According to the UK Telegraph, however, those hopes were dashed. Still, the Telegraph report suggests that the Obama regime is being pressured heavily by Congress to use the American veto before the council, a move that Obama presumably would detest as unilateral and failing to pressure Israel to quickly surrender to his so-called “two-state solution” in the region. Category:Home › Other • Pomegranates: A newly discovered superfood • Where did the joke why did the chicken cross the road come from and why is it funny? • Can mothers diagnosed with bipolar disorder make good parents? • Spiritual evolution of human consciousness • Tips for getting a college basketball scholarship • Living with Pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) • Caring for the caregiver • Technologys impact on society