Netanyahu continues to act like he's our daddy. Not everybody is buying it, here below is a segment of an alternative view from Israel.
It's the Settlements, Stupid: Security Council Failure Is Entirely Netanyahu's
A solid majority of the countries that voted for the UN Security Council resolution are not anti-Israeli or anti-Semitic. The message of their vote was simple: It’s the settlements, stupid.
The Security Council resolution reveals once again how clear and sharp international consensus is against the settlements. It’s not just Obama. The right-wing government of Britain under Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson voted for it. So did the right-wing governments of Spain and Russia, under Netanyahu’s good friend President Vladimir Putin, and China, which Bennett and other ministers say doesn’t care about the Palestinians but only about Israeli high-tech, and New Zealand, the head of whose right-wing government, Bill English, attacked his country’s foreign minister in 2003 for embracing Yasser Arafat.
The prime minister is certainly taking comfort in the fact that he managed to bring around to his side the person who in another month will be president of the U.S. It is not certain this is something for him to be proud of. Netanyahu took Donald Trump for a ride and caused him his first diplomatic failure. Other than the president of Egypt, no other leader of a country on the Security Council took Trump into consideration.
read more: It's the settlements, stupid: Security Council failure is entirely Netanyahu's
It's the Settlements, Stupid: Security Council Failure Is Entirely Netanyahu's
A solid majority of the countries that voted for the UN Security Council resolution are not anti-Israeli or anti-Semitic. The message of their vote was simple: It’s the settlements, stupid.
The Security Council resolution reveals once again how clear and sharp international consensus is against the settlements. It’s not just Obama. The right-wing government of Britain under Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson voted for it. So did the right-wing governments of Spain and Russia, under Netanyahu’s good friend President Vladimir Putin, and China, which Bennett and other ministers say doesn’t care about the Palestinians but only about Israeli high-tech, and New Zealand, the head of whose right-wing government, Bill English, attacked his country’s foreign minister in 2003 for embracing Yasser Arafat.
The prime minister is certainly taking comfort in the fact that he managed to bring around to his side the person who in another month will be president of the U.S. It is not certain this is something for him to be proud of. Netanyahu took Donald Trump for a ride and caused him his first diplomatic failure. Other than the president of Egypt, no other leader of a country on the Security Council took Trump into consideration.
read more: It's the settlements, stupid: Security Council failure is entirely Netanyahu's