Obama’s First UN Veto: US to Stop Security Council Calling Israeli Settlements ‘Illegal’

The Obama Administration is threatening to use its first ever UN Security Council veto this week when the Palestinian Authority moves forward with a non-binding resolution referring to the settlement construction in the Occupied Territories as “illegal.

The case for the illegality of conquering territory, depopulating it, and building government subsidized, religiously exclusive cities over the ruins does not appear to be in serious doubt over much of the world, but of course it is a topic of debate in Israel, and like any good topic of debate in Israel the most ignorant and hawkish position has become law of the land in the US, to the point that suggestions to the contrary are considered outrageous.

Which has left the administration offering to support a watered-down draft calling the settlements “not legitimate” instead, but skirting the question of legality.

Of course neither resolution means much of anything in the long run, settlements will still be built and the US will still throw money at Israel as fast as the Federal Reserve can print it. The fact that the Obama Administration is willing to throw its “first veto” at something as frivolous as a dispute of the Geneva Conventions’ ban on settlements, however, seems troubling.

25 thoughts on “Obama’s First UN Veto: US to Stop Security Council Calling Israeli Settlements ‘Illegal’”

      1. Is there anything more intelligent you can say? Or do you not understand that preventing human rights violations against Palestinians is racist? In your case, it would categorize you as a self-hating Jew, because criticizing racist Israeli policies has nothing to do with being anti-semitic. But making that excuse is to trivialize the suffering of those lost to the Holocaust.

  1. "seems troubling"????
    We are doomed as a nation until we can free ourselves from all the Israel-firsters in government. No president dare raise his finger with disapproval of the chosen people.

  2. What do they mean the settlements are “not legitimate”? Aren’t Israel and America married to each other?

  3. Might as well throw the "UN Veto log" onto the fire in the Middle East. Most Americans won't notice but you can be sure that the "Arab Street" will.

  4. So if the US is taking a negative position, i.e., that the settements are not illegal but instead illegitimate, what is the positive argument, i.e., what is the justification underlying Israel’s settlements?

  5. we cannot base our foreign policy on what is good for isreal and the hell with the rest of the world

  6. It would be nice if my government could stop serving a foreign country and think of its own citizens so I can travel abroad without being despised for being American.

    Israel first, all the rest of us second.

  7. The “first veto” problem wouldn't exist if the UN had the balls to bring forth resolutions for all current US violations of the Geneva Conventions.

  8. If only Americans knew that millions dead for no good reason–WWI WWII was all about for the creation a homeland for the chosen ones,

  9. Obama the weak vs Israel the destroyer of presidents. Never was a match there. False hope vs pure hatred. It's easy to see who's going to come out on top isn't it ? Of course Obama can expect some 'special favors' down the line for 'throwing the match' too. Rigged elections and rigged politics.

  10. Here' something new: big, bad communist china condemns the illegal action of israel whilst guardian of global freedom the United States supports the oppressor state Israel

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