Posted on 07/10/2018 12:48:09 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
A series of maps of Judea and Samaria, focusing on the placement of Jewish communities and Israeli military facilities in the area, provoked a dramatic change in the Obama administration’s policies vis-à-vis Israel, a report by The New Yorker claims.
According to the report Monday, a presentation by then-Secretary of State John Kerry to President Barack Obama in the waning days of the administration ‘shocked’ the president into taking a more aggressive stance towards Israel, withholding America’s veto on a United Nations Security Council resolution critical of Israeli policies in Judea and Samaria.
The Obama administration, like its predecessors, had in the past backed a final status settlement negotiated by Israel and the Palestinian Authority and opposed unilateral actions regarding core final status issues. In this vein, the US had traditionally used its veto power on the Security Council to block resolutions directed against Israel.
In December 2016, however, the Obama administration permitted UNSC Resolution 2334 to pass – a measure which demanded Israel unilaterally freeze all construction in not only Judea and Samaria, but eastern Jerusalem as well.
The decision to abandon Israel at the Security Council – a significant departure from traditional US policy – after the president was presented with a series of maps collected at the behest of a senior State Department official, Frank Lowenstein.
The collection of maps, assembled in 2015 by Lowenstein and updated by the State Department in 2016, was presented to Obama and key advisers by Secretary of State John Kerry during a 2016 Oval Office meeting.
Obama administration adviser Ben Rhodes claimed the president was shocked by the maps showing the division of Judea and Samaria and the scope of Jewish settlement in the area.
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I’m shocked POTUS DJT has not yet released your birth records and mother’s passport and immigration records proving you to be the fraud you are.
Obama ‘shocked’ by settlement expansion>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Sheeeesh! Hope he doesn’t have a heart attack!
Yeah, well, Bammy aint President anymore, now. Is he?
“Yeah, well, Bammy aint President anymore, now. Is he?”
This is high on my Praise list.
Yeah but mosques sprouting up like poison mushrooms all across the fruited plain? He meant to do that.
Excellent, that really deserves its own thread.
Zero was shocked when he found out that Mike was a tranny.
Wut? His Royal Imbecility thought that Israel, a sovereign nation, needed HIS permission to open new settlements? I would be soooo pleased to learn that his shock triggered a fatal heart attack and that his cooling corpse was thrown to pigs to eat.
Pigs shouldn’t be forced to eat that.
Thanks Eleutheria5. **** Obama/Soetero and his fellow terrorists.
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