Susan Rice’s Illegitimate U.N. Folly

William A. Jacobson:

To call the performance of the Obama administration at the UN, through Ambassador Susan Rice, “folly” would be far, far too kind.

Mahmoud Abbas, despite repeated U.S. requests, insisted on pressing for a U.N. Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlement construction “illegal.” The U.S. vetoed the resolution.

Standing in isolation, all was good.

But the fact is that the U.S. was all too happy to sign onto a Presidential Statement from the President of the Security Council denouncing the “illegitimacy” of Israeli settlements. This proposed compromise was rejected by Abbas, despite a phone call from Obama. The U.S. was willing to throw Israel under the bus, but not all the way; throwing our friends only half-way under the bus is what passes for standing by our friends these days.

But it was far worse. The statement made by Susan Rice immediately after the vote was outrageously one-sided, the type of pandering to the worst elements in the world which has become a pattern for Obama’s foreign policy (emphasis mine):

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