President Barack Obama is about to withhold the US veto from a Palestinian-Arab motion due to be tabled at the UN Security Council condemning Israel for its settlement policy in the West Bank and Jerusalem, debkafile’s Washington sources report. If he does, he will be the first US president to let an anti-Israel motion go through the Security Council and building on the West Bank and even in the forty-year old suburbs of East Jerusalem would become illegal.
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Ynetnews.com ..Obama to withhold veto from Palestinian UN move to condemn Israeli settlements..Israel and the US are set for a collision if President Barack Obama stands by his refusal to veto a Palestinian-Arab motion due to be tabled at the UN Security Council condemning Israel for its settlement policy in the West Bank and Jerusalem debkafiles Washington sources report. If he did he would be the first US president to let an anti-Israel motion go through the Security Council building on the West Bank and even in the forty-year old suburbs of East Jerusalem would become illegal as would also municipal police and military actions in these places..