(New York Times) - The U.S. Tuesday vetoed a Security Council resolution, backed by Islamic and nonaligned nations, demanding that Israel back off its threat to deport Arafat. Eleven Council members voted in favor of the measure, while Britain, Germany, and Bulgaria abstained. U.S. UN Ambassador John Negroponte said the resolution failed to include "a robust condemnation of acts of terrorism; an explicit condemnation of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Aksa Martyrs Brigades as organizations responsible for acts of terrorism; and a call for the dismantlement of infrastructure, which supports these terror operations." Israeli UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman said after the vote, "This was a resolution which in a very macabre way criticized the victims of terror rather than the perpetrators of terror."
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