(Council on Foreign Relations) Elliott Abrams - When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the UN General Assembly this week, America's UN Ambassador, Samantha Power, was not present. Rick Grenell, for years the spokesman at the U.S. Mission to the UN, tweeted that Power was instructed to stay away. To sit and listen to Netanyahu isn't endorsing his remarks, it is the politeness we owe an ally. A refusal to have the U.S. ambassador listen to his speech is damaging, hinting to anti-Israel delegations that the U.S. may be willing to let all sorts of anti-Israel measures go without opposition or criticism. The writer is a senior fellow for Middle East Studies at the CFR.
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