(Los Angeles Times) Tracy Wilkinson - The Obama administration's decision to allow UN condemnation of Israeli settlement-building may backfire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he would not abide by the UN resolution and said his government was cancelling $7 million in contributions that Israel makes to UN organizations. He has also recalled ambassadors from countries that backed the resolution. "The consequences of this will, in fact, be precisely the opposite of whatever the administration intended," said Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Wilson Center who served as a Middle East advisor in three administrations. Rather than slow the settlement movement, the UN resolution, and the U.S. role in allowing it, may give Netanyahu and his supporters more reason to move ahead quickly.
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