(Washington Post) Anne Gearan - The Trump administration is strongly condemning what it calls a systemic anti-Israel bias at the UN, arguing Friday that UN monitoring of West Bank settlement activity allowed by the Obama administration is the latest example. Michele Sison, the No. 2 U.S. diplomat at the UN, spoke against the unfair singling out of Israel during a closed session of the UN Security Council on Friday. There and elsewhere, the Trump administration is arguing that the UN has allowed valuable time and attention to be hijacked for bashing Israel. "There can be no moral equivalency between the building of homes and murderous terrorism," Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon said Friday. "The only impediment to peace is Palestinian violence and incitement. This obsessive focus on Israel must end."
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