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UN Ambassador Danon: Obama Aides Know UN Mideast Resolution Won't Work
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Most of those around President Barack Obama understand that a U.S.-initiated resolution at the UN Security Council to lock in parameters of an Israeli-Palestinian agreement will not contribute to the diplomatic process, Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon told the Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. Despite media reports about a presidential policy speech on the Mideast or a U.S.-backed or initiated Security Council resolution, "We are not seeing any signs of this in New York....The Americans are asking themselves if this would contribute or not to the process. The majority of those around the president understand that a decision like this would not contribute to the process." Danon also said he felt that if the Palestinians went ahead with plans to bring an anti-settlement resolution to the Security Council, the U.S. would likely veto it. Paradoxically, Danon pointed out that because the French diplomatic initiative is still in play, additional states will not want to support an anti-settlement resolution "because there is another process." Danon added that Israel was doing "quiet work" promoting its candidacy for one of the 10 rotating seats on the UN Security Council in 2019-2020. "Even if we lose, it will not be horrible. Canada lost, and is running again in 2019....Our approach has to be that we are a state in the UN like all states."