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UN Resolution Is Not Balanced
(New York Daily News) Dennis Ross - The UN Security Council resolution on Israel creates the veneer of balance by referring to the need to stop terror and incitement, but of course it never names the Palestinians. Moreover, the resolution criticizes only Israel and asks nothing of the Palestinians. Does this resolution create a precedent? It is hard to see how. President-elect Trump was clear about his opposition to it and has already tweeted in response to the resolution that things will be different in his administration. Even in UN terms, the fact that the resolution was considered under Title 6 and not Title 7 means it cannot serve as a predicate for imposing sanctions later on. The writer, a counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, was a special assistant to President Obama from 2009 to 2011.