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The Arab and European Vote on the UN's Jerusalem Resolution
(JNS.org) Israel Kasnett - Dr. Yoel Guzansky, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies, said the Saudis "have other priorities and while the Palestinians are not of major interest, they do pay lip service to the Palestinian cause and the Jerusalem issue." Even though the Saudis backed the UN resolution, they didn't make a lot of noise over it. The same behavior was true for the rest of the member nations of the Saudi-based Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. This could indicate Saudi Crown Prince Salman's "desire to get closer to U.S. President Donald Trump." For Ron Prosor, Israel's former ambassador to the UN, Arab support for the Jerusalem resolution is less concerning than the hypocrisy of European countries that supported the measure. "They say they are really worried over the announcement on Jerusalem since it will create instability. This is a decision by the U.S. and the Europeans decide to go to the GA (General Assembly). When the Russians vetoed everything regarding Syria, did the French or the British go to the GA? The answer is absolutely not! And until 1967, anyone could visit eastern Jerusalem, except for Jews. The Europeans supported that wholeheartedly." CNN's Jake Tapper quoted a statistic from UN Watch that between 2012 and 2015, the UN adopted 97 resolutions specifically criticizing an individual country, and Israel was the target of 83 of them. "Is Israel truly deserving of 86% of the world's condemnation, or possibly is something else afoot at the United Nations?" he asked.