Biden fumbles attempt to please everyone with tepid response to Mideast violence
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Fourteen of the top panel’s 15 members had backed the draft introduced by Norway, which was subsequently amended to include specific criticism of rocket attacks and incendiary device launches from Gaza. However, it also highlighted looming Israeli evictions of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem and called on Israel to maintain the status quo at the city’s holy sites.
The pointed criticism of Israel, in addition to the Palestinians, appeared to have been enough to give the US mission pause, according to four diplomats who spoke to The Times of Israel on the condition of anonymity in order to reveal what transpired during the closed consultation.
The US mission asked for more time to deliberate the matter, adding that the timing might not have been right for a joint statement, the diplomats involved recalled. Two days have passed, and frustration from member states and other countries watching has grown.
NEW YORK — The Biden administration irked quite a few allies on Monday when it blocked the approval of a joint statement from the United Nations Security Council that criticized both sides for the ongoing escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza.
Fourteen of the top panel’s 15 members had backed the draft introduced by Norway, which was subsequently amended to include specific criticism of rocket attacks and incendiary device launches from Gaza. However, it also highlighted looming Israeli evictions of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem and called on Israel to maintain the status quo at the city’s holy sites.
The pointed criticism of Israel, in addition to the Palestinians, appeared to have been enough to give the US mission pause, according to four diplomats who spoke to The Times of Israel on the condition of anonymity in order to reveal what transpired during the closed consultation.
The US mission asked for more time to deliberate the matter, adding that the timing might not have been right for a joint statement, the diplomats involved recalled. Two days have passed, and frustration from member states and other countries watching has grown.
Not only did the stance alienate the Biden administration from allies that it entered office vowing to “reassure,” but it did not even impress Israel, which the posture appeared at least partially aimed at satisfying.
Shortly after the meeting ended, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan issued a statement tearing into the Biden administration over the aforementioned State Department press release, say it was “unacceptable.”
“We are in disagreement with the [Biden] administration and hope to see it wise up in light of the Palestinian disturbances and violence,” Erdan tweeted, albeit in Hebrew. “Pressure must be exerted on the party that spreads violence and hatred — the Palestinian Authority and Abu Mazen (President Mahmoud Abbas), and not on Israel.”
The exchange appeared to be part of a broader trend in which the Biden administration has found itself unable to please advocates of Israel or the Palestinians, both before and since the latest round of violence began. READ MORE
Biden fumbles attempt to please everyone with tepid response to Mideast violence
Biden fumbles attempt to please everyone with tepid response to Mideast violence
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