Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Sources: Lame Duck Obama to Allow Anti-Israel UN Efforts



Sources: Lame Duck Obama to Allow Anti-Israel UN Efforts
by Joel B. Pollak 19 Dec 2016
Sources inform Breitbart News that U.S. President Barack Obama may allow anti-Israel resolutions to pass at the UN that would legitimize and strengthen the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish state.

Palestinians are circulating a draft UN Security Council resolution that, among other things, declares Israeli settlements to be illegal and launches a BDS campaign by demanding that UN member states refrain from offering any assistance to Israel that might connect to “settlements.”  New Zealand is circulating another, separate anti-Israel resolution. And Sweden, which will assume the presidency of the UN Security Council in January, intends to bring its own resolution slamming Israeli settlements.

Israel says that because there is no prior legal sovereign in the territory, most settlements there are permitted — save for wildcat settlements erected against Israel’s own laws – unless and until a negotiated peace deal decides otherwise. Palestinians claim everything Israel has built across the 1949 armistice line (“1967 border”) — including several neighborhoods of Jerusalem — is illegal.

Palestinian leaders reportedly spoke with Secretary of State John Kerry last week in an effort to discourage an American veto of any anti-Israel resolution that emerges in the next few weeks.

Breitbart News’ sources indicate that the Obama administration may decline to use its veto against a Security Council resolution against Israel.

Allowing the settlements to be declared illegal would be an enormous boost to the BDS movement, which seeks to isolate Israel. Such a resolution could also encourage renewed efforts to prosecute Israeli military and political officials in the International Criminal Court.

Separately, the UN General Assembly is set to vote this week to fund an effort by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to compile a blacklist of any company doing business that directly or indirectly supports settlements – which, given the settlements’ integration into the Israeli economy, would effectively mean blacklisting companies doing business with Israel. The blacklist project was approved in March, but the money to accomplish it had yet to be allocated.

However, that money appears in large measure already to have been spent — i.e. the compilation of the blacklist is already well under way. The UNHRC budget proposal calls for:

General temporary assistance at the P-3 level for eight months for one staff who will, in close consultation with the Working Group on Business and Human Rights, create a database of all business enterprises involved in the activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the report of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem; and draft a report presenting the above-requested tasks to the Council at its thirty-fourth session.

The 34th session is from February to March 2017, meaning that the project has been ongoing for several months before facing an official appropriations vote.

The Obama administration, which recently ran for re-election to the UNHRC and strongly supports the institution, has not indicated whether it will vote against the BDS provision.  If it passes, the UN will have succeeded in creating an international database to be used in anti-Israel boycotts and the United States taxpayer will be footing 22% of the bill – unless action is taken on the domestic front to prevent the expenditure.

The UNHRC, like much of the rest of the UN, is disproportionately focused on Israel. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is being credited for acknowledging the anti-Israel bias of the UN as a whole: “Decades of political maneuverings have created a disproportionate volume of resolutions, reports and conferences criticizing Israel,” he told the UN Security Council last week (while, ironically, encouraging another such UN Security Council resolution).

And yet that disproportionate focus continues — with the outgoing Obama administration rumored to be about to deliver a parting blow.

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Note: Haim Saban is married to Cheryl Saban, the VP for the Saban Family Foundation, a benefactor for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was a friend of Shimon Peres.
Saban Family Foundation was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
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George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Teresa Heinz Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and married to John F. Kerry.
John F. Kerry is married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, and Cameron F. Kerry’s brother.
Cameron F. Kerry is John F. Kerry’s brother, a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
Shimon Peres was the president for Israel, and a friend of Haim Saban.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, and is the president for the Barack Obama administration.     
Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).         
Thomas R. Pickering is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was a U.S. ambassador for Israel.
Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
Cameron F. Kerry is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, John F. Kerry’s brother, and a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, and is the president for the Barack Obama administration.
Saban Family Foundation was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cheryl Saban is the president of the Saban Family Foundation, married to Haim Saban, and was a U.S. rep, 67th General Assembly session for the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.
John C. Whitehead was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Committee on the Present Danger.
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Morris J. Amitay is a member of the Committee on the Present Danger, and was an executive director for AIPAC.
AIPAC is a U.S.-based lobby group for Israel.
American Israel Education Foundation is the charitable arm for AIPAC.
Saban Family Foundation was a funder for the American Israel Education Foundation, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cheryl Saban is the president of the Saban Family Foundation, married to Haim Saban, and was a U.S. rep, 67th General Assembly session for the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.
Haim Saban is married to Cheryl Saban, the VP for the Saban Family Foundation, a benefactor for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was a friend of Shimon Peres.
Saban Family Foundation was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the American Israel Education Foundation.
Saban Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
Shimon Peres was the president for Israel, and a friend of Haim Saban.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, and is the president for the Barack Obama administration.     
R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the International Peace Institute (think tank).
Ban Ki-Moon is an honorary chair for the International Peace Institute, and the secretary general for the United Nations (UN).
Palestine is a member state for the United Nations (UN).
Samantha Power is the U.S. ambassador for the United Nations (UN), and married to Cass R. Sunstein.
Cass R. Sunstein is married to Samantha Power, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Saban Family Foundation was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the American Israel Education Foundation.
Cheryl Saban is the president of the Saban Family Foundation, married to Haim Saban, and was a U.S. rep, 67th General Assembly session for the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.
Haim Saban is married to Cheryl Saban, the VP for the Saban Family Foundation, a benefactor for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was a friend of Shimon Peres.
Saban Family Foundation was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the American Israel Education Foundation.
Saban Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

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