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.
United Nations (UN) General Assembly
Cheryl Saban was a
U.S. rep, 67th General Assembly session for the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, is married to Haim Saban, and the president of the Saban Family Foundation.
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).
Saban
Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
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.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past
Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
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.
Richard Schifter
was a member of the Committee on the
Present Danger, and a deputy U.S. representative for the United Nations (UN) Security Council.
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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