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Post by Daniel on Jul 22, 2018 12:09:15 GMT -5
‘Paradigm shift’: Top Trump officials say UN may be ‘turning around’ on Israel
By TOI staff
Four senior US administration officials have lauded “the beginning of a paradigm shift” in the United Nations General Assembly, citing voting patterns on a June resolution on violence in the Gaza Strip.
In an opinion piece published by CNN, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, senior adviser to US President Donald Trump Jared Kushner, US Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, and US Ambassador to Israel David Freidman said the organization, which in the past has been “relentlessly and blindly anti-Israel,” had shown promise by considering Hamas’s role in the conflict.
The four officials explained that after Algeria proposed a resolution on June 13 blaming Israel for recent violence, the United States proposed an amendment which denounced Hamas as well.
Algeria called a vote to dismiss the amendment without debate, which failed to pass, and the amendment was considered and voted upon. The piece noted that while the measure ultimately failed due to a technicality, more countries voted in favor of the amendment than against.
The administration officials praised the assembly’s willingness to hold Hamas responsible for conflict in Gaza, saying: “For the first time in the United Nations, more nations than not acknowledged that peace between Israel and the Palestinian people must be built on a foundation of truth regarding Hamas.
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