Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his government has “absolutely incontestable evidence that the United States organized, advanced, and brought” an anti-Israel resolution to the United Nations Security Council. In an on-camera statement from Jerusalem, Netanyahu said he would share this evidence with the incoming administration of Donald Trump.
“Some of it is sensitive,” he said of the evidence. “It’s all true. You saw some of it in the protocol released in an Egyptian paper. There’s plenty more. It’s the tip of the iceberg.”
The resolution, which declared Israeli settlements in disputed territory illegal (such as the part of East Jerusalem that contains the Western Wall, a holy site for the Jewish people), passed the Security Council last week with 14 votes. The United States abstained, declining to use its veto power to block the resolution. There have been reports that high-level members of the Obama administration, including Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry, were involved in pushing for the resolution behind the scenes.
“Israel hopes that the outgoing Obama administration will prevent any more damage being done to Israel at the U.N. in its waning days,” Netanyahu said. “I wish I could be comforted by the promise that the U.S. says we will not bring anymore resolutions to the U.N. That’s what they said about this previous resolution.”
Netanyahu also added that he looks forward to working with both Trump and the Congress “to mitigate the damage that this resolution has done and ultimately to repeal it.”
