U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden speaks at the First Ministers’ and National Indigenous Leaders’ meeting in Ottawa, on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. (Credit: AP)
Although the United States abstained from Friday’s controversial UN vote condemning Israeli expansion into Palestinian land, a new story is emerging claiming that Vice President Joe Biden personally called the president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, in order to convince his country to vote “yes” on the resolution.
“Did Biden put pressure on the Ukrainians? Categorically yes,” said an anonymous highly-placed Israeli government official with strong connections to Ukraine in an interview with Tablet Magazine on …read more
Source: Salon
