Though Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., has pledged to share “clear evidence” the U.S. was behind last week’s anti-Israel United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which bars the Jewish state from establishing settlements in territory claimed by Palestinians, one of President Barack Obama’s senior aides is calling the suggestion flatly untrue.
Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper Wednesday, Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, said the suggestion that the U.S. orchestrated the controversial vote, from which the White House abstained, is nothing more than “a distraction.”
“We never told anyone how we would vote on the text of a resolution …read more
Source: The Blaze
