Obama’s Next Move May Be Lifting U.S. Protection of Israel at UN
U.S. President Barack Obama is seen during a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office at the White House on December 5, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
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While the world remains fixated on the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, the Obama administration is facing another foreign policy showdown in the United Nations Security Council.
The administration has signaled that it might abandon the decades-long U.S. policy of protecting Israel at the UN and back a Security Council resolution laying out terms for a two-state solution to the almost 67-year-old dispute between the Jewish state and the Palestinians.