For the first time in six years, the U.S. enabled a vote against Israel at the United Nations, supporting a U.N. Security Council statement condemning Israeli "settlements."
Eight days previously, Israel had legitimized nine Israeli settlements that were erected without government approval. This was Israel's bullish response to the wave of recent terror attacks by jihadi gangs that the Palestinian Authority has allowed to proliferate in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria.
Legitimizing the settlements delivered the message that the more the Palestinian Arabs murder Israelis in order to force the Jews from the entire land, the more Israel will embed itself in the entire land.
The Security Council promptly had a hissy fit. So did the U.S. State Department, which said it was "deeply troubled."
But the Security Council statement that America supported wasn't "deeply troubled" by the Palestinian Arab terror attacks in Jerusalem over the previous few weeks, in which 10 Israelis were murdered. It wasn't "deeply troubled" by the P.A.'s unremitting incitement to murder Israeli Jews and steal their land in an Islamic holy war. READ MORE
