United States President-elect Donald Trump expressed in a tweet on Friday his opposition to the decision by the Obama administration to allow the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to adopt a resolution which requests an end to Israeli settlements on the territory of Palestine.
“As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th,” tweeted Trump, who had earlier urged the Obama administration to veto the resolution.
Earlier in the day, the UNSC voted with 14 votes to zero in favor of the resolution condemning Israeli settlements with the U.S. abstaining from voting. The document demands “Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.”
Currently over 600,000 Israelis live in the territories that Palestinians see as a part of their future country and are thus "dangerously imperiling the viability of the two-state solution" to the conflict.
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