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The resolution passed with 14 votes in favor and the US's abstentionThe draft was co-sponsored by four countries: New Zealand, Venezuela, Malaysia and Senegal
(CNN)The United States on Friday allowed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction to be adopted, defying extraordinary pressure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in alliance with President-elect Donald Trump.
The Security Council approved the resolution with 14 votes, with the US abstaining. There was applause in the chamber following the vote.
In the latest and perhaps final chapter in the bitter mistrust between President Barack Obama's White House and the Israeli government, a senior Israeli official had earlier accused the US and the Palestinians of cooking up the "extreme" resolution behind Israel's back.
Trump had also inserted himself in the diplomatic drama, in defiance of the convention that the United States has only only one president at a time, by calling on the Obama administration to veto the resolution.
Israel's UN ambassador, Danny Danon, reacted angrily to the vote and issued a sharp parting shot at the Obama administration's role.
"It was to be expected that Israel's greatest ally would act in accordance with the values that we share and that they would have vetoed this disgraceful resolution. I have no doubt that the new US administration and the incoming UN Secretary General will usher in a new era in terms of the UN's relationship with Israel," he said.
Hours before the UN Security Council vote, the Israelis made clear their intense disappointment with the US over the resolution, which calls on Israel to "immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem."
"President Obama and Secretary Kerry are behind this shameful move against Israel at the UN," a senior Israeli official told CNN.
"The US administration secretly cooked up with the Palestinians an extreme anti-Israeli resolution behind Israel's back which would be a tailwind for terror and boycotts and effectively make the Western Wall occupied Palestinian territory," a senior Israeli official said.
Before the vote, a Palestinian official said, "We have nothing to say about this. No President has troubled Palestinians in the UN more than President Obama."
The New York Times reported this weekthat Obama's advisers did not disclose a position on how the US would vote and were holding out until the vote to see how the matter developed.
US and Palestinian officials denied the Israeli accusation of colluding on the UN vote. The resolution was originally put forward by Egypt but it was withdrawn under pressure from the Israelis. Four countries, New Zealand, Venezuela, Malaysia and Senegal, brought it up again for a vote on Friday.
A senior Obama administration official said, "To be clear: from the start, this was an Egyptian resolution. The Egyptians authored it, circulated it, and submitted it for a vote on Wednesday evening before asking for a delay and subsequently removing their sponsorship.
"Contrary to some claims, the administration was not involved in formulating the resolution nor have we promoted it."
A senior Palestinian official told CNN they were not informed how the US would handle the Security Council vote when a delegation was in town earlier this month to urge the administration to support it. The Palestinian official said they did not know how the US would vote and called the Israeli allegation "totally untrue."
Two senior US officials involved in this process vehemently also denied the Israel accusation and also said that the US itself didn't really know how it was going to vote until Thursday morning. The official said Kerry himself was surprised that the Egyptians put the resolution forward so quickly. He was left scrambling to finish his speech and then left scrambling again when the Egyptians delayed the vote on Thursday.
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سيف اليزل برعي البدوي
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