Elliott Abrams: Obama Feeds Israel to the Jackals

"The Security Council resolution on Israel rewards the PLO for refusing to negotiate and adopts its tactic of replacing serious, face-to-face negotiations with useless dramas in New York. It is a danger to Israel.

And by refusing to veto, the Obama administration abandoned the usual American practice of defending Israel from what Jeane Kirkpatrick called 'the jackals' at the United Nations...

Netanyahu is not popular among settlers exactly because he has restrained settlement growth and as noted adopted a 10-month freeze. In 2009 Hillary Clinton said, 'What the prime minister has offered in specifics on restraints on a policy of settlements...is unprecedented.' What has been the Obama reaction to his restraint, to his freeze, to the PLO refusal to negotiate?

The reaction has been to blame Israel and assault Netanyahu year after year, including with childish epithets. And this attitude culminated finally in the abandonment of Israel at the United Nations..."