John Kerry's Lost Stand and the Betrayal of Israel

"No one would normally care about John Kerry droning on over his fruitless Mideast peace efforts for more than an hour before a captive audience in the State Department auditorium with 23 days remaining in his weak tenure as secretary of state.

But care we do because of the duplicity of him and President Obama in allowing Israel to be officially pilloried at the UN Security Council last week by letting an anti-Israel resolution pass 14 to none. A veto was needed, but Obama and Kerry shamefully told U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power to stand aside.

Why? Because even though they call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by his nickname, Bibi, they don't like him and blame him for their failures - and used the UN resolution attacking all Israeli building on the disputed West Bank, including the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, as a weapon...

And so Obama and Kerry took it out on Netanyahu by ordering Power to let the resolution pass. A justly furious Netanyahu says he has proof that the U.S. wasn't just a bystander, but organized the get-Israel gang while claiming clean hands. That has the ring of truth. The incoming team of President-elect Donald Trump, with a greater respect for Israel as an ally and recognition of the UN as a bunch of do-nothing gasbags, will have to repair the damage..."