Obama Administration Won't Say Whether It Will Veto UN Security Council Resolution Against Israeli Settlements

"The United States has yet to decide whether or not to support a Palestinian drive to push forward a UN Security Council resolution later this month condemning West Bank settlements.

'We understand there is an early draft that the Palestinians have shared informally in New York,' US State Department Deputy spokesman Mark Toner told reporters in Washington on Friday...

The US vetoed an anti-settlement resolution at the UN in 2011, which was the only veto cast by the US during President Barack Obama's tenure... There is a growing fear among Israelis that Obama could change his tune with respect to a Security Council resolution.

'I'm not going to comment on what is really an informal draft resolution,' Toner told reporters on Friday. 'Nothing has been formally introduced or circulated at the Security Council, and nothing has been introduced by a Security Council member.'...

But, Toner added, 'I just want to set that apart and say that's just a draft resolution. It's not ready – as we say, not ready for prime time yet. So we've seen it, but we're not going to comment on it at this current form.'...

There also has been concern that Obama, in the waning days of his tenure, might bring a proposal to the Security Council setting down his own parameters for a resolution..."