Russia did not support a UN Security Council Resolution the Obama administration considered pushing to force parameters for a peace agreement on Israel and the Palestinians, recently declassified phone conversations between US President Donald Trump's former adviser Michael Flynn and Russia's ambassador to the US at the time Sergey Kislyak indicate.
The US and Russia denied reports that in December 2016, soon after then-US president Barack Obama allowed UN Security Council Resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlement activity to pass, he pushed a second resolution that would be damaging to Israel.
The resolution passed because the US abstained, as opposed to its usual veto.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended up convincing Russian President Vladimir Putin to threaten a veto. The resolution was never actually submitted to the UNSC, because it had no chance of passing.
However, the Flynn-Kislyak transcripts declassified late last month, indicated that the story of Putin’s veto of a second Obama-backed resolution – first reported in Israel Hayom this week and further developed by The Jerusalem Post – is, in fact true.
Netanyahu enlisted then-president-elect Donald Trump and his staff to try to block Resolution 2334, and during those efforts, an Israeli source told the Post this week, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon found out that a second resolution was on the way.
The resolution passed because the US abstained, as opposed to its usual veto.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended up convincing Russian President Vladimir Putin to threaten a veto. The resolution was never actually submitted to the UNSC, because it had no chance of passing.
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