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Сегодня в прямом эфире «Эха» Сергей Пархоменко прямо назвал президента России дураком. К чему бы это? Наверное к переменам.

Mr. President, I am sorry I gave you my vote.

Obama will not apply veto against UN condemnation of Israeli settlements
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

22 Jan. President Barack Obama is about to withhold the US veto from a Palestinian-Arab motion due to be tabled at the UN Security Council condemning Israel for its settlement policy in the West Bank and Jerusalem, DEBKAfile's Washington sources report. If he does, he will be the first US president to let an anti-Israel motion go through the Security Council and building on the West Bank and even in the forty-year old suburbs of East Jerusalem would become illegal and set the US on a collision course with the Netanyahu government. Jerusalem would see this step as encouraging the Palestinians and hostile Arab states to continue to use the UN Security Council to undermine Israel's legitimacy and recognize a unilateral Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders without negotiations.
Washington's latest proposal to work on security arrangements first and so ease the path to a deal on borders would be negated by is UN veto because a motion against settlements would a priori dictate eventual borders between the Palestinian state and Israel.