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New Zealand Says Kerry Held Closed-Door Discussion on Anti-Israel UN Resolution

(Wall Street Journal) Bret Stephens - The Obama administration claims it did not promote, craft or orchestrate a resolution that treats the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City as a settlement in illegally occupied territory. Yet in November, John Kerry had a long talk on the subject with the foreign minister of New Zealand, one of the resolution's sponsors. "One of the closed-door discussions between United States Secretary of State John Kerry and the New Zealand government today was a potential resolution by the United Nations Security Council on a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict," the New Zealand Herald reported last month. "It is a conversation we are engaged in deeply and we've spent some time talking to Secretary Kerry about where the U.S. might go on this," Foreign Minister Murray McCully said. We have the spectacle of the U.S. government hiding behind the skirts of the foreign minister of New Zealand - along with eminent co-sponsors, Venezuela, Malaysia and Senegal - in order to embarrass and endanger a democratic ally in a forum where that ally is already isolated and bullied. In the catalog of low points in American diplomacy, this one ranks high.
2016-12-27 00:00:00
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