Shame on the US for Its Treatment of Israel at the UN

"At an open debate on the Middle East at the United Nations Security Council in New York on Monday - as a bus was being blown up in Jerusalem - Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told his Palestinian counterpart, Riyad Mansour, that he ought to be ashamed for not denouncing terrorism and incitement... [T]he United States ... is just as deserving of a tongue-lashing as the PA that it morally equates with Israel.

Indeed, 'disgraceful' doesn't begin to describe the statement made by David Pressman, the US's 'alternative representative to the UN for special political affairs,' at the session in question...

And here came the clincher: 'We remain deeply concerned about the shooting of a Palestinian assailant on March 24 in Hebron by a member of the Israeli security forces, and are following the legal proceedings against the accused perpetrator closely. We note that just today charges of manslaughter were brought against the soldier. ... In cases where anyone from any side acts outside the law, they must be held accountable.'

In other words, while Israel always holds each and every soldier accountable for the slightest whiff of wrongdoing, and the PA encourages, glorifies and funds terrorists as a matter of course and principle, 'both sides' share responsibility for the violence that is causing the deaths of Israelis and Palestinians alike.

But Pressman didn't stop there. No, he completed his comparison by reprimanding Israel for 'settlement activity' that the US 'strongly opposes.' Such actions as 'land expropriations, settlement expansions, and legalizations of outposts,' he said, 'are wrong and fundamentally undermine the prospects for a two-state solution.'

Shame on him and the entire Obama administration for not realizing that the only kind of construction the US should be linking to the jihad that the Palestinians are waging against Israel is that of terror tunnels, rocket launchers and lies."