UN Security Council Meeting to Discuss Israeli Home Building as an 'Obstacle to Peace'

"The United Nations Security Council is expected to meet next Friday to discuss Israel's settlement building in the West Bank in what is widely seen as a renewed bid by the Palestinians to pass a resolution condemning Israel for the activity...

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon slammed the Palestinians for the initiative, accusing them of 'using the international community to harm the State of Israel instead of stopping incitement and sitting at the negotiation table.'

'The Palestinians are conducting state terror against the communities in Judea and Samaria,' he said, using the biblical name for the West Bank. He suggested that the Palestinians were trying to avoid direct bilateral talks with Israel by appealing instead to the UN and international community.

'The Palestinian leadership is choosing, once again, to reject our repeated suggestion for direct negotiations and is going straight to the UN. This move will not lead to an improvement in the Palestinian situation,' Danon said. 'It is the international community's responsibility to strongly reject these attempts.'

'Only an absolute stop to Palestinian incitement and the halting of terror against Israeli citizens will facilitate a dialogue,' he said..."