EINE WICHTIGE UNTERSCHRIFTENAKTION GEGEN DIE ZUSTIMMUNG DEUTSCHLANDS ZUR VERURTEILUNG ISRAELS IM UN-SICHERHEITSRAT…

EINE WICHTIGE UNTERSCHRIFTENAKTION GEGEN DIE ZUSTIMMUNG DEUTSCHLANDS ZUR VERURTEILUNG ISRAELS IM UN-SICHERHEITSRAT…
 

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1. TEIL 1 – Eine wichtige Unterschriftenaktion…
2. TEIL 2 – Hintergrundinformationen…
3. TEIL 3 – SONSTIGES…

TEIL 1 – Eine wichtige Unterschriftenaktion...  
 

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TEIL 2 – Hintergrundinformationen…  

1. NATIONAL REVIEW – Forget Arab Democracy, Let’s Pretend It’s about Israel – By Anne Bayefsky  & Benjamin Weinthal
   It is no coincidence that the Hezbollah-dominated Lebanese government, a non-standing member of the U.N. Security Council and an Iranian subsidiary, sponsored a resolution last Friday condemning Israeli housing construction in the disputed territories. The anti-Israel-resolution activity diverted the U.N. Security Council from passing resolutions against such authoritarian regimes as Iran and Libya for shooting their citizens and suppressing pro-democracy efforts.
   Arab despots — and Iran’s regime — have a tried-and-true method for deflecting attention from their profoundly anti-democratic and repressive political systems: Formulate a U.N. resolution to condemn the Jewish State and its vibrant democracy. The fact that EU countries — for example Germany, which asserts that Israel’s national security is integral to German interests — joined the diplomatic assault on Israel is nothing short of a major body blow to the Palestinian-Israeli peace process.
   The resolution placed the Obama administration in a bind, especially in light of its having made the U.N. the cornerstone of its foreign policy, notwithstanding the organization’s inability to define terrorism or stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and its anti-Israel obsession. But in the end, the president knew that the resolution would be a death knell to the peace process — because instead of negotiating over what are clearly final-status issues, like settlements, the U.N. would have decided outcomes in advance — so the administration vetoed the resolution (with „regret“) over the votes of the 14 remaining council members. But the mere fact that the resolution got this far is a stark indication of the Obama administration’s foreign-policy impotence….
   
   
2. JP – Amidst Mideast Turmoil, Only Israel Galvanizes the UN into Action – David Harris
   With Iran violently suppressing demonstrators in the streets and Libya using brute force in the face of mass protests, it was reassuring to know that the UN sprang into quick action.
   Just as it did after the rigged elections in 2009, Tehran was using arrests, live fire, torture and intimidation to confront those challenging the regime.  Meanwhile, the UN Security Council members gathered on February 18th in New York.

   The members solemnly deliberated as reports from Libya suggested that hundreds of peaceful protesters were slain by government forces with the help of foreign mercenaries.

   There’s only one small problem. The UN Security Council met to discuss neither the situation in Iran nor Libya, but, surprise of surprises, Israel.

   Meanwhile, the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council, charged with monitoring and protecting human rights, was also nowhere to be found when it came to Iran and Libya.… 
3. TAGESSCHAU –  USA blockieren israelkritische UN-Resolution
   Die Palästinenser erhoffen sich von einer Resolution einen stärkeren internationalen Druck auf Israels Regierung. Auch Deutschland, das seit Jahresbeginn als nicht-ständiges Mitglied dem Sicherheitsrat angehört, unterstützte den Resolutionsentwurf.

4. DEUTSCHE WELLE – US-Veto blockiert UN-Resolution zu Israels Siedlungsbau
   Obwohl die übrigen 14 Mitglieder des höchsten UN-Gremiums, darunter auch Deutschland, der Resolution zustimmten, ist der von den Palästinensern …

5. DEUTSCHE WELLE –  USA blockieren Palästinenser-Resolution
   Obwohl die übrigen 14 Mitglieder des UN-Sicherheitsrates zustimmten, ist der von den Palästinensern ausgearbeitete Entwurf damit gescheitert

6. ZEIT – UN: USA blockieren Palästinenser-Resolution
   Trotz Zustimmung der übrigen 14 Mitglieder des UN-Sicherheitsrates ist der von den Palästinensern ausgearbeitete Entwurf damit gescheitert. In dem Papier ging es um eine Verurteilung der israelischen Siedlungspolitik in den 1967 besetzten Gebieten

7. Wohl eher eine Falschmeldung!
   STERN – UN-Sicherheitsrat: US-Veto blockiert UN-Resolution gegen Israel 
   Mit ihrem Veto haben die USA eine UN-Resolution gegen die Ausweisung Arafats blockiert. Deutschland, Großbritannien und Bulgarien enthielten sich bei der Abstimmung über den arabischen Resolutionsentwurf.
   
   1. HILDESHEIMER ALLGEMEINE – USA blockieren Palästinenser-Resolution
   2. TT – UNO-Resolution gegen israelischen Siedlungsbau von USA blockiert‎
   3. STANDART – USA blockieren UN-Resolution
   4. ZEIT  – UN: USA blockieren Palästinenser-Resolution
   5. drs – Nahost: USA verhindern Israel-kritische Resolution
   6. ORF – USA verhindern UNO-Resolution gegen Israel
   7. ISRAELNETZ – Obama gegen Abstimmung über Siedlungen im UN-Sicherheitsrat
      
      
8. JP – US vetoes UN resolution condemning settlements as illegal
   Resolution not adopted because of US opposition; 14 other Security Council members vote in favor of resolution calling for an immediate halt to all settlement building.

9. YNET – US vetoes anti-Israel UN vote – US uses veto power to thwart anti-settlement resolution at UN Security Council, amid harsh Palestinian criticism; PA slams American ‚bias,‘ Ramallah protestors hold racist anti-US rally, refer to Obama by skin color
   …British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, speaking on behalf of Britain, France and Germany, condemned Israeli settlements in the West Bank. „They are illegal under international law,“ he said.
   He added that the European Union’s three biggest nations hope that an independent state of Palestine will join the United Nations as a new member state by September 2011….
    
   
10. HA’ARETZ – U.S. veto thwarts UN resolution condemning settlements
    Palestinian Authority leadership brought draft resolution against Israeli settlements to the UN security council, despite pressure from the U.S. to withdraw it.

11. HA’ARETZ – Palestinians: U.S. veto of UN settlement resolution harms the cause of peace
    Israel says direct negotiations are only way to solve conflict, after Palestinian leadership submitted a UN draft resolution condemning Israeli settlement building.

12. HA’ARETZ –  U.S.: Veto on UN draft is not endorsement of settlement construction
    The United States has vetoed a Security Council draft resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction as illegal.

13. STANDARD – USA blockieren UN-Resolution
    Die Spitzengremien der Palästinensischen Befreiungsorganisation (PLO) und der Fatah-Organisation von Präsident Mahmoud Abbas beschlossen am Freitagabend in Ramallah, dass der Resolutionsentwurf im Weltsicherheitsrat zur Abstimmung gebracht werden soll

14. SZ – USA blockieren israelkritische UN-Resolution
    Ramallah (dpa) – Die Palästinenser haben das Veto der USA bei der Abstimmung über eine Resolution gegen die israelische Siedlungspolitik im UN-Sicherheitsrat kritisiert.

    1. HANDELSBLATT – Israelischer Siedlungsbau: USA verhindern UN-Resolution
       Das zeigt, wie groß international die Unterstützung für die Palästinenser ist. Die Entscheidung Washingtons dürfte bei arabischen Staaten und den anderen Sympathisanten der Palästinenser in aller Welt für Verstimmung sorgen

15. SZ –  Washington legt Veto ein
    Die US-Entscheidung dürfte bei arabischen Staaten und Unterstützern der Palästinenser Verstimmung auslösen

16. afp – USA verhindern Verurteilung von Israels Siedlungspolitik
    New York — Die USA haben im UN-Sicherheitsrat ihr Veto gegen einen von den arabischen Staaten eingebrachten Resolutionsentwurf zur Verurteilung der israelischen Siedlungspolitik eingelegt. Trotz der Unterstützung der 14 anderen Mitglieder des Gremiums ist der Entwurf damit vom Tisch. Die USA betonten jedoch, dies dürfe von Israel nicht als Rückendeckung für den weiteren Siedlungsausbau verstanden werden.

17. BIELER TAGBLATT – US-Veto gegen UNO-Resolution zu Israel
    Die USA haben am Freitag ihr Veto gegen eine UNO-Resolution eingelegt, die den israelischen Siedlungsbau im Westjordanland und in Ostjerusalem als illegal verurteilt und einen sofortigen Stopp der Baumassnahmen gefordert hätte

18. SFTAGESSCHAU – Israelischer Siedlungsbau: USA stehen vor schwerer Wahl
    Ein Veto würde die Palästinenser und ihre Verbündeten verärgern, eine Enthaltung Israel. Eine Verurteilung im Sicherheitsrat würde die Friedensverhandlungen nur komplizierter machen, argumentierten die USA.

19. WJC – World Jewish Congress welcomes American veto of „one-sided“ UN resolution
    World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has expressed deep appreciation to the United States for voting down a UN Security Council resolution which would have unilaterally condemned Israel and termed its settlements east of the 1967 Green Line as „illegal.“ Lauder said President Obama’s decision to veto the Arab-sponsored text showed America’s support for the rights of the Jewish state and for the Middle East peace process. Had it been adopted, the resolution would have stood in violation of the Oslo II interim accords which still govern relations between the Palestinian Authority and the State of Israel and to which the United States, among many other Western countries, is a signatory.
    The other 14 members of the Security Council backed the resolution, which had been endorsed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It was the first veto by the Obama administration at the United Nations. A Palestinian official said the peace talks would now be „reassessed“.
    Ronald S. Lauder called the proposed text „one-sided“ and criticized the states that had sponsored it. „The issue of settlements needs be negotiated bilaterally, in final-status talks, between Palestinians and Israelis. It is exclusively an issue for the two parties,“ the WJC president declared. He added that the adoption of this Security Council resolution would have placed the peace process in even greater jeopardy and lent credibility to illegitimate Palestinian „back door“ efforts to establish a unilateral state by pre-determining the outcome of negotiations with Israel.
    
    Ongoing unilateral moves to establish a Palestinian state outside the agreed negotiation framework between the sides, based on Security Council resolution 242 of November 1967, represent a gross violation of previous signed agreements between the PA and Israel, Lauder pointed out. He added: „The resolution text that was proposed to the Security Council further promoted the fallacy that the 1967 borders have any basis in law or history. They never existed nor were they ever part of any agreed upon documentation concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict and have no basis whatsoever, neither in law nor in fact. The World Jewish Congress therefore urges the United Nations to stop undermining, condoning, and abetting efforts to assault Israel’s legal and diplomatic rights in ongoing negotiations over the future of the disputed territories.“
    Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also thanked the United States for vetoing the resolution. „Israel deeply appreciates this decision and we remain committed to advancing peace both with our neighbors in the region and with the Palestinians. I believe that the US decision makes it clear that the only way to peace is direct negotiations and not through the actions of international bodies, which are designed to bypass direct negotiations,“ Netanyahu said before the weekly Cabinet meeting.
    Susan Rice (pictured above), the US permanent representative at the UN, told the Security Council that „the veto should not be understood to mean we support settlement activities.“ However, she added that the draft resolution risked hardening the positions of both sides. Peace could only be made between the two parties, Rice stressed.

    1. WJC – UN Security Council to vote on controversial settlement resolution 
       In New York, the Security Council of the United Nations is expected to vote Friday on an Arab-sponsored resolution text which condemns Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. The vote was originally set for Wednesday, but postponed to let the 15 members of the council discuss it more. The draft resolution states: „Israeli settlements established in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, are illegal and constitute a major obstacle to the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace.“ The discussions were focused on the United States, which rejects the draft resolution and is likely to block the decision. According to the official all other 14 other members of the Security Council supported the draft resolution, which has been sponsored by 120 UN member states.
       Meanwhile, Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister Riad al-Malki said that Washington „would isolate itself“ if it vetoed the resolution. „It would mean that America is against implementing international law when it comes to Israeli violations in the occupied Palestinian land,“ he told ‘Voice of Palestine‘ radio. He said the Obama administration had presented three compromise offers, but the Arabs had rejected them and requested the Security Council to convene for the vote. One US proposal was to send a fact-finding mission of council members to the Middle East to look thoroughly into the issue of settlements. 
       Major Jewish groups in the United States urged the Obama administration to veto the resolution. The Orthodox Union wrote an open letter to the US president, saying that „anything short of the United States casting a veto against a resolution containing such language would be a deviation from America’s historic support for Israel against assaults at the UN and, we suggest, counterproductive to your Administration’s interests and goals in the Middle East.“

20. AJC – AJC Hails U.S. Veto of UN Security Council Resolution Condemning Israel

    February 18, 2010 – New York – AJC applauded the Obama Administration for exercising its veto at the United Nations Security Council against a resolution sponsored by the Palestinians and the Arab states which declared Jewish settlements in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem to be „illegal.„ 
    „Exercising the veto is a painful decision, particularly for an Administration with a deep and sincere commitment to multilateralism,“ said AJC Executive Director David Harris. „That is why we salute President Obama and his team for their courage in vetoing this mischievous resolution, which would have caused irreparable damage to the future prospects of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. These were talks which the President himself inaugurated, in the hope that by September of this year, a Palestinian state would be living peacefully alongside a safe and secure State of Israel.“ 
    The other four permanent members of the Security Council, as well as the ten non-permanent members, voted in favor of the resolution. 
    „It is especially disappointing that the two European permanent members of the Security Council, Britain and France, chose to actively back this resolution,“ Harris said. „Along with Germany and Portugal, which also supported it, the Europeans, who always seek a place at the table in Israeli-Palestinian talks, have essentially sent a message to the region that Palestinian refusal to negotiate directly and in good faith will be rewarded. Thankfully, the United States has made it crystal clear that there is no alternative to direct talks.“ 

21. ISRAELHEUTE – Veto der USA gegen anti-israelische Resolution?
    US-Präsident Barack Obama will offenbar verhindern, dass die Vereinten Nationen eine Resolution gegen die israelische Siedlungspolitik verabschieden. Er hat deshalb am Donnerstagabend mit Palästinenserpräsident Mahmoud Abbas telefoniert. Das Gespräch dauerte nach offiziellen Angaben 50 Minuten, brachte aber kein konkretes Ergebnis. Sollten die Vereinten Nationen am heutigen Freitag über die israelischen Siedlungen abstimmen, brächte das die USA in schwierige Situation: Ein US-Veto würde die Palästinenser und viele arabische Staaten verärgern; ein Verzicht auf ein Veto würde einen Konflikt mit Israel heraufbeschwören. Obama soll Abbas zu einer Wiederaufnahme der Friedensverhandlungen mit Israel ermuntert haben
    

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       PAJAMASMEDIA – The UN and the Obama Administration on the Wrong Side of History

       Serving up Israel when the going gets tough is what Arab dictators and demagogues do at regular intervals. The United States should not join them.
       The spectacle of the UN Security Council engaged in one more Israel-bashing exercise, while the the Iranian and Arab world burns, is a stark example of the organization’s moral turpitude and irrelevance for the 21^st century.  The Council is set to convene this afternoon to consider a resolution condemning all Israeli settlements built on what Arabs claim is their land.  The Obama administration is doing everything possible to placate Israel’s foes, and may well decide to refuse to exercise its veto power, though the resolution promotes a grossly one-sided distortion of fact and law.  The wrong side of history is close at hand.
         
           

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