Obama Says U.S. Won’t Rule Out Withholding UN Support for Israel
The president said that comments made by the prime minister before his re-election have damaged the prospect for peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
US President Barack Obama speaks at the City Club of Cleveland March 18, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio.
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President Barack Obama refused to rule out the possibility of allowing a Palestinian push for statehood through the United Nations as part of a U.S. reassessment of its approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“We’re going to do that evaluation,” Obama said at a news conference in response to a question on whether he would consider supporting Palestinian statehood at the UN. “We’re going to partly wait for an actual Israeli government to form.”