Haaretz Criticizes UN Veto

Leftist rag Haaretz, Israel's equivalent to the NYT, isn't happy that America vetoed the UN's latest despicable anti-Israel resolution which would have declared "settlements" illegal. It is not the business of the international community to determine where Jews live within their own sovereign nation.

Via Israpundit:

Once again, the American superpower appeared to lose some of its prestige and international standing in order to defend the Israeli settlement enterprise, which enjoys the support of powerful patrons in Congress.

After hesitating until the very last moment, U.S. President Barack Obama decided to have his envoy veto the UN Security Council resolution condemning the settlements. The Palestinian-initiated proposal would have declared the Israeli settlement enterprise in the territories illegal. Fourteen members of the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution, and only the U.S. veto kept it from being passed.

The Palestinians lost the vote, but achieved their goal: They exposed for all to see the international isolation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration and embarrassed the U.S. administration by revealing it as two-faced.