The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed on Saturday the Foreign Ministry to complete a re-evaluation of all contacts with the United Nations including the Israeli funding of U.N. institutions and the presence of U.N. representatives in Israel.
Israel will re-assess its ties with the United Nations following the adoption by the Security Council of a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building Netanyahu threatened.
Netanyahu made his comments following Friday’s UN Security Council vote in favor of a resolution condemning Israel’s illegal settlement activity across the occupied Palestinian territories.
The decision was “shameful” the Prime Minister repeated multiple times.
“The Security Council decision calls Israeli land occupied and that is just shameful the decision calls the Western Wall occupied land it is shameful” Netanyahu further claimed.
Speaking of US President Barack Obama’s choice to abstain from voting Netanyahu said that the Obama administration went against Israel backing out of the commitment it had made to stand for Israel.
“The decision not only does not help us make peace it stands in the way of peace” stated Netanyahu.
Israel will not accept the decision and it will be cancelled he warned threatening to cease funding UN institutions.
Netanyahu has also instructed Israel’s ambassadors in New Zealand and Senegal to return to Israel for consultations his spokesman said on Friday in response to the UN resolution on settlements.
The United Nations Security Council voted on Friday to adopt a resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity as illegal and demanding that Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory including east Jerusalem”.
Fourteen out of the 15 voting members of the Council voted in favor of the resolution none voted against it and the United States chose to abstain and did not cast its veto on the initiative.
The vote was originally scheduled to take place on Thursday but in a dramatic turn of events Egypt which had introduced the draft resolution succumbed to pressure and withdrew it just hours before it was due to be considered at the Security Council as President-elect Donald Trump came out squarely against it saying the resolution “should be vetoed.”
