JERUSALEM — With President Barack Obama in his last months in office, the Palestinians are hoping he will follow up his historic breakthroughs with Iran and Cuba and push for their cause as well.
The first step is reintroducing a United Nations Security Council resolution the United States vetoed in 2011 seeking “accountability” for Israeli West Bank settlement-building.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said the hope is that Obama will break with American protocol and refrain from vetoing it this time around.
The draft, which Malki said stresses the “violence and terrorism of the settlers,” still needs approval from Arab nations before the Palestinians would present it. But the move signals a renewed effort to get back on the agenda.
