The Biden administration is reportedly crafting a “January surprise” that could severely undermine Israel at the United Nations, echoing the actions of the Obama administration in 2016. According to Michael Doran, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former senior director in the U.S. National Security Council, Biden’s team is preparing a move modeled directly on U.N. Resolution 2334, which labeled Israeli settlements beyond the 1967 Green Line as illegal.
Speaking on his podcast on Dec. 31, Doran detailed how the administration is poised to declare Israel in violation of U.S. law by allegedly blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza. This finding, rooted in Section 620(i) of the Foreign Assistance Act, could lead to U.N. action against Israel, even if Biden personally waives immediate penalties. The resulting diplomatic fallout, Doran warned, would deliver a severe blow to Israel’s international standing, with the administration effectively signaling its disapproval while publicly maintaining plausible deniability.
“Obama delivered a parting kick to Netanyahu in 2016 by allowing U.N. Resolution 2334 to pass without a veto,” Doran said. “It painted large swathes of Israel, including the Western Wall, as occupied territory. Biden’s team is preparing to do the same.”
According to Doran, the Biden administration’s approach mirrors Obama’s tactic of letting other nations spearhead the resolution, while the U.S. abstains, enabling hostile international actors to take the lead. Algeria or Slovenia are expected to introduce a new resolution condemning Israel, which the Biden administration may either quietly support or abstain from vetoing at the Security Council.
“The administration wants to have it both ways,” Doran explained. “They will find Israel guilty of obstructing aid to Gaza but will waive the consequences, signaling to the U.N. and other international bodies that the U.S. stands aside as Israel faces censure.”
The fallout, Doran warned, could cascade into the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and the European Union, all of which could leverage the U.S. finding to justify further action against Israel.
Key figures in the administration, including USAID chief Samantha Power, deputy secretary Kurt Campbell, and U.N. envoy deputy Ned Price, are reportedly driving the effort. Others, such as National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, are described as undecided, while a minority within the administration, including Middle East advisers Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein, are pushing back.
“There are two camps fighting over this inside the administration,” Doran said. “The question is whether Biden and Blinken will sign off on it.”
Doran further noted that the incoming Republican-controlled Congress and Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House could disrupt or reverse the administration’s plans. Trump previously stood by Israel against U.N. resolutions and brokered several historic peace agreements in the region.
The reported scheme underscores deepening divisions within the Biden administration over Middle East policy, with some officials pushing for harsher measures against Israel while others urge caution.
Critics argue that such a move risks alienating Israel, one of America’s closest allies, while emboldening hostile actors in the region. “This isn’t just about Israel,” Doran cautioned. “It’s about projecting weakness to Iran, Hezbollah, and others who see U.S. equivocation as a green light.”
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We are about to see what this מניאק is all about and what are his true colors. Let him rot in hell
Biden absolutely would know what he’s signing off on. The radicals in his administration are in charge.
The whole thing makes no difference. Let them do whatever they want. No one cares about the UN. Certainly not trump.
The timing of the sudden magnanimity and willingness to sell Israel 8 billion of arms was both strange and suspicious. Now after Blinken shared his “heroics” of threatening Netanyahu that he would advise against Biden’s visit to Israel right after 7/10/23, unless Israel ramped up the humanitarian aid to the Gaza, there is even greater reason to regret the day that Biden set foot in E”Y. It gave the US administration a veneer of being caring and empathetic to the Israelis, while the real goal was to come and threaten the Israelis from up close and stick a knife in their backs and keep on turning it. Nauseating.
This article is just plain disgusting and grotesque. The Biden administration has done more for Israel than any other government in the world since 10/7. Just yesterday the Biden administration asked Congress to approve 8 billion in weapons sales to Israel. Blinken has publicly blamed Hamas for breakdown in talks. John Kirby continues to valiantly defend Israel. Yet instead of showing a basic modicum of Hakoras Hatov you chose to spread right wing nonsense from a big nobody.
artide predictable, now Hashem…..remove this TRASH
CrazyK- EVERY administration sells weapons to Israel. And a lot of them. This admin is no different. What IS different is that just like Obama – when Israel was in a hot war and running out of munitions they needed – both Obama and this Biden administration refused to send them the critical munitions they needed when they actually needed it!
In addition this Biden administration told Israel you can attack the terrorists but we forbid you from going to where the terrorists actually are !!!
When Iran attacked them they said you can attack Iran but we forbid you from doing any real damage to them and we forbid you from attacking anything important!!!
At this point reading your comments it’s clear that you are a leftist and that reality will not change that you advocate for everything leftists and against anything conservative.
crazy,
You are just plain disgusting and grotesque. Brandon has stabbed Israel in the back at every turn and you still slavishly lick up the vile effluent of this useless incontinent turd. Then you get angry when you’re the only one with his filth all over you.
You’re the big nobody, you traitorous quisling, mah yafis kapo!
Keith and Dofi – Take your head out of your paranoid right wing news sources and educate yourself. Biden never stopped weapons to Israel. He stopped one type of bomb and he never prevented Israel from doing what it needed to do. Even the Rafah op was done with US consultation. Once Musk and Ramiswamy starting slashing budgets and Vance and Tulsi put their isolationism into practice you may begin to miss the massive aid package sent by Biden. You may begin to miss the deployment of US forces to protect Israel and you may miss the US operated THAAD batteries that just last week shot down incoming rockets. Biden built a coalition of allies that shot down incoming Iranian rockets and he was successful at that. In any case the new fad is apparently to be a kofu tovah and consider it a value. How sad.
Crazy –
I made sure to include what I presume are the news sources you read regularly including al-Jazeera and The Guardian. When asked – in the video – the general says “we support Israel’s right to defend itself.” Then when the reporter asked he said yes we stopped sending them the very bombs they need in Rafah and are reassessing whether or not to support Israel re Rafah. The admin says “we support Israel’s right to defend itself,” but then says we do not permit you to go where the terrorists are. They forbade them from entering Rafah and closing off the Philadelphi corridor. They forbade them from attacking Hamas’ command and control centers in mosques, schools, and hospitals. FORBADE! The weapons they needed WHEN THEY NEEDED THEM Biden refused to provide. Sure now, that they are not needed in the hot war, they send them. Not when they needed them. He is the friend that promises to lend you the money you need to pay rent and gives it to you after you become homeless. Despicable.
All of your posts support leftists. As long as a leftist does it – no matter how bad it harms America or Israel, no matter how opposed that action is to Jewish values and American values, you consistent support it … as long as it’s a leftist who so advocates.
Thank G-d we live in America where you are free to advocate for whatever idea you like. But let’s not pretend you are not a leftist and let’s not pretend you don’t support those who hate America, hate Israel, and oppose Jewish values.
The admin did not include my posted links. I think they were messy. Here again they are…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/8/us-pauses-weapons-delivery-to-israel-over-rafah-offensive-concerns-reports
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-pentagon-holds-briefing-after-biden-announces-plan-to-withhold-weapons-delivery-to-israel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/08/us-weapons-shipment-pause-israel-idf-rafah-gaza-hamas-war-palestine
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-has-been-holding-up-several-weapons-shipments-israel-2-weeks-source-says-2024-05-07/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/joe-biden-interview-cnntv/index.html