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Obama's decision at the end of his presidency to abstain at a UN Security Council vote against Israel was supposedly motivated by maps of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria brought to his attention.
19659003] A Report in The New Yorker, a magazine with a pro-Obama, anti-Trump and anti-Netanyahu stance, claims maps showing the expansion of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria was a crucial factor in the US decision to refrain in December 2016 from voting against Israel for its housing policy in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
The New Yorker Report released Monday, claims to shed light on the Obama administration's decision to abstain a vote at the UN Security Council on Resolution 2334, which facilitated its adoption.
In what was perceived at the time as a departure from US policy vis-à-vis Israel, the Obama administration decided to abstain demanded a halt of all Israeli settlement activities in Judea and Samaria and in the Jerusalem neighborhoods that were controlled by Israel after the Six Day War
According to the report, Frank Lowenstein, a senior official of the State Department and Obama's special envoy on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, discovered maps that showed precisely what part of the Israeli-controlled area since 1967 was populated by Israeli communities or banned from Palestinians.
The New Yorker did not know report why for eight years the Obama administration had no idea of the extent of Israel's presence in Judea , Samaria and Jerusalem.
Nor is it said that Israel accepted a settlement freeze in Judea and Samaria at the end of 2009, which continued until the end of 2010 as a precondition to the resumption of negotiations with the Palestinians. However, the Palestinians refused to meet with Israel.
Lowenstein said at the New Yorker that in 2015, he was stunned to discover that Israeli-controlled and out-of-bound areas to Palestinians accounted for 60% of the territory.
Lowenstein said that he brought the cards to the then US Secretary of State, John Kerry, who then introduced them to Obama
Kerry placed the cards on a coffee table in the oval office for Obama and his advisor. According to Rhodes, the president was shocked to see how "systematic" Israelis were to cut Palestinian population centers from each other
Alarmed by the Israeli actions described in Obama's decision to abstain on the UN Security Council resolution condemning the settlements, according to the report.
The New Yorker journalist Adam Entous, described it as "the last act of Obama's challenge against Benjamin Netanyahu." Onald Trump took office and put in place policies that accepted much better settlers. "
Judea and SamariaObamaResolution 2334Un-Israeli anti-Israeli resolution
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