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Britain and Australia more supportive of Israel than Obama and Kerry by Alan M. Dershowitz (Gatestone Inst.)

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Dec. 31, 2016

When the British Prime minster and the Australians foreign minister both criticize the Obama administration for being unfair to Israel, you can be sure that something is very wrong with what President Obama and Secretary Kerry have been doing. This is what Theresa May said:

“We do not believe that it is appropriate to attack the composition of the democratically elected government of an ally. [W]e are also clear that the settlements are far from the only problem in this conflict. In particular, the people of Israel deserve to live free from the threat of terrorism, with which they have had to cope for too long.”2

This is what Julie Bishop, the foreign minister of Australia, said in explaining why Australia would not have voted for the U.N. Security Council resolution:

“In voting at the UN, the [Australian] Coalition government has consistently not supported one-­‐sided resolutions targeting Israel.”

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