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Like 2728, 1860 called for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian aid to Gaza, while providing no security assurances to Israel. Perhaps in the hopes of completing a peace deal in the final days of the Bush administration, Rice ultimately abstained, and 1860 passed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In December 2016, this pattern repeated with UNSCR 2334 at the end of the Obama administration, which condemned the settlement activities of the \u2018occupying power\u2019 Israel in the Palestinian territories, thus perpetuating the fantasy that there is an equivalency between the two parties. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Then-U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power abstained, allowing the resolution to pass, with the cover that she was only doing what the Bush administration had done.\u00a0<\/p>\n
None of the UNSCRs in question have done anything material to either reduce violence or produce peace in the Middle East. But they have all contributed to the counter-productive impression among the Palestinians that violence against Israel is somehow legitimate \u2014 as is their support of the perpetuators of this violence, first and foremost Hamas. \u00a0<\/p>\n
And while that belief remains pervasive, they will not take the concrete steps necessary to end the conflict that they have lost if anyone has the courage to tell them so.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite all these contortions at the United Nations, the United States cannot have it both ways on Israel. In 1923, the pioneering Zionist Ze\u2019ev Jabotinsky wrote in his essay \u2018The Iron Wall\u2019 that until the Palestinians accept that Israel is not going away, and engage in legitimate negotiations, the only way a Jewish state could survive is through impenetrable defenses that would render the inevitable future attacks futile.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If the Iranian attack on Israel and Oct. 7\u00a0have taught us anything, it\u2019s that Jabotinsky was correct. Given the Biden administration\u2019s reluctance to unequivocally support Israel\u2019s self-defense, it stands with Congress to do so \u2014 and just as failure on Israel policy has been bi-partisan, success can be so as well.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
In other words, this UNSCR turns a blind eye to Hamas terrorism and opens the door to the group getting a ceasefire while keeping the hostages \u2014\u00a0and the United States let it pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Late last year, a stand-alone, paid-for request for emergency funds for Israel passed the House of Representatives, and similar legislation could be passed again on Monday.\u00a0Pro-Israel senators on both sides of the aisle should then insist it be taken up and passed immediately to demonstrate that American support for Israel is indeed ironclad.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What is needed in the current crisis is not Biden\u2019s default to the uni-party failures of the past, but rather a fresh appreciation for Jabotinsky\u2019s clarity. President Donald Trump understood this wisdom, and his administration\u2019s unabashed commitment to the U.S.-Israel alliance resulted in the first peace deals with Israel and the Arabs in a quarter-century, not the grinding misery and violence we see today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Any future American administration that values the U.S.-Israel alliance should make it clear Israel isn\u2019t going away because America won\u2019t permit it to be destroyed. Only when the Palestinians \u2014 and the Iranians \u2014 accept that as an incontrovertible fact will there be any hope that they might finally lay down their arms and sue for a just and lasting peace. Until then, only a joint U.S.-Israel Iron Wall will suffice at the U.N. and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Victoria Coates is vice president for foreign policy and national defense at The Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n\n
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