A full page advertisement ran Saturday in the New York Times asking, “after the elections, will President Obama betray Israel at the United Nations?” Placed by the Zionist Organization of America, one of the largest and oldest pro-Israel organizations in the United States whose board members include GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, the ad comes amid growing concerns after eight years of strained U.S –Israel relations. It wonders if President Obama, once freed from political considerations in his support of Hillary Clinton, will permit the United Nations Security Council to pass some form of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian resolution. In the ad, Morton Klein, President of the ZOA ad writes:

Is President Barack Obama intending to abandon the decades of bipartisan U.S. policy of vetoing anti-Israel U.N. Security Council resolutions? Specifically, is Obama preparing to permit the UN Security Council to pass a resolution recognizing a Palestinian Arab state, and declaring that Israel building any homes in eastern Jerusalem and/or Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to be illegal? The signs that this is indeed the case are numerous. READ MORE


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