Cruz says UN draft resolution against Israel is aimed at undermining incoming Trump admin, GOP Congress

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JERUSALEM— Just hours earlier the United Nations Security Council is slated to ballot connected an alleged anti-Israel solution pushed by Algeria to enforce an extremity connected the Jewish state's warfare of self-defense against Hamas, the Biden medication has gone soundless astir however it volition vote.

The irony of the notoriously anti-Israel Algeria devising the solution recalls the witty enactment of the precocious Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., Abba Eban, who said, "If Algeria introduced a (U.N.) solution declaring that the world was level and that Israel had flattened it, it would walk by a ballot of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."

The projected solution has triggered outrage from respective quarters, including a starring Republican U.S.senator.

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Cruz during a Senate hearing

The projected solution has triggered outrage from respective quarters, including Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. (ALLISON BAILEY/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

"This solution is conscionable 1 of respective assaults connected Israel being planned astatine the United Nations, meant to preemptively and permanently undermine the incoming Trump medication and Republican Congress," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital.

"I volition enactment with my Republican colleagues and with President Trump to instrumentality immoderate steps are indispensable to undo these measures, including fundamentally reevaluating our narration with the U.N. and the Palestinians, broadly cutting aid, imposing sanctions connected circumstantial officials liable for those measures, and countering governments and NGOs pushing oregon implementing them," helium said.

Fox News Digital reported past week that U.N. experts believed Biden’s medication mightiness question to replicate Obama’s parting changeable astatine Israel, successful which helium failed to veto an anti-Israel solution successful the closing weeks of his administration.

Just hours earlier  the United Nations Security Council is slated to ballot  connected  an alleged anti-Israel solution  pushed by Algeria to enforce  an extremity  connected  the Jewish state's warfare  of self-defense against Hamas, the Biden medication  has gone soundless  astir  however  it volition  vote. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

Just hours earlier the United Nations Security Council is slated to ballot connected an alleged anti-Israel solution pushed by Algeria to enforce an extremity connected the Jewish state's warfare of self-defense against Hamas, the Biden medication has gone soundless astir however it volition vote. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivered remarks connected Monday astatine the satellite assemblage but did not code the pending draught resolution. However, she noted, "The United States has exercised enactment and resoluteness successful pursuing wide objectives: End the warfare successful Gaza — extremity the warfare successful Gaza by securing the merchandise of hostages, portion surging assistance to Palestinians, who did not commencement and cannot extremity this conflict. Avoid a broader determination warfare portion forcefully countering Iran’s violent proxies and destabilizing activities, and demonstrating an ironclad, unprecedented committedness to Israel’s security."

Fox News Digital approached the U.S. State Department and the United States mission to the U.N. for remark astir the projected draft.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield United States

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivered remarks connected Monday astatine the satellite assemblage but did not code the pending draught resolution. (Stephani Spindel/Reuters)

Anne Bayefsky, President, Human Rights Voices successful New York, told Fox News Digital, "Allies of Hamas are licking their chops astatine the imaginable of the outgoing Biden medication refusing to veto an Israel-bashing solution scheduled for adoption astatine the U.N. Security Council connected Tuesday." She claimed, "For weeks, the United States has been engaged massaging the presumption of a draft, leaked to quality outlets Al Jazeera and Al-Arabiya."

"The U.N.-U.S. cognition is to unreal it's each astir humanitarianism, erstwhile it is precisely the opposite. It guarantees to prolong the warfare and the suffering of the hostages and disregard the existent basal causes: Iran, antisemitism and the amerciable denial of Israel's close of self-defense. If adopted, it would beryllium the 5th Security Council solution President Biden has allowed to walk since Oct. 7 that doesn't adjacent condemn Hamas," she said.

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An IDF vessel  rolls done  the Netzarim Corridor successful  Gaza.

An IDF vessel rolls done the Netzarim Corridor successful Gaza. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

Speaking earlier astatine the Security Council, Israel's Ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon, criticized the draught resolution, stating, "Any solution that does not information the cease-fire connected the merchandise of the hostages means abandoning the 101 hostages to the hellhole of the violent monsters."

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President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump successful  the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, successful  Washington.

President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump successful the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Danon added, "The determination being promoted successful this Council lone strengthens Hamas and coercion and abandons the hostages. We cannot let the U.N. to necktie the hands of the State of Israel from protecting its citizens, and we volition not halt warring until we instrumentality each the kidnapped men and women home."

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