Israel threatens to give Trump 'evidence' that Obama orchestrated UN resolution
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Source: The Guardian
Israel has escalated its already furious war with the outgoing US administration, claiming that it has rather hard evidence that Barack Obama was behind a critical UN security council resolution criticising Israeli settlement building, and threatening to hand over the material to Donald Trump. . .. The claims have emerged in interviews given by close Netanyahu allies to US media outlets on Monday after the Obama administration denied in categorical terms the claims originally made by Netanyahu himself.
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Doubling down on the claim a few hours later the controversial Israeli ambassador to Washington, Ron Dermer, went even further suggesting it had gathered evidence that it would present to the incoming Trump administration.We will present this evidence to the new administration through the appropriate channels. If they want to share it with the American people, they are welcome to do it, Dermer told CNN.. . . Dermer is a controversial figure in Washington, blamed by the Obama administration for organising the invitation for Netanyahu to address the US Congress in the midst of Israels campaign against the Iran nuclear deal. His comments on CNN seem to represent an even more egregious breach of protocol, not least over the vague sourcing of the evidence alluded to by Keyes and Dermer. Indeed, Israel was accused by unnamed US officials in a Newsweek article two years ago of very sobering alarming even terrifying levels of espionage targeting the US refuted as a malicious fabrication aimed at harming relations by then foreign minister Avigor Lieberman.
Last year, however, US officials again accused Israel of spying, this time on the Iran nuclear talks, with one telling the Wall Street Journal: It is one thing for the US and Israel to spy on each other. It is another thing for Israel to steal US secrets and play them back to US legislators to undermine US diplomacy. Dermers threat on CNN to hand information to Trump would seem to replicate some of those concerns.
Israels threat to present evidence on a sitting president, and one of Israels closest ally, to an incoming presidential team and to do it so publicly appears almost unprecedented.
The moves appear part of a high risk and even more highly partisan strategy on Netanyahus part, tying the future of Israel to a highly unpredictable Republican president-elect with no experience of public office and who comes from the very fringes even of the party he stood as candidate for. The US has already denied the claim made by Israel in the strongest terms. . .
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/26/israel-un-resolution-settlements-obama-trump?
Outrageous.
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(FYI, you might want to fix that typo: I assume you meant "attack" rather than "attach"?
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They are playing with fire 
