(AhlulBayt News Agency) - "The resolution being considered at the United Nations Security Council regarding Israel should be vetoed," the incoming Republican president said in a statement issued early on Thursday.
"As the United States has long maintained, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties, and not through the imposition of terms by the United Nations," he said.
The UN Security Council is scheduled to vote on the resolution, drafted by Egypt, on Thursday.
Earlier, according to reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the US veto the resolution demands that “Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem" because they are a "flagrant violation" of international law.
The resolution calls for “the cessation of all Israeli settlement activities is essential for salvaging the two-state solution," stating that the activities are dangerously imperiling” and threatening the viability of any future Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank.
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