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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]"Good job Obama"?  How does abstaining serve the U.S.'s national interests in any way?[/quote]

It serves US interests by showing that we support a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. If Israel continues to steal all the Palestinian land, there won't be room for a Palestinian state. Israel is then left with two options: forceful expulsion of the Palestinians or Apartheid. Some would argue that Israel has already chosen Apartheid.

As the vote shows, there is no international support for Israeli settlements. Even in the US there is not much support. It serves US interests not to be isolated from world opinion, especially at a time when we are attempting to argue against foreign occupations by Russia. 
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I disagree this impacts anything for policy other than annoying Israel and creating more paperwork and wasted time in the future.  If Obama wanted to do anything big in his term he just would have offered to claim eminent domain moved Israel to New Jersey.  It would be a lot cheaper in the near term and long term and been a potential sustainable peace solution that the world would have applauded and probably awarded him Nobel Peace Prizes in perpetuity for.

Israel abandoned the 2 state solution in the early 50's - it is all just talk to make people feel better about themselves.  I think the Palestinians and Muslims in general in the region should prepare for things to get a lot more one sided against them in the near term.  Trump works some deals with Putin, ME goes in a form of lock down with Russia "protecting" them from dire Israeli/US policy.  ISIS/Extremists are rounded up with dictators du jour.  Russia keeps Iran in check. Israel continues to flourish.  About 5 years or so later you have 10x the level of animosity against Israel and US and things get bad.  Odds are Russia comes in as our ally to help the war of civilizations and ergo a weird WW3.
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