Israel Hayom has a bombshell report that in the waning days of the Obama administration, there was an attempt to stab Israel in the back even more than the infamous UNSC 2334 that said that settlements violated international law.
According to the report, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu asked Vladimir Putin to veto 2334, and he refused. But Obama, in the waning days of his administration, tried to push a much worse resolution to force Israel to establish a Palestinian state on the basis of the 1948 lines.
Netanyahu tried his luck again with the Russian president. he called up Putin and explained that such a move would severely hurt regional stability.
This time, Putin was convinced and informed Netanyahu that if the resolution goes to a vote, Russia will stop it.
According to what Netanyahu has said recently , the Russian intention to veto the US move against Israel became known to Obama. The outgoing president understood that if Russia were to veto this resolution in the Security Council, it would severely undermine the credibility of the United States as an ally of Israel and its own image in the Jewish community - and so he decided to shelve the initiative.
If the story is true, it is another example of Bibi’s brilliance at foreign policy.