The Israeli government reached out to President-elect Donald Trump for help in pressuring the Obama administration to veto a UN Security Council resolution condemning “settlement activity”, a senior Israeli official told CNN on Thursday.
The vote on the resolution, which was submitted by Egypt and had been scheduled for Thursday afternoon, was postponed indefinitely after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi instructed his country’s UN delegation to push for a delay in the vote.
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