JERUSALEM POST
Congressman to Obama on UN Israel action: ‘Read this letter very carefully’
by Michael Wilner
April 16, 2016

At least 90 percent of the House of Representatives opposes “one-sided” action at the UN Security Council on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a letter endorsed by 394 members this week– a clear message to the Obama administration, according to one of its authors, Rep. Nita Lowey of New York. Several congressmen worked on the letter, sent to the White House amid fresh Palestinian and European efforts to affect the conflict through international bodies. Lowey, a Democrat and ranking member on the House Appropriations Subcommittee, told The Jerusalem Post on Friday that the administration had vetoed similar resolutions in the past– and that its reasoning for such vetoes “still applies today.” READ MORE