Germany to block Israel from getting a seat on the U.N. Security council?

[hollodero]

(03-21-2018, 03:45 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Yes they should, if there was such an agreement and I agree the optics are bad. Perhaps the other UN members will honor the agreement and vote Israel in. Now that would be punch in the gut to Merkle, but let her continue to make the bed for Germany.  

Well, maybe to add some context. Israel wants one of the seats that are reserved for the Europe region. Which is a bit odd to begin with, since Israel distinctly is not part of that region. They wanted to be part of Europe, and well we let them, given their situation. It was an understandable wish. But them now making additional demands... that's a bit much.

As for that promise, if this actually happened it came from Richard Holbrooke, who just isn't in the position to give binding promises in the name of all European countries to begin with. It's not like Germany signed off to anything like that (say the Germans, they also say they weren't involved in any promise making, and I'm inclined to believe them). Israel is accepted as member of the European region like every other country now, but it's not feasible to make demands about one's turn to get into the security council. They can apply and get the votes or not, like every other country.

If Israel wouldn't ignore every UN resolution, they might have a better chance. That's not on Germany really.