"Those waiting for the Obama administration's much-hyped decision on whether to abandon Israel at the United Nations will have to keep waiting. Foreign Policy's Colum Lynch is reporting that the Obama administration has been pushing its European allies to postpone a vote at the UN, designed to pressure Israel over the contours of a two-state solution, until after President Obama concludes a nuclear deal with Iran...
But that's not wholly positive news. After all, if Obama wants to postpone UN action on Israel because he doesn't want to fight with the pro-Israel U.S. Congress, that suggests that the action he wants to take at the UN would anger the pro-Israel Congress. Here the prediction takes a distinctly negative turn. Were Obama planning to unequivocally support Israel at the UN, he surely needn't worry about congressional opposition...
Allowing Iran a much freer hand in the region–which, it must be conceded, Obama is already doing–would harm America's traditional allies, especially Israel...
The president seems to want to side against Israel on this issue, but believes he just doesn't have the political capital to take such a drastic step.
Yet he also doesn't want to side with Israel on the issue because he doesn't want to go on record against a peace plan that he really supports. So he doesn't want the vote to ever actually take place.
Perhaps he just wants the vote to be a looming threat to quiet Israel's opposition to the Iran deal. Whatever the case, he won't be able to put off the UN vote forever. And that's when we'll see if the president who took the extraordinary step of downgrading the U.S.-Israel military alliance while Israel was at war is also ready to downgrade the U.S.-Israel diplomatic alliance and unleash the full prejudice of the United Nations on the Jewish state."