US’ support for Israel’s defence and vetoing ‘hostile resolutions’ will be ‘maintained’

Liberal Senator Dave Sharma says the US’ support for Israel’s defence and continued vetoing of “hostile resolutions” will be “maintained” despite a ceasefire motion passing in the UN Security Council. Israeli senior officials cancelled a visit to Washington in retaliation for the US abstaining from voting UN Security Council’s demand for a ceasefire in Gaza. “This is a complicated picture,” Mr Sharma told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “But I’d say that interestingly enough or strangely enough, both Netanyahu and Biden have a degree of domestic political interests in having a bit of a difference of opinion over these issues. “But I think the fundamentals of US support for Israel defence assistance, military assistance, and vetoing any hostile resolutions will be maintained.”