Israel offers Trump opportunity for Republican-Democrat reconciliation

that the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 undermined the long-standing position of the United States to oppose and veto United Nations Security Council resolutions that seek to impose solutions to final status issues, or are one-sided and anti- Israel, reversing decades of bipartisan agreement.

3. The Senate's vote 96-4 on 24 January 2017:

Confirming South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as ambassador to the United Nations.

During her confirmation hearing Haley told the Senate:

Nowhere has the UN's failure been more consistent and more outrageous than it is -- than its bias against our close ally Israel. And the General Assembly session just completed, the UN adopted 20 resolutions against Israel. And only six targeting the rest of the world's countries combined. In the past ten years, the human rights council has passed 62 resolutions condemning the reasonable actions Israel takes to defend its security. Meanwhile, the world's worst human rights abusers in Syria, Iran, and North Korea, received far fewer condemnations. This cannot continue.

In the two months since her appointment Haley has:

• Blocked the appointment of former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as the UN's special representative for Libya.
• Rebuked the UN's Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia for publishing a report characterizing Israel as an "apartheid state" - pressuring its leadership to retract the document and Commission head Rima Khalaf to resign days later.

Trump's yet to be announced policy on resolving the Jewish-Arab conflict needs to be based on these three bipartisan massive-majority decisions - guaranteeing that Congress will overwhelmingly endorse Trump's detailed peace-making proposals when finally formulated for Congress ratification.

Unity is strength – division is weakness.