On Tuesday, theTrumpet.com wrote, “Whatever the outcome of Annapolis, the months prior to the conference have already revealed a dangerous erosion of U.S. support for Israel. … The strain on U.S.-Israeli relations has never been greater.” On Friday, the New York Sunreported,

In an unusual move, America’s U.N. mission yesterday circulated a proposal to the Security Council supporting agreements reached at Annapolis between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs—before the text had been examined closely by Jerusalem, America’s closest Middle Eastern ally.After closed-door consultations among the council’s 15 members, diplomats from China and the only Arab member, Qatar—and some Palestinian Arabs—expressed support for the American proposal. But while the American ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, hailed the council members’ backing, his Israeli colleague, Dan Gillerman, said he knew “very little” about the proposed resolution.For years, America had raised the ire of Arabs and their U.N. supporters, vetoing and otherwise preventing anti-Israeli resolutions at the Security Council. But even in cases when resolutions on the Israeli-Arab dispute passed, at times to Israel’s discontent, Washington and Jerusalem officials had closely consulted on them beforehand, as did American and Israeli diplomats at the United Nations. By contrast, yesterday’s council consultations took place at the same time that Mr. Gillerman carried a speech several doors down, at the General Assembly halls, commemorating the anniversary of the November 29, 1947, assembly resolution that partitioned British-held Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state.