Sen. Lindsey Graham (R- S.C.) promised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Saturday night that Congress would react strongly to any United Nations Security Council (UNSC) efforts to impose a peace settlement on Israel. Graham also referred to statements made by President Barack Obama saying that he agreed with the sentiment that “the United Nations was not the right venue when it came to discussing the peace process in reaching a two-state solution.”

The Jerusalem Post reported:

Graham, who is also expected to continue as a member of the powerful Armed Services Committee, said, “Any effort by the French, the Jordanians or anyone to avoid direct negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians over the peace process, anyone who tries to take this to the UN Security Council, there will be a violent backlash by Congress that could include suspending funding to the United Nations.” Congress, he said, “will not sit back and allow the United Nations to take over the peace process.”

His words came a day after lead PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said in an al-Arabiya interview that the Palestinians would bring their proposal for a full IDF withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines by 2017, to a vote in the Security Council by Monday.

Earlier this month Graham teamed with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) to issue a bipartisan call for the Obama  administration to veto any UNSC resolution that supported unilateral Palestinian efforts to impose a peace deal on Israel.

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