Will Germany Block Israel From Finally Getting A Seat On The U.N. Security Council?

Try this for a guessing game: which European country decided it would renege on a deal its colleagues agreed to whereby Israel would finally get a chance to sit on the U.N. Security Council after spending decades being the only country in the United Nations that was ineligible?

You would think after wiping out six million Jews, Germany would not be that country, but you’d be wrong. As Benny Avni writes in the New York Post, after U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke finally succeeded in the 1990s in getting a group of Western countries, including the U.S., Australia, Canada, and European countries west of the Berlin wall to admit Israel to their group, as the countries in the Middle East shut Israel out of their bloc, Israel agreed to wait 20 years to be eligible for a seat. In return, the group assured Israel that in 2019, Israel and Belgium would run uncontested for the two open 2019-20 seats.