Israel can either be Jewish or democratic. It cannot be both.

This isn't about Judaism as a religion, but rather about Jews as an ethnic group. What Kerry is saying is that if a two-state solution does not come about, there will, de facto, be one sovereign state between the river and the sea, inhabited by roughly equal numbers of Jews and Palestinians. From that point on, Israel can do one of two things:

i) Accept all the Palestinians as equal citizens with political rights, thus accepting that Israel is no longer a specifically Jewish state.
ii) Deny the Palestinians equal rights, thus accepting that Israel is not a democratic state.

Agreed.

There are plenty of democratic nations with established religions, but for some reason Israel needs to be held to a special standard. As baffling as it always is.

The Obama administration has for a long time regarded Israel as a tumour in the Levant, oppressing Muslims simply by virtue of its existence. It is stupidity of the highest order. Israel is one of our only trustworthy allies in the Middle East (the only one, perhaps) and is surrounded by people who literally want to storm the walls of the country and impale every Jew inside. The UN's determination to undermine and endanger the Israeli people is one of the biggest red flags that ought to tell us to abolish the ridiculous institution.

America could either have a president with a fake birth certificate or be democratic not both

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Obama did not regard Israel as a "tumour". It just tried to say that the settlements make Israel more hated and isolated in the world, and ultimately less secure.

It baffles me that people try to claim that Obama is some raging anti-Semite with a deep hatred of Israel.

SCR 2344 was the first SCR on the IPC in 8 years, and Obama has let the least SCRs critical of Israel pass through the SCR (1) of any US President since 1967.

Not to mention the record $38 billion military aid deal he recently announced for Israel too.

If that's how pro-Israel Obama is despite hating Israel, imagine how hawkish he'd be if he didn't hate Israel!

Technically, Jewishness is not a religion. People don't have to show proof of religious practice to be considered Jewish. It's about lineage, you must have a Jewish mother to be considered Jewish. By the way, the founding fathers of Israel were not really religious, many were atheist.

Obama did not regard Israel as a "tumour". It just tried to say that the settlements make Israel more hated and isolated in the world, and ultimately less secure.

Obama's actions regarding Israel during his tenure (I think particularly of the Iran agreement, but there's plenty of material there if you want to find it) illustrates his disdain for Israel. Settlements in terms of Israel just building whole new towns might be contentious to some, but the resolution didn't just condemn that. It also condemned organic growth of settlements, IE people building second bedrooms on existing homes because they had a kid.

Not that all this really matters anyway. The 1967 borders which the Palestinian Authority likes to claim as its de jure territory were rejected by the Palestinian government at the time, before they tried to invade and conquer Israel. To that end, I don't see why there should be much furor about the settlement building whether its wholesale or piecemeal.

Yeah, Obama was one of the most pro-Israel Presidents ever, not because he wanted to support them (he notoriously hated Netanyahu), but because he didn't want to be considered as anti-Israeli by public opinion, since many people have irrationally accused him of being a traitor on any subject. Now that his career is over, he can finally express his thought. It's unfortunate that he didn't do that in the beginning of his term.

Makes no sense. All your attempts at arguments are non sequitur.

"Under George W. Bush alone, the Council passed six resolutions that Israel opposed – including one that endorsed a plan calling for a complete freeze on settlements, including natural growth."

SCR 2344 merely reaffirms the natural growth provision in SCR 1515, which was passed 15-0 in 2003. George Bush voted for SCR 1515, he didn't abstain. I wonder if he got anything near the same level of abuse and slander as Obama is getting for abstaining.

I didn't speak of the legitimacy of the settlements (for me they are totally illegal anyway). I said that the "settlements make Israel more hated and isolated in the world, and ultimately less secure".

It is absolutely insane for Israel to continue this politics that turn them into the world's pariah.