Next up: Betrayal at the UN?

Two prominent American friends of Israel — one liberal, one conservative — warned in the Five Towns over the weekend that President Obama, freed of pre-election constraints, may betray Israel in the United Nations Security Council.

“On the day after the election, I predict that President Obama is going to seriously consider giving the Israeli peace process to the U.N.,” civil rights attorney and staunch defender of Israel Alan Dershowitz said during “An Evening in Discussion” with Rabbi Hershel Billet at the Young Israel of Woodmere on motzei Shabbos.

“That would be a disaster — a disaster for the peace process,” said Dershowitz, a liberal Democrat who said he voted twice for President Obama and planned to vote for Hillary Clinton. He stressed the importance of Israel maintaining friends on the political left so that the Jewish state retains its traditional bi-partisan support in Washington.

“If President Obama tries to tie the hands of the incoming president, we’re going to have a real problem,” he said.

On Sunday afternoon at Congregation Beth Shalom in Lawrence, Pulizer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens echoed Dershowitz’s warning when he addressed the National Conference of Religous Zionists of America-Mizrachi.

“Friends are watching wearily as a lame-duck Barack Obama eyes his options for fresh intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process,” he said.

Stephens, a conservative who derided Trump as “a demagogue —period,” said that “the likelihood of Obama pulling a fast one at the U.N. increases with a Trump victory because in that case he feels no obligation toward his successor.”