The United Nations Security Council has postponed a vote on a draft resolution demanding that Israel halt its illegal settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier urged the United States to use its veto power at the council to block the resolution.

Responding to calls by Israeli authorities, US President-elect Donald Trump in a statement issued early on Thursday called for the veto of the resolution.

Washington has shielded Tel Aviv against such moves at the Security Council on several other occasions in the past, including a similar one in 2011.

Anthony Hall, editor-in-chief of American Herald Tribune, believes Trump is acting in a way that makes the imperial expansionists in Israel very happy.

“Israel is an expansionary project much like the United States was an expansionary project, a transcontinental expansionary project, Israel is replicating and it seems the president-elect of the United States is on side. He is in a way subordinating himself to the higher authority of the Israeli… [regime],” the analyst told Press TV in an interview on Friday.

He also said that US President Barack Obama’s administration was lining up to abstain and make a statement that the so-called two-state solution should be kept alive because the constant building of settlements in a way obliterates the possibility of a viable two-state solution.

However, he said, it seems that Obama is backing down and the torch is being handed to the expansionists.

Hall further noted that the settlement expansion “epitomizes disrespect for law,” and that it is all about power.

The analyst also argued that Trump is betraying the promises he made during his campaign for presidency, and that he is becoming a manifestation of all the things he condemned former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for.

“Of course Donald Trump in his campaign for presidency pointed out the criminality and the complete neglect of the rule of law and the subordination of the rule of law to the mere grabs for power, for wealth, and this is an example of Donald Trump falling exactly into the categories that he identified on his way to the presidency,” he said.