US vetoes UN resolution backed by many nations demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza
US vetoes UN resolution backed by many nations demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza
I'm pretty sure Israel's strategy here is "it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission (for genocide). They will completely destroy Palestine and essentially wipe out the people, and then say "sorry, but what are you gonna do, you're capitalists, so now lets sign this trade deal and move on without those pesky Palestinians existing anymore."
Damn, that's too accurate.
I can also see Israel's assassins taking out any stragglers in remaining nations and getting away with it.
And then lecture the world on human rights when Russia do the same with Ukraine. What a shameless administration.
Every few days I wonder how different life in America might be if Bernie won.
I don’t think it’d be much different. Democrats vs republicans would limit any president.
US president is like any other job like your average Joe. He has a process to follow.
Similar to software developers they don’t choose what features to add. He’s an executor.
The UN is like the Michael Phelps of creating resolutions that involved parties won't recognize.
They're really great at singling out the bad guys though. We now know every country that vetoed or abstained supports genocide and is owned by israel.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a vain effort to press the Biden administration to drop its opposition to calling for a halt to the fighting, the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey were all in Washington on Friday.
Along with the vote, the Arab diplomats’ mission served to shift responsibility more squarely onto the United States for protecting Israel from growing demands to stop the airstrikes that are killing thousands of Palestinian civilians.
Ambassador Nicolas De Rivière of France, a veto-wielding permanent council member who supported the resolution, lamented its lack of unity and pleaded “for a new, immediate and lasting humanitarian truce that should lead to a sustainable cease-fire.”
The council called the emergency meeting to hear from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who for the first time invoked Article 99 of the U.N. Charter, which enables a U.N. chief to raise threats he sees to international peace and security.
Guterres said he raised Article 99 — which hadn’t been used at the U.N. since 1971 — because “there is a high risk of the total collapse of the humanitarian support system in Gaza.” The U.N. anticipates this would result in “a complete breakdown of public order and increased pressure for mass displacement into Egypt,” he warned.
And Louis Charbonneau, U.N. director at Human Rights Watch, said that by providing weapons and diplomatic cover to Israel “as it commits atrocities, including collectively punishing the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza, the U.S. risks complicity in war crimes.”
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Ceasefire without a plan is as useless as no ceasfire. There was a ceasfire on October 7th and that didn't stop Hamas from slaughtering all those innocents or firing thousands of rockets. That's the usual way all these ceasefires have ended.