US vetoes UN Security Council action on Israel, Gaza
US vetoes UN Security Council action on Israel, Gaza
The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would have called for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants to allow humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip.
Of fucking course we did...
I understand why the first proposal from Russia was rejected, but this one should have been pretty uncontroversial. This is really a WTF moment for US diplomacy.
This is really a WTF moment for US diplomacy.
Not really, considering the US's past actions and decisions, especially regarding Israel.
Honestly it is completely normal for the US to veto these actions against Israel. Basically for anything to get through the security council it has to be targeting some one who is not friends of one of the 5 permanent members; The USA, The UK, France, China, and Russia. So that happens almost never. By the way the permanent members were all the counties that had atomic bombs at the time of formation. Not that is relevant to this discussion but a great little mind fuck factoid.
What, like we're going to break our streak now? To governments, human lives are spreadsheet entries at best.
"We believe we need to let that diplomacy play out."
Is that what we're calling it now?
I'm shocked. Shocked. Well not that shocked.
does anyone know another word for complicit, I'm tired of saying it
Washington traditionally shields its ally Israel from any Security Council action.
The rest of the article is extra.
Came here to say this... The US has been doing this for decades.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The vote on the Brazilian-drafted text was twice delayed in the past couple of days as the United States tries to broker aid access to Gaza.
Ambassador Zhang Jun accused the United States of leading council members to believe that the resolution could be adopted after it did not comment or express opposition during negotiations.
Thomas-Greenfield said the United States was disappointed the draft resolution made no mention of Israel's rights of self defense and she blamed Hamas for the Gaza humanitarian crisis.
The draft resolution also urged Israel - without naming it - to rescind its order for civilians and U.N. staff in Gaza to move to the south of the Palestinian enclave and condemns "the terrorist attacks by Hamas."
It has vowed to annihilate Hamas after the Islamist militant group killed 1,400 people and seized hostages in an Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
The draft U.N. resolution condemned all violence and hostilities against civilians and all acts of terrorism and called for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.
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We are no strangers to genicides so no surprise here. How did Israel, founded by genicide survivers become the ones doing the genicide?! (rhetorical)
Genocide, uh, finds a way.
From an evolutionary perspective, the history of life is made from genocides, with survivors riding on top. Everybody's fighting for their niche.
Similarly, the abrahamic religions compete for their access to the Holy Land.
There's also a literal loophole in the regional morality system where once hostages are taken almost everyone is down to start war criming.
"We are on the ground doing the hard work of diplomacy," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told the 15-member council after the vote. "We believe we need to let that diplomacy play out."
"Yes, resolutions are important. And yes, this council must speak out. But the actions we take must be informed by the facts on the ground and support direct diplomacy efforts. That can save lives. The council needs to get this right," she said.
US not only want to play hero, they want to play THE hero it seems.
Russia veto: GENOCIDAL MANIACS
US veto: Go Go Israel <3
We need a new UN without the US. It is only there as Israel's PR spokesman.
Can we also get rid of all the Arabic countries passing countless resolutions about Israel in the UN? Pretending they don't have a bias is like pretending SA is a bastion of women's rights.
It is not like Israel has been a human-rights role-model. You can open whichever human rights watch group and see what they think about it, or Wikipedia.
And the whole reason Israel exists as a country is thanks to the UN.
Ah, yes. those Arabic countries like *checks notes* Brazil
Time to kick the US to the curb. Fuck em and their Christian BS. Do what must be done rest of the world. Permanent trade sanctions for Israel!
I'm not clear on what the action proposed to do. I read both the article and the bot summary. Sort of lost on the jargon I guess. Could anyone explain, perhaps with a quote?
Time to kick the US to the curb. Fuck em and their Christian BS. Do what must be done rest of the world. Permanent trade sanctions for Israel!
This article glosses over why the US officials representing USA vetoed and this kind of journalism sucks fat cock, so I'm going to claim my own made up reason and you all have to agree with it; USA vetoes due to the Uzbekistan official sitting nearby not share this mornings apple sauce cup at their UN daycare.
So why are US officials really vetoing these? Is there like, a better article? You got a hunch? I'll take anything. Well except a morning without applesauce.
My uneducated thoughts are that because Hamas are too embedded into Palestinian society and have essentially infiltrated every aspect of their government, the correct strategic maneuver is to eliminate the Palestinian government and install another puppet government as a replacement in order to destroy Hamas.
They cannot do this without carte blanche approval from the major world superpowers to invade and target civilians who are involved in Islamic terrorism. The ultimate goal, I believe is to absorb more land into Israel and deny Palestinians Gaza completely by the next decade.
Again, this is my uneducated thoughts.