Arab nations are putting to a vote a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza, knowing it will be vetoed by the United States but hoping to show broad global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war.
And now China is condemning it. Like, wtf. I honestly don’t know why we are blocking U.N. action on this. It’s brazenly pro-ethnic cleansing. It’s not like there’s wiggle room to debate, there’s no room. It’s just plainly a mass killing of a minority population that was already living under apartheid conditions.
Are our political leaders just religious enough to quake in fear at the thought of angering their abrahamic diety? Or is this confirmation that there really IS a powerful zionist cabal that can manipulate US foreign policy?
I mean, both are conspiratorial stretches, but wtf else could biden hang this decision on?
He also talks about values, but if they “would have to invent an Israel to protect [their] interests in the region”, then it sounds like values just don’t fucking matter, because any bloc of warm bodies will do as long as they’re willing to be the US’s proxy.
He’s also said that no Jewish person is safe unless Israel exists which… why? Are they not safe in the United States for some reason? Why is Jewish safety contingent on Israel’s existence? Coming from the biggest power broker in the world, that kind of sounds like a threat. It kind of sounds like he wants them to go to Israel and not stay in the US.
Also, a ceasefire is better for stability and safety in the entire region, which means it’s in the interests of Israeli civilians to have a ceasefire. Given Biden is vetoing it, it doesn’t sound like their safety is really in the front of his mind. You don’t wield an entire nation like a weapon held out at arm’s length if you value their people’s sanctity and dignity. You do it if they are expendable to you.
If they didn’t veto it what would happen? Is there an article like NATO that would stipulate that the UN counties would go to war… I didn’t think there was. So I am unsure if would have any change.
Resolutions made by the UN security council (which this would have been) can be enforced through the UN peacekeeping mission (aka the blue helmets) by stationing UN troops along the contact line to prevent hostilities from resuming. This has had mixed success in the past, there is actually a peacekeeping mission stationed right now on the Israel/Lebanon border which hasn’t prevented either side from shooting at each other after the October 7 attack.
That’s good to know. So does that just require a majority vote? (Which if this wasn’t vetoed would have been a landslide). Or does it require some other percentage?
The UN is not a military defense organisation la NATO. It has military efforts, but they are all Pacific in the sense that they don’t take part and only help the civilian population (e.g.: running medical and food supplies, or protecting hospitals, etc.)
The UN could go for economic and political sanctions, or try to move this in the Hague Courts in case the request goes unheard.
And the US is going to veto it because…?
They did already. They are Israel’s bitches.
US was actually the only country to veto. Does not look good tbf
And now China is condemning it. Like, wtf. I honestly don’t know why we are blocking U.N. action on this. It’s brazenly pro-ethnic cleansing. It’s not like there’s wiggle room to debate, there’s no room. It’s just plainly a mass killing of a minority population that was already living under apartheid conditions.
Are our political leaders just religious enough to quake in fear at the thought of angering their abrahamic diety? Or is this confirmation that there really IS a powerful zionist cabal that can manipulate US foreign policy?
I mean, both are conspiratorial stretches, but wtf else could biden hang this decision on?
Biden has been crystal clear that this is entirely about power politics:
“It is the best 3 billion dollar investment we make. Were there not an Israel the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.” (go to 27 seconds for his more militant delivery from decades ago; his message has not substantially changed)
He also talks about values, but if they “would have to invent an Israel to protect [their] interests in the region”, then it sounds like values just don’t fucking matter, because any bloc of warm bodies will do as long as they’re willing to be the US’s proxy.
He’s also said that no Jewish person is safe unless Israel exists which… why? Are they not safe in the United States for some reason? Why is Jewish safety contingent on Israel’s existence? Coming from the biggest power broker in the world, that kind of sounds like a threat. It kind of sounds like he wants them to go to Israel and not stay in the US.
Also, a ceasefire is better for stability and safety in the entire region, which means it’s in the interests of Israeli civilians to have a ceasefire. Given Biden is vetoing it, it doesn’t sound like their safety is really in the front of his mind. You don’t wield an entire nation like a weapon held out at arm’s length if you value their people’s sanctity and dignity. You do it if they are expendable to you.
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If they didn’t veto it what would happen? Is there an article like NATO that would stipulate that the UN counties would go to war… I didn’t think there was. So I am unsure if would have any change.
Resolutions made by the UN security council (which this would have been) can be enforced through the UN peacekeeping mission (aka the blue helmets) by stationing UN troops along the contact line to prevent hostilities from resuming. This has had mixed success in the past, there is actually a peacekeeping mission stationed right now on the Israel/Lebanon border which hasn’t prevented either side from shooting at each other after the October 7 attack.
That’s good to know. So does that just require a majority vote? (Which if this wasn’t vetoed would have been a landslide). Or does it require some other percentage?
UN general assembly majority vote, but security council, the permanent members all need to agree as even one nay is a veto.
So that would mean if the U.S. eventually doesn’t veto it, Russia might as it has clearly been to their benefit.
What a stupid world we live in.
The UN is not a military defense organisation la NATO. It has military efforts, but they are all Pacific in the sense that they don’t take part and only help the civilian population (e.g.: running medical and food supplies, or protecting hospitals, etc.)
The UN could go for economic and political sanctions, or try to move this in the Hague Courts in case the request goes unheard.