A draft resolution backed by Kuwait and by the Palestinian Authority is headed to the UN Security Council this week, seeking the creation of an international force in the Gaza Strip to prevent further Israeli attacks on the area.
The Security Council resolution likely will have a majority of votes, but the US has signaled that they will veto it. Both the US and Israel are feverishly working to try to kill any support for the resolution. Israeli envoy Danny Danon claims the resolution would be a violation of Israel’s sovereignty, and amounts to a support of war crimes.
The draft is unlikely to die in the Security Council, however, with Palestinian officials saying they intend to advance the matter to the UN General Assembly after a US veto. A General Assembly vote would be non-binding, but still significant.
Earlier this month, the US vetoed a resolution calling for an independent international probe of civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip. The UN Human Rights Council subsequently announced such a probe despite the veto.
Growing international disquiet over the civilian deaths in Gaza seems lost on the US and Israel, who are insisting that not only were the killings legally permissible, but that any questioning of the deaths is tantamount to terrorism itself.
Various official and semi-official UN reports make explicit reference to the Uniting for Peace resolution as providing a mechanism for the UN General Assembly to overrule any UN Security Council vetoes. The US created this mechanism to use against Soviet vetoes. With the recent overwhelming votes, this is invited against the US. It is only a matter of time, especially as the prestige of the US sinks under the weight of Trump.
Good one. Never heard of it.
Good Israel/US… keep the position as insane as possible. You’re not responsible for the humanitarian situation in Gaza, but Israel governs it as sovereign Israeli territory. There must be no investigations when we kill large numbers of unarmed people. By definition only the Palestinian side can do terrorism or commit war crimes.
I have been saying for at least a decade that when it comes US behavior we can with 100% certainty expect it to worsen.
Can it worsen even more than its present behavior towards Gazans? I suppose it can if it would bomb or nuke N.Korea, Pashtunstani regions, Iran or even Syria.
And, of course, make poor Americans poorer, dumber, more scared, etc.
It is long overdue to put troops to protect the people of Gaza from the continued brutal attacks by the overly armed Israel military. Nikki cried what kind of people gas people while crying Israel used restrain used tear gas at a level which killed at least one baby. The black eye Israel is getting should get their attention. They will lose the victim game if they do not change.
50,000 racist Palestinians were attempting to invade Israel to murder the Jews in those houses behind the fence. How should Israel have stopped them?
Here’s what Palestinian kids see on Palestinian TV:
• A song in a children’s cartoon includes the lyrics, “Zionist man, run away, Zionist woman, run away, very soon you’ll be killed by a car.”
• A Palestinian singer is shown in another clip, singing the lyrics, “Oh Martyrdom-seeker, make them cry. Make the fire engulf them. Turn them into body parts, roast them.”
• A Palestinian child declaims in a speech into which he has been indoctrinated, “Oh sons of Zion, oh the most evil of creatures, oh barbaric apes.”
• In a children’s TV show, a Mickey Mouse figures asks a child, “How will you sacrifice your soul for the sake of Al-Aqsa? Was will you do? The child replies, “I will shoot. We want to… We will annihilate the Jews”
Nice satire, but why is it that all of your hubris is not true?? Do you enjoy embracing mass murdering psychos..being the Israeli government, and IDF??
You have no idea what Palestinians see, because most do not have tv’s, or the electricity to power them thanks to the vile, and illegitimate Israeli government.
The Gaza protests were peaceful until the IDF began their gleeful campaign of mass murder, and maiming. Find a tall tree and hang yourself for the good of humanity…
The chosen ones have no need to follow the laws of normal humans. The magic expanding border of israel manages to be wherever the ‘IDF’ decides to attack unarmed people.
In the past 30 years, Israel has annexed ZERO territory.
What are you smoking?
Perfect, democratic, peaceful cooperative actions, of course.
Liar it has been building illegal squatter dwellings on Palestinian land via the West Bank, and has annexed most of East Jerusalem illegally. The Zionist menace is also illegally building in the Golan Heights…Syrian territory. Get a grip Ariel..
Israel is the only country in the world that refuses to define what its boundaries are.
Official borders are set by treaty. Israel has treaties with Egypt & Jordan so it has official borders with Egypt & Jordan. There’s no treaty with Palestine so there’s no official border with Palestine.
So that is all right then?
I would like to see a peace treaty.
How about you?
There are official borders with Palestine, but the Zionist menace ignores them, just like it ignores the countless resolutions in the UN…because it hides behind the US veto! Israel is a hopeless terrorist state that sooner than later will feel real pain. Hope you are there when it happens…Troll.
This is probably the smartest solution to Gaza blockade. The fact that Israel resists is evidence of their real intention being simply punitive actions and suppression of the Gaza refugees.
The world needs to join BDS and sanction the Likud.
BDS is racist because it treats Israelis as members of a group rather than as individuals.
BDS is collective punishment. BDS says: “I don’t care if you’re innocent or guilty, if you’re Israeli, I’m going to make you suffer.” 575,000 Iraqi children died from sanctions. BDS is immoral.
The 18 worst countries for human rights in 2017 were Syria, North Korea, South Sudan, Somalia, Central African Republic, Libya, Yemen, China, Burundi, DR Congo, Afghanistan, Burma, Pakistan, Lebanon, Mali, Nigeria, Ukraine & Mexico.
Why is there BDS against Israel, but no BDS against the 18 worst?
BDS targets Israeli government policies in a nonviolent manner, promoting change to the racist and criminal conduct they have towards the Palestinians, very much like stopping Apartheid in S Africa, it is a blunt process and some innocent folks suffer in the short term, but millions of Palestinians are subjugated on a daily basis by this regime and it needs to stop.
How are Palestinians subjugated? Please be specific.
Please do not pretend to be so ignorant. Watch the news, read some media NOT owned by Zionists. They are available.
The goal of BDS is to make sure that there is no longer a majority-Jewish country. Omar Bargouti, the founder of BDS, said:
“A Jewish state in Palestine in any shape or form cannot but contravene the basic rights of the indigenous Palestinian population and perpetuate a system of racial discrimination that ought to be opposed categorically….Definitely, most definitely we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No Palestinian, rational Palestinian, not a sell-out Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”
Is that your goal, too?
The goal of the founder of X /= the goal of X.
Israel has given BDS a great boon in its worldwide support. The IDF terror machine commits mass murder/maiming on tv because they THINK they can get away with it..They won’t. Israel can run its big mouth, and pay low life trolls like you to come here, but people worldwide know the truth.
All of your glib hasbara, and beating down the Palestinian people has failed. Israel is a morally dead failed state who should quit the UN, before it get’s thrown out. It only gets worse for the Zionist menace and people like you…pass the popcorn…Troll.
Trump is certainly all in on Israel First in the Mid-East.