The UN Security Council passed a resolution on Wednesday that called for a temporary pause to the fighting in Gaza. Tel Aviv said the call for a short peace was a decision “disconnected from reality and holds no significance.”
The resolution passed the UN’s most powerful body in a vote of 12-0. The US and UK did not vote for the motion because it did not condemn Hamas. Russia abstained over concerns that the resolution did not make a strong enough call for peace. Moscow’s representative said Washington is responsible for removing the word “ceasefire” from the text.
The resolution called for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow aid to reach Palestinian civilians and for “the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups, especially children, as well as ensuring immediate humanitarian access.” The AP reports the language in the resolution was watered down.
In response to the Security Council passing its first resolution on the war in Gaza, Tel Aviv said it would ignore the call for a humanitarian pause. “The decision is disconnected from reality and holds no significance,” Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, said. “Israel already operates in Gaza according to international law, while Hamas terrorists will ignore the decision and certainly not act in accordance with it. Israel will continue its actions until the destruction of Hamas and the return of the kidnapped.”
Tel Aviv has resisted all calls or agreements even to pause its onslaught against Gaza. VICE News reports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a hostage agreement because he wanted to free the captives using the Israeli military. “It’s clear the Israelis wanted a ground offensive underway before considering this proposal, which has been on the table since the first days of the conflict,” a regional diplomat said.
A NATO official told the outlet, “Netanyahu can now look at the Israeli public and tell them his firm action with the ground offensive is what freed some hostages.” The source added, “[Netanyahu] sees a short-term political gain to arguing the offensive forced Hamas into concessions but he doesn’t seem to fear explaining how hostages might have died in air strikes while the same deal was available.”
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Tel Aviv raided the al-Shifa Hospital, the largest and most modern medical facility in Gaza, to pressure Hamas into accepting an agreement on Israeli terms. Tel Aviv has been pushing for a hostage release that includes as short a pause to fighting as possible.
Israeli War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz says even if Tel Aviv agrees to a short pause to military operations in Gaza, it plans to settle the war with its military. “Even if we are required to pause fighting in order to return our hostages, there will be no stopping the combat and the war until we achieve our goals,” he said.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
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He’s trying to spin the embarrasment at the abscence of Hamas HQ at al-Shifa Hospital, the loudly proclaimed objective necessity for the unfortunate “human shields”, into something more human, concern for his fellow citizens.
They are just massacring civilians. Then blame Hamas for using civilians as a human shield. Of course, no one believes them but they don’t care. They think they got a good pretext for the ethnic cleansing.
Yup, AIPAC has bribed a critical mass on US representatives to turn traitor https://candidates.aipacpac.org/page/featured/
Bribery is illegal,so if you have evidence-post it,and refer it to the US attorney.
Right from their site:
“We supported 365 pro-Israel Democratic and Republican candidates in 2022 with more than $17 million in direct support through AIPAC.”
https://www.aipacpac.org/
Of course this and other bribery has been legalized (or I should say legalized more) thanks to the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United.
It’s one of the main reasons the federal government has lost its legitimacy. Instead of a government of, by, and for the people, its a state in service to monied interests of the oligarchs. AIPAC is only one of many such monied interests, but they have the distinction of serving the interests of a foreign state.
There are two separate sets of international law:
(A) One for the United States and Israel; and
(B) One for the remainder of the world.
There are atrocities and war crimes being committed on a huge scale. I am ashamed to say that I live in a country which is enabling these crimes.
I as well Andy.
The feeling of helplessness is terrible.
And I am also ashamed that our federal “representatives” represent AIPAC and other billionaires who bribed them, not voters like you and I.
Yes,Hamas committed invaded another country and committed brutal massacres,and is now holding 3 year old children as hostages.
Two points. You said that Hanas invaded another country – wrong, Palestine, or more accurately Gaza, is not a country, it is the largest concentration camp in the World. It is a living hell, where the IDF have been slaughtering Palestinians for decades, whilst the World looked on and did nothing. Second point, you nad others think that this started on 7th October 2023, when in fact it has been going on since 1948.
The occupied in Gaza and the West Bank do not have the vote in Israeli politics, do not have passports, unemployment is 50% (70% among the young men), Israel lets in just enough food to satisfy caloric values just above starvation.
Gaza is part of Palestine,the other part are the Palestinian holdings on the West Bank. Fedayeen from Gaza slaughtered Israelis for decades.
Jake, Julio, Burns, whoever you are, you are well aware that the Palestinians have been occupied for 75 years, have endured a blockade for 16 years, are enclosed in a concentration camp. Yes, the attack on 7Oct23 was a atrocity ( according to the dictionary description), but consider also that it was a breakout from the concentration camp that was made more threatening each day by the Zionists in command in Tel Aviv. Also, I have a hard time buying the “blunder” excuse, not when Israel has the most vigorous spy net over Israel and the occupied territories, with technology that Israel has been marketing to other countries, using demonstration videos of their effectiveness in the occupied territories. (https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/17/israel-is-shutting-down-its-human-laboratory-in-gaza/), and, Israel’s steadfast ally having two listening facilities nearby.
Whereas Israel kills them.
Xi came to town this week to let Joe know that these two separate sets of international law will not endure forever.
And they won’t.
Meanwhile though a genocide is occurring and We the People, in spite of our best intent, appear to be powerless to end it.
If not Joe, then someone else from the duopoly party will keep the ball rolling in Gaza and the West Bank, crank out more money for the MIC, stir more problems overseas.
We’ll see.
Because Sloppy Joe will not win the next election if he runs against Bozo the Clown.
And he will be running against Bozo the clown.
True enough! And he still won’t win!
They call it “rules-based international order”.
Like I said in my previous posts, U.N. is a worthless piece of paper.
Yes. It is.
It might not be so if it were located elsewhere, perhaps?
I was thinking of Switzerland, but they too have been compromised.
I suggest China.
No different than being in New York. How about in the cradle of democracy? Greece.
Cradle of democracy with slavery as its roots.
Adding nothing to this discussion as usual. Jake from State Farm.
Jake, Julio, Burns has spoken. Whichever moniker he/she takes, the person is the same. The trope vomited up is the same.
Says the one who repeatedly posts baseless claims here.
Are you still claiming Ukraine killed 14,000 Russians in 2014 or did you finally do some fcking research?
There are many people like me who hold similar views-its called democracy.
The United States?
I totally agree. Totally.
US/Israel
Fixed.
Thank you.
No charge, I assume? 🙂
(C) And none for Russia.
Jake, Julio, Burns has spoken.
That’s going to change.
Xi essentially told Biden this week that we can work together. Or we can work against each other. This doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game where the winner takes all. China is prepared for either choice.
Obama famously said, “never underestimate the ability of Joe to f*ck things up”. Joe has not failed us yet. The meeting between Xi and Joe was supposed to be a display of diplomacy. What does Joe do after the meeting, for all to hear and see, he calls Xi a dictator. Real smooth, Joe, real smooth. Your additional nickname, for me, is x-lax.
Israel is getting close to self destruction…!
Link to Boycott website – vote with your wallet
https://www.betterworld.info/conflict-regions/israel-palestine/boycott-divestment-sanctions-bds/boycott-israeli-goods
Because voting with your vote is mostly futile at this point. Best bet is to vote for the Republicans who deny election results and democrats who maintain US built on slavery; both of them are questioning the legitimacy of the federal government and that’s at least a small step in the right direction. It’s also the best we can hope for.
“…democrats who maintain US built on slavery…”
Sorry, can you clarify this statement ? As written I cannot tell what you mean by it.
Some in progressive circles (1619 project etc) maintain that the US was built on slavery. Others say that slavery was bad and was a part of the US circa 1776, but that the Nation formed in spite of slavery rather than because of it. I say that no matter what you believe on the subject, this sort of claim questions the legitimacy of the Federal government, and therefore you should vote for candidates who make such a claim because the Federal government is rotten to the core and anyone who questions it is moving things in the right direction.
Why not blame people in Germany who were not born in WW II for Hitler,why not blame African and Arab slave masters who sold Africans to Europeans and Americans,why not blame everyone in Europe for their pogroms, and the abuse of gypsies that is still going on? any organization,any government,is only as good as the people who man it today.
The point isn’t that progressives who hold this view are right. It’s that they are actively questioning the legitimacy of the federal government which is a step in the right direction as federal representatives no longer represent those who elect them but instead the monied interests who fund their campaigns. Which include foreign governments, including, but not limited to Israel.
The is all thanks to the widespread bribery which became more prevalent after citizens united.
The same goes for republicans who believe the 2020 election was stolen. Whether or not you believe it was stolen, they are also questioning the legitimacy of the federal government, and therefore moving the scales in the right direction.
You links are invaluable to the discussion as welll as the cause for justice.
Please do keep them coming!
In my mind, the important news here is that the US and the UK abstained. Israel has a long history of refusing to accept UN Resolutions…. which is remarkable because it was a UN Resolution that created Israel.
When did the UN have a resolution that was anti Arab terrorism?
You might start here.
https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/ctc/content/security-council-resolutions
or here
https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/ctc/content/reports-general-assembly-reports-and-resolutions
The censorship is working here as usual. Most of my comments are deleted. Probably, they were not pro-Zionist enough.
Unless you’re posting under another name as well as this one, the last time you had a comment deleted here was two weeks ago.
Comments aren’t posting on the site only in disqus. I see this is happening on other sites too.
Apparently this is across the board
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-discussdisqus/bug_reports_feedback_disqus_commenting_system_is_currently_experiencing_difficulties/
Thanks for doing the research!
They appeared now after some hours of absence.
As Existential Dread found out when he did some research (which I’m grateful to not have to have done myself), there’s some kind of Disqus-wide problem today (it’s happening on my personal site, etc. as well). Comments appear in the Disqus site, but not in embeds below articles on other sites.
The comments are withheld for potential censorship because their major funders who are currently supporting ethnic cleansing, mass murder, collective punishment and genocide demand it. And of course the censorship aligns with government policy and corporate greed. But not fascist at all.
Antiwar of course use human rights and antisemitism as a front for the censorship. Its money laundering and fraud. Antiwar should be registered as a foreign agent.
Last chance to stop lying about Antiwar.com. From our guidelines:
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Just telling it like it is….its called free speech. We ALL have an absolute right to call out fascism, ethnic cleansing and genocide, And have an absolute right to call out those profiting from it.
Fear and intimidation is the TOOL of the fascist and profit is the life blood of fascism. Hence your threats against my human rights.
I understand your need to silence free speech especially if it affects your bottom line (suicide pact as you put it), this is of course the fundamental flaw of fascism.
What is the point of being Antiwar (of being anything) if at the end of the day your profit objectives conflict with peace. This is existential to your publication, not of my making, i am just pointing out the contradictions.
This publication is anti-war. You’re pro-war. That’s fine. Being pro-war and saying so doesn’t violate our guidelines. Attacking us, including lying about our donors, does. So you’ll knock that off or you’ll leave. Your call.
I judge you and this publication by your actions, not your statements.
What is the point of being Antiwar (of being anything) if at the end of the day your profit objectives conflict with peace. This is existential to your publication, not of my making, i am just pointing out the contradictions.
You even pointed out the contradiction yourself……”Our willingness to host reader discussions is not a suicide pact.”
Why would my statements be a suicide pact? The answer is obvious.
In this statement you clearly understand your need to silence any negative feedback that will impact your revenue stream. But not fascist or a human rights violation at all, right.
Antiwar.com is a nonprofit.
And Antiwar.com doesn’t owe you a platform to lie about its donors, to its own detriment.
Thomas – extraordinary ICJ Advisory Opinion from 2004. Mentions Tel Aviv owes reparations among other items.
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-178825/
Interesting.
Shocking actually – thought you would be one of the few that would take the time to read this ICJ opinion.
“… disconnected from reality….” ?? Revealing formulation, … whereat his actions reveal a “reality” perfectly innocent of human empathy and capable of inflicting an enormity of cruelty without the least qualm. In a word we’re witnessing a monster on an epic scale and with limitless scope, … yes, even nukes. And we are allied to him!
Send Israeli government to Moon… They can grab lands as much as they want… Then, peace would come to planet Earth…!
There are many wars going on,which have nothing to do with Israel-there were thousands of years of human warfare.Lets send Hamas Hezbollah, and those who love them to the moon.
For decades,when Arabs committed terrorist acts against Israel,there was no UN response.
That’s because Israel breaks UN laws all the time. They occupy Palestine among other atrocities against the indigenous people.
In my mind, the important thing here is that the US and the UK didn’t block the resolution. There is nothing new about the government of Israel refusing to accept UN decisions…. something one would not expect from a country that was created by a UN resolution.
Tel Aviv needs to be treated like Gaza!
And who would do that?
Iran.
I’d be fine with treating Tel Aviv like Flint Michigan; utterly ignored and abandoned by the US Federal Government
go over there and try it.
Over five decades, the United States has blocked at least 53 United Nations Security Council resolutions critical of Israel.
The Israelis won’t do the right thing for anything less than the full throated demand of the US but the US won’t do the right thing and has lost it’s voice along with it’s moral compass.
AIPAC bribes have a tendency to do that. . .
Do you have proof of these so called “bribes”,or just assumptions?
To be fair, AIPAC does a brisk trade in blackmail as well… A currency that never loses it’s value.
Free Free Palestine 🇵🇸
!!!
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-israel-public-affairs-cmte/summary?id=D000046963
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/03/22/the-best-congress-aipac-can-buy/
https://www.aipacpac.org/
Last one says it best, $17 million to 365 Democrat and Republican candidates in 2022.
The euphemism for bribery in Wash. is called ‘lobbying’.
Tapped phone communication among Berkut officers during the Maidan shootouts made available to Monitor by a Ukrainian amateur radio expert, show that the Berkut were taken entirely by surprise by the snipers’ action. One Berkut officer is heard asking his colleagues “Who fired there? Our people do not fire on unarmed people. “Another says a bit later:” He was shot by someone, but not by us… are there more snipers? And who are they?”
Video recordings show that the shots were fired also from the Ukraina Hotel—as Monitor was told by an eyewitness of the events, the shots were fired from the eighth or ninth floor of the hotel, and that the snipers must have been professionals. But the hotel was firmly in the hands of the Maidan movement that day, which just in the morning of Feb. 20 had introduced ID card controls and only let in people who had a key to one of the hotel rooms.
The right sector, who were trained in Poland (NATO) shot and murdered civilians and police in the Maidan. The same false flag operation the US undertook in Venezuela.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2XNN0Yt6D8
Israel is a war criminal entity. Its leadership belongs in the Hague and the US should be hit with the reparations bill for underwriting this latest exercise in ethnic cleansing.
I am retired and in all my life never did a government have the audacity the Israelis and Americans show to deceive and lie so openly in the face of their constituents. They know the truth is available and in the open but they are confident their people will believe the lies no matter what. And they are right, the people are in denial, they will not accept the elected officials are that evil.
The trailer trash knows the people, they are much like them, MSM supports all the lies, that helps.
Please watch this video and the one below it. https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/17/dnc_headquarters_ceasefire_gaza_protest_ifnotnow
Thanks for the link, I watch democracy now too. I read that the demonstrations in support of Israel were organized and paid for by the pro Israeli lobby. That is not surprising, the Maidan in Ukraine was funded by the Americans too.
And what empowers one human being to refer to another as “trash”
Would human animals be better? Israeli Zionists empowered themselves to say so.
What empowers one human being to kill thousands of other unarmed human beings including new born babies and women and children, how about the bombing of hospitals, schools, and churches? They are War-Criminals, is anything wrong with that? The war criminals are human trash.
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO. It displays how the Zionists have turned against their own with totally insane rhetoric coming out of Wash. Anybody who doesn’t believe in a Zionist controlled government will believe it after watching those two videos. When you go to Democracy Now, it will take you to the YouTube video, and the one below it shows how the Capitol Police have gone full blown ‘Adolph Eichmann syndrome’ i.e. ‘I vas yest followink orders.’
NOTE: the video has been taken down on Dem. Now, but here’s another link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ9_3fOoSj4
Capitol Police Violently Break Up Jewish-Organized DNC Protest Calling for Gaza Ceasefire. https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/17/dnc_headquarters_ceasefire_gaza_protest_ifnotnow
Watching Jewish Americans courageously demanding a stop to mass murder in Gaza inspires me to take a stand myself.
Watching those same Jewish Americans lose their jobs for doing so inspires me to keep my head down and mouth shut. . .
In a civilized world, Israel under Netanyahu would be expelled from the United Nations for violating its signature of the UN Charter and for committing crimes against humanity.
It wil not be expelled, because the US veto has paralyzed the UN and made it ever more powerless than the ancient League of Nations.