On Thursday, the US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have granted Palestine status as a full UN member state, a move that goes against President Biden’s claim that he favors a two-state solution.
The US was the only member of the 15-member council to vote against the resolution, while the UK and Switzerland abstained. There were 12 votes in favor from Russia, China, France, Japan, South Korea, Ecuador, Algeria, Malta, Slovenia, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, and Guyana.
A resolution needs nine votes to pass, but the US and the other four permanent members of the council — China, Russia, France, and the UK — have veto power. Before the vote, The Intercept reported that the US was lobbying other countries to vote against the resolution so the US wouldn’t have to veto it.
The Biden administration has come under criticism for claiming to favor a peace deal that involves a two-state solution while continuing to provide unconditional military aid and diplomatic support to Israel, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly stated his opposition to a Palestinian state.
Netanyahu has explicitly stated that he will not allow the creation of a Palestinian state in any future scenario. “In any future arrangement … Israel needs security control all territory west of the Jordan,” he said in January. “This collides with the idea of sovereignty. What can you do?“
The Israeli leader has also credited himself for why there is no Palestinian state. “Everyone knows that I am the one who for decades blocked the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger our existence,” he said in February.
The opposition to a Palestinian state is not unique to Netanyahu or his coalition government. Ninety-nine out of the 120 members of the Knesset recently voted against a resolution rejecting the “unilateral” creation of a Palestinian state.
Good move. Now is not the time to reward Palestinians for the bad behavior on Oct 7 and thier continuing to hold kidnapped victims from that attack.
“ Now is not the time to reward Palestinians for the bad behavior on oct 7” ?
Now it is the time time to punish all Israelis for the bad actions of their government through the years.
Hung,drawn and quartered,burned at the stake,which do you prefer?
“time to punish all Israelis for the bad actions of their government” . Nice. You are OK with hurting all citizens of Israel. But you and many of people who agreed with you are always complaining about Israel’s counter attack in Gaza. It is called being hypocritical.
On 2Oct, the Zionists invaded the al-acwasa mosque. Prior to that, oh well, I will let you read the story from ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations
Too fucking stupid to realize you’re too fucking stupid.
Once again demonstrating your lack of education. When one can not refute a person’s argument they revert to attacking them. And when one lacks socials skills they use the f word. It is little wonder why you were so easily recruited to be a terrorists supporter.
Once again you’re not realizing that I don’t give a flying fuck what you think of me. You’re a genocide cheerleader and a walking talking example of what a brainwashed MSM devotee sounds like. And you proved it once more with your typical brilliance of calling me a terrorist supporter. That is what the definition of not being able to refute what someone has to say. Moron.
So now the Biden team is exposed as liars. And no pier to save the starving now because one of three ships had an engine fire. Given the timeline, the ship was halfway across the Med on an emergency mission to provide food. Had a fire, could still steam, but didn’t complete the trip with key items, it steamed further to go back home. Hmm.
Hmm, indeed. And, the source of the mysterious fire??? The pier is to ship remaining Palestinians OUT.
Putin is isolated at the UN.
WYF?! Is the US sucking Israel’s dick again?!
Lol
Hey Dread, Did you see Wars’ comments lately? I hope he’s okay?
He said he had a family crisis.
Okay, thanks. I will send him a reply.
Gaza isn’t the only territory occupied by the Zionists.
Our congress (save a few) is occupied by the Zionists in Israel. There is no solution. They don’t want to be called “anti-semitic” for doing the right thing. The scary thing is the Zionists have the bomb. Lots of them. Kennedy tried to stop it. There were terse letters back and forth between Kennedy and Ben-Gurion. There was no way Kennedy was going to stop it.
We getting AIPAC money!
We getting AIPAC money!
Now, they busy killing kids in Gaza dead.
Abusing Palestinian women and blocking the bread
Getting tax payer dollars in the desert playing Soldier
Building settlements all along the west bank border
Paying off Congress to look the other way
Embracing DEI but only for their favored minority
Tearing up the first amendment to get those donor funds
Embracing safe spaces that they used to shun.
Everything we don’t like is antisemitic. It’s not genocide when our donors do it.
We getting AIPAC money!
We getting AIPAC money!
Especially since, like a lot of people Israel doesn’t like, he soon after wound up dead. . .
Gross but true.
Everyday. Poor Netanyahu must be getting sore down there. Another great movie idea for Steven Spielberg.
Good one Donna.
The duplicity is glaring. But msm will avoid it.
They will blame Russia.
Obama…………
The US claim of a policy is a cynical lie.
They give Israel an absolute veto over Palestinian state, while claiming that such a state is US policy. It can never happen in this way, Netanyahu has expressly said so with huge electoral support. The US knows that, even as it says the opposite.
Such lies undermine all other US policy positions. Nobody today can listen to anything the US says, and believe a word of it. Disbelief is automatic.
This especially applies if you ignore the Mainstream Media which is paid very well to lie as to the facts and help keep their captive population ignorant.
Neither Israel nor the US has a veto over a Palestinian state. That state has existed for more than 30 years, is recognized by most other states, is a UN observer state, and is a member state of other multi-state organizations such as Interpol and the International Criminal Court.
The US and Israel don’t have to LIKE the fact that the state of Palestine exists. The state of Palestine exists whether the US and Israel like it or not.
It would be interesting if the UN General Assembly just went ahead and voted on the state of Palestine’s membership application whether it’s endorsed by the Security Council or not.
It would also be interesting if the state of Palestine applied for, and received, BRICS membership and so forth.
Just a dream. It will become Eretz Israel, with any Palestinians remaining doing labor, not attending schools. Prisoners in their “state”. Everything will be forgotten. Blown into the winds of history, just like two previous “operations”, Cast Lead, Protective Edge. Israeli children will be taught about the glorious victory over an insurmountable enemy, one with great numbers, weapons, outnumbering the brave IDF soldiers and the settlers, who courageously defeated the mortal enemy. “Battle tested” weapons sales will continue unabated, to great profit. So very glorious.
I think 130 countries already recognize the Palestinian State.
Wikipedia says that the State of Palestine, as defined by the 1967 borders, has been recognized by 139 of the 193 UN members of the General Assembly since 2012.
Israel defies that decision. So, what makes anybody think that a Security Council decision would make any difference?
It seems to me that the UN ought to be focused on ways to compel Israel, and its sponsors, to comply with the resolutions already approved.
That’s the only thing we mean by saying, “Freedom!” We are free to lie and we even lie about “Freedom.” It’s actually the only “US policy position.”
Mark, have you seen Wars’ comments lately? I hope he is okay?
He is. Wow, I did a third person thingy.
Israel needs to be declared a Terrorist State and be removed from the UN. They do not get to block FREEDOM for Palestinians, they do not have the authority to block anything, or anyone, to live FREE. The ICC needs to do it’s work and arrest the War Criminals in Israel, USA, UK, EU. The UN can not allow this Genocide to continue and needs to bring the US before the ICJ Court for it’s War Crimes against the Palestinian People. Two State solution is the path for Peace and anyone refusing to make that happen, is an enemy of Humanity.
They and the other members of the donor class currently own DC, so don’t count on it. . .
Well said.
Except for the obscene utterings of 3 or regular commenters most of the people who read and write this site have their heads screwed on correctly.The others need mental health care.
You must be referring to jake, Don Julio, Tim Burns. They are the same dude.
I’m thinking some kind of outdated A.i. They pop to insult people just for a reaction.
The US is just as much a terrorist state as Israel, if not more, and should also be removed from the UN.
To dream the impossible dream,to fight the unbeatable foe,that is our task.
We have terrorized many countries, and, we have terrorized peoples right here in what is the United States of Atrocities.
Sounds like a dream in a nonexistant Utopia that never has and never will be. We humans as a species have many flaws We kill more then we need. Animals do not.Some are innocent and some are not.But none of them sit in judgement of other species.That is one of our fatal flaws. Until greed,racism and corruption are gone we will not survive or prosper as a species. This has not reached a tipping point.
This topic is so deep. A cynic would agree with the late Muammar Gaddafi – (Libya) on his UN speech against the Security Council.
HAMAs & Netanyahu win.
Al Jazeera was against Gadaffi in 2011. Now, they are proPalestinian. How did that work out for you?
His fatal mistake was to opine for business settlements be done in the Dinar, which was backed by gold, and not the worthless dollar.
And here I thought Ukraine would drag us into major war…but no, our “iron clad” ally Israel beat them to it.
Sick. Heartbreaking.
Predictable.
Palestine has been occupied since 1948. A brutal blockade that limits travel receipt of medicines, food, potable water, fuel has been in place for 17 years. So it goes.
Slaves to Israel to the end.
I watched the security council meeting. Israel once again was like a lying petulant child describing an alternate reality.
The US position is no better than Israel. It is embarrassing to know the world sees America resort to contorted lying speech to support a genocidal Jewish religious state,
I have read many of Hannah Arrendt’s very dense books and clearly remember her pointing out that Jews copying colonial arrogance two hundred years late was a mistake. Today’s Jewish state idea appears to be a similarly behind-the-times repeat. Genocide and torture in the Gaza concentration camp in the name of a Jewish religious state is in daily news. Israel has made a major mistake.
The US and Israel are pariah states, with the UK cowering mongrels hiding in the shadows. This just emphasises the hatred of the Palestinian people. How in a modern World, is this system not declared – unfit for purpose?