The UN Security Council again pushed back a vote on a Gaza resolution that was initially scheduled to be brought forward for a vote on Monday.
The vote is now scheduled for Friday and was delayed throughout the week due to the threat of a US veto. The US worked to water down the resolution and remove a call for a cessation of hostilities.
According to AFP, after negotiators worked on Thursday, the latest draft version of the resolution calls for “creating the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities” but doesn’t call for a ceasefire.
Another major sticking point about the resolution, which was put forward by the UAE, was a call to give the UN “exclusive” control of inspections of humanitarian aid before it enters Gaza, something the US and Israel rejected. According to The Washington Post, the UN also wanted more flexible language on this issue.
The Post report said the new draft circulated on Thursday satisfied at least some US concerns, enough that the US would abstain from voting and not veto the resolution. US officials have said they also wanted to include language condemning Hamas and supporting Israel’s right to “defend itself,” but it’s unclear if such wording was included.
The US has vetoed several resolutions calling for ceasefires at the Security Council to give political cover to the Israeli massacre of Palestinians. The US also voted against a ceasefire resolution at the UN General Assembly, which received support from 153 countries.
Many, many millions around the world will never forgive the US for enabling and supporting this genocide. You can be certain that countless plans for the “next 9-11” are already being hatched. It would be foolish to think none of them will come to fruition.
The plans for the next 9-11 are always in the making. What is new about that?
It’s a pretty good bet that “what’s new” is the number of new plans, by new planners, and the renewed commitment of people around the world to seek revenge. You aren’t so stupid that you don’t know this. You are, however, dumb enough to ask the question as if it were a serious one.
yes…as branko marcetic argued in detail on these pages yesterday…
Yes. Socialist Marcetic in right-libertarian Responsible Statecraft. Great minds can think alike across ideological separators.
I wouldn’t classify Responsible Statecraft as “right-libertarian.” Its board includes a former CENTCOM office head and advisor to Trump nemesis Jim Mattis, the publisher of The Nation, the president of the Rockefeller Brothers fund, and the co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign. Apart from non-interventionism, its ideological makeup is all over the place.
OK. I was thinking of it in comparison with Jacobin, where Marcetic usually writes.
Our so-called elite has not a shred of common human decency, they are moral scumbags.
Agreed. But I’m pretty sure those same “moral scumbags” who are devoid of “a shred of common human decency” are still $hitting “moral superiority” on our faces.
$$$$
what
Maybe if USA “leaders” could pull their lips away from Israel’s hind end long enough, they could see what they’re supporting- a monster! The damage inherent in Israel’s blackmailing of world leaders is on full display in Gaza!
If it weren’t a cataclysm and Palestinian genocide, it would be a fantastic comedy. While negotiating a ceasefire resolution, “The US watered down the resolution so it doesn’t call for a ceasefire.”
Right, from being an institution to resolve conflicts short of war, it’s become a flat out obstruction. I were better the affected nations caucus separately.
And the malleable morons sitting across the table let them …
As if the resolution passes, Israel abide by it…!
following up earlier post…
“‘Not Worth…Paper It Is Written On’: US Guts Gaza Resolution
By striking the call for suspension of hostilities, the resolution will now ensure that Israel’s slaughter in Gaza continues,” said one analyst.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-gaza-security-council
“the initial draft…demanded an ‘urgent and sustainable cessation of hostilities.’ After U.S. objections…the text was amended to call for a ‘suspension” of hostilities’….The latest draft merely backs ‘urgent steps’ to ‘create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.'”
“The vote is now scheduled for Friday and was delayed throughout the week due to the threat of a US veto. The US worked to water down the resolution and remove a call for a cessation of hostilities.”
WTF uncle sam WTF
Total repugnant and cowardice behavior by the US establishment,
The cowards and $$$ obsessed cretins from the other countries that allowed this nonsense to continue for a whole week … that’s what gets me.
Put a clear ceasefire and massive assistance under UN control item up for a vote every damn day and force the US to veto it every day in the shadow of people starving in Gaza. See how long that will last. Even the evil bastards in DC will eventually be forced to capitulate. But no, the UN prefers to demonstrate its irrelevance again.
Genocide unfolding
https://youtu.be/b1BDd1JWtGc?si=vUoRoLlDqfJ3wHNj
Genocide unfolding
https://youtu.be/b1BDd1JWtGc?si=vUoRoLlDqfJ3wHNj
“creating the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities”
That’s an insult to people’s intelligence.
The US is totally detached from reality :
“ US ambassador to UN: ‘No disconnect’ between Security Council and rest of UN
Al Jazeera’s correspondent had the following exchange with Linda Thomas-Greenfield during her press conference at UN headquarters in New York:
Al Jazeera: What do you say to critics who think that the resolution just passed by the Security Council is still disconnected from what the UN body is calling for? Almost 15 minutes after the council passed their resolution the Secretary General once again called for an immediate ceasefire, but the resolution did not. What do you make of this disconnect?
Thomas-Greenfield: There’s no disconnect here. We are all working to address the humanitarian needs on the ground, and we’re working to address those needs immediately. That’s what this resolution is about, and it is about working with the UN and helping the UN to do the critical work that they are doing on the ground.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/12/22/israel-hamas-war-live-un-security-council-to-vote-on-gaza-resolution
from first link:
“latest draft version…calls for ‘urgent steps to immediately allow safe and unhindered humanitarian access, and also for creating the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.'”
1/ So, obviously, the UN completely capitulated on “ceasefire” – since this language allows:
a/ Israel to say “creating…conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities” is what it’s been doing by its siege of Gaza, and
b/the US to hypocritically claim it’s ‘cooperating’ w/the UN.
2/ “Humanitarian access” – with Gazans facing “catastrophic” (WP) hunger – seems central to the resolution – both in terms of getting more aid in faster, now, and because it challenges the ‘blockade’ part of Israel’s military/blockade siege.
3/ Given above, I don’t get why the ‘cessation of hostilities’ language wasn’t entirely dropped, and separate ‘cessation’ resolutions submitted with – the hope would be – more countries shifting to support, and the US’s obstruction and isolation underscored.
In this last connection – Krystal Ball (Breaking Points) just noted the US doesn’t like to use its veto power because an originally US-inspired rule requires a UN meeting to discuss such acts in 10 (?) days)…putting an additional spotlight on such obstructionism.
https://youtu.be/cB2_wgUd8Os?si=aKp83UKQGI3umekC
The UN has long since lost its dignity and effectiveness.