The US on Tuesday vetoed a resolution at the UN Security Council that called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. It marked the third time the US used its veto power on the Council to block a call for an end to the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians.
The US was the only member to vote against the resolution, which was introduced by Algeria. The UK abstained, and all 13 other members voted in favor of the measure.
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield slammed the Algerian effort after the vote.
“Proceeding with a vote today was wishful and irresponsible, and so while we cannot support a resolution that would put sensitive negotiations in jeopardy, we look forward to engaging on a text that we believe will address so many of the concerns we all share,” Thomas-Greenfield said.
Thomas-Greenfield claims the resolution would disrupt US efforts to push for a hostage deal, but there’s no sign any progress is being made. Qatar’s prime minister, who is mediating, said over the weekend that the negotiations are “not very promising,” and Israel declined to attend the last round of in-person talks with US, Qatari, and Egyptian officials.
The US is drafting its own resolution that calls for a “temporary ceasefire” if Hamas releases the hostages, which is essentially Israel’s position. The US resolution leaves open the possibility of Israel restarting military operations after the truce.
So far, the Israeli slaughter has killed more than 29,000 Palestinians and wounded over 69,000. About two-thirds of the casualties are women and children. Despite the massive civilian casualty rate, the US continues to provide unconditional support and is preparing to send more bombs.
The US is now genocidesplaining its veto.
I’m stealing!
Lol it’s from Mouin Rabbani.
Brilliant.
Yup. I’m stealing too.
“Don’t Israel my juice” https://x.com/RaggedTP/status/1721124413125329337?s=20
“Don’t Gaza me!”
https://x.com/BlahBlahect/status/1726478356265443641?s=20
I’m waiting to see what alternative “ceasefire” resolution the U.S. government comes up with. I would not be surprised if Genocide Joe and posse end up vetoing their own resolution.
The US resolution asks the Security Council to “underscore its support for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza as soon as
practicable, based on the formula of all hostages being released, and
calls for lifting all barriers to the provision of humanitarian
assistance at scale.”
In other words, under the US “ceasefire” proposal Israel would remain free to continue the genocide until some vague time in the future when it might agree to a “temporary” ceasefire to get the October 7th prisoners released and then resume the genocide.
A temporary ceasefire untilHhamas can rearm and bring in foreign terrorists.
So no temporary ceasefire? You really do care about those kidnapped victims now don’t you.
Netanyahu has given Hamas until March 10, 2024, the day Ramadan begins, to release the rest of the hostages. If the Biden administration keeps up the providing of bombs to Israel to do it, and Israel attacks the tent city in Rafah, how will Mr. Biden spin it prior to the election? That Israel had the right to defend itself from starving humans in tents? From day one, Hamas has been the excuse, the vehicle, the justification for the Final Solution of the “Palestinian problem”. Polls in Israel indicate 60% of the population of Israel believe the IDF is not doing enough killing, starving of children. Can you believe that? The world will do nothing. The world did nothing after the previous “operations”, Protective Edge, Cast Lead. Both were forgotten. The world has had the Holocaust drummed into the heads of its citizens. Will the world remember this Israeli “operation”?
Zionists are like abused children who have grown up to become abusers themselves. Never again for anyone!
https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939
The Zionists are ready to cause trouble for Ramadan. They have no intention to act humane.
Is Hamas humane?HAHAHA!
Yes, Hamas is humane, they are fighting back at decades of brutal and humiliating illegal Israeli occupation, they had enough, and what they are doing is TRUE SELF-DEFENSE. They are resistance against brutal occupiers. YOU SAW VIDEOS OF THE TREATMENT IDF SOLDIERS USED TO ABUSE AND HUMILIATE YOUNG PALESTINIAN MEN. How would you feel if anyone did that to you or your son? You would kill whoever did that to you, or not?
Since when is mass rape and mutilation humane?
Look, where is the evidence?
“where is the evidence?”
good the q gets asked now and then.
short answer – trolls are hit and run – they don’t argue, they don’t ‘do’ evidence.
Israel admits that it has not proven even one case of sexual assault on 10-7.
Are you still pushing the beheaded babies propaganda, as well?
As compared to who? Isarael? Then yes. Israel no longer has any peers when it comes to being inhumane. They’ve taken terrorism to a new level. Kill everything that moves and claim you were aiming for a bad guy. Now when Israeli tactics are used against Israel, we’ll hear the screams of HOLOCAUST. And they’ll be coming from clowns like you.
“Is Hamas humane?H-”
there he goes again – ‘hamas is inhumane, so yippee for genocide’
literally cannot flap his yap w/o justifying israel’s intentional mass starvation & slaughter of women and child innocents.
note btw the same hatred and fear of US southern border refugees – talking hardcore trump toady
I believe it’s not 60%, but around 99%. Some of them are a bit shy. Poor things. They must feel bad, like they’re being persecuted. Call Steven Spielberg. This might be a great idea for one of his award winning movies.
“Despite the massive civilian casualty rate, the US continues to provide unconditional support” – after the failure in Ukraine, Biden’s team concentrated it’s efforts on Israel in hope to achieve some kind of victory at least over there. Failure of Netanyahu will make of Biden an ultimate loser.
Double failure in the same year is a good achievement for Genocide Joe dying resume….!
Temporary ceasefire, release the hostages and finish the genocide along with Israel… US is dreaming and embarrassing itself with this absurd resolution…!
We’re never embarrassed ever!
Being a hegemon means never having to say you’re sorry.
Anyone ask the execrable US ambassador why the hundred or so hostages are so special that thousands more must die and hundreds of thousands must starve because hostages have to come first?
Since the beginning of the Israel attack on Gaza, 200-300 people have died a day. Stop the genocide now.
Aaaand I simultaneously posted the same notion.
I know … pretty amazing!
“…we cannot support a resolution that would put sensitive negotiations in jeopardy…”
~100 Israeli hostages evidently of greater worth than 2+ million Palestinians. Hideous.
If those hostages were truly valued, there would have been a long-term ceasefire months ago.
But they are not valued. Israel and the US are using them for PR. They are also leaving them to suffer and die.
Agreeing to a short-term ceasefire is like agreeing to put off being killed a bit longer. Is that worth it? Apparently Hamas doesn’t think so. Who would?!
No-release all hostages forthwith, and then gain the image of being moral,or just sacrifice the lives of some Gazans. Hamas committed a well planned pogrom-and people ignore that fact.
Absolutely. Release all hostages forthwith. That would include the Israeli hostages held by Hamas, and the Palestinian hostages held by the Israeli regime.
Anyone in custody who does not have blood on their hands,should be released. An Israel Arab who killed his wife should stay in jail. A person who waved a flag or engaged in peaceful protest should be release.Perfectly fair.
The countries on the SC should put the item up for a vote every day or every week … force the US to keep vetoing and thus voting for massacre and genocide. Clarify the depth of our depravity for all to see.
Great Idea.
“countries on the SC should put the item up for…vote” daily?
would think it would go to the general assembly, as before…perhaps after icj’s friday deadline fr israel to report on how it’s halting its war criminal acts…vs increasing them:
‘Israel Further Limits Aid Into Gaza, Leading to More Starving Children’ (antiwar)
This “America Last” crowd are absolutely determined to destroy what’s left of America’s reputation with the rest of the world. How many more babies and children have to be blown to smithereens before their terroristic blood lust is satiated? 20,000? 30,000? 50,000?
How can a CHRISTIAN nation be so uncivilized? What for, other than replacing Putin with Navalny and weakening Russia? Well, Navalny went to hell and maybe Biden follows soon on his heal, Biden or his successor needs to find a replacement for him.
Oct 7 was a very good example of “terroristic blood lust”-reap what you sow.
And what Israel has done since Oct 7th, Oct 7th now looks like a picnic in comparison. So as usual, you are full of pig shit.
“reap what you sow“?
ewwww – trite moralizing to approve of shocking war criminal acts – that was a gross one
War is hell-don’t start a war,don’t massacre-or as Gazans are finding out, there will be a severe price to be paid?Did you condemn the Oct 7 atrocities?
“War is hell-don’t start a wa-
terrorist child leg comin’ at ya’! return fire, patriot he-guy! kill, genocide jake, kill!!!
Oh,the sense of outrage.
You mean like ‘shit for brains’.
Hamas murdered 37 Israeli children on October 7 which the world condemned.
The IDF has murdered over 15,000 Palestinian children in response.
Which is the worst terrorist group?
Where you there to count dead children? Have you performed forensics?When one hears reports of women being stabbed as they are raped,of families being bound together and burned alive-a harsh response is indicated.
“hears reports”
Yes, all you need to justify genocide is hearing reports of atrocities.
A harsh lesson about the price of the OCT 7 massacre is being taught.
You’re thinking too small. You need to think like U.S. politicians and start thinking hundreds of thousands or more.
We have a totally dehumanized government. There is not one official with character and decency. Nothing but trash. What a shame.
Hamas, they are Palestinians, humans, they should always give to the dehumanized Israeli animals for nothing in return. Even children know better.
From a period of quiet,Hamas struck out at peaceful villages, raping.mutilating,murdering-who is dehumanized,and who is responding to the bestiality?
“From a period of quiet”
What, do IDF snipers use silencers when murdering protesters and journalists?
Yes from a period of relative quiet. Peaceful protesters should not be shot-those throwing firebombs….
Peaceful protesters WERE shot. An American Journalist WAS shot. A Paraplegic WAS shot. First responders WERE shot. Its been no different than it is now. Shoot anything that moves and claim there was a bad guy in the vicinity.
And Hamas was firing missiles daily before Oct 7.
I see. No answer to my comment so right back to your bag of bullshit.
What action should the Palestinians take against the settlers in the WB? Just keep protesting peacefully as more and more settlers create facts on the ground?
Ghandi would have.
Stop your evil propaganda. The Zionists are evil, no animal would do what they do. The nations political elite is on their level, they are slimy scumbags, shame on all of them. Not one of them stood up and spoke for simple human decency, not a single one. Lame Bernie came out and did not have a the courage to use the word genocide in interview.
Hamas is retaliating for decades of brutal, humiliating occupation, the most brutal occupation in history. The Zionists are not the victims, they beat the Palestinians and claim the Zionists are got hurt and are bleeding. What kind of people are you supporting, have you no decency, no sense of empathy for all the brutally killed children? You support the war of of a nuclear superpower against women and children, you justify to starve pregnant women and infants and babies and children? That is despicable one sided massacre, genocide, not a war between two armed military opponents, what a shame on all of us as a nation. What low life creatures, sh*theads our political and money elites really are.
Responding to the bestiality with bestiality that pales the bestiality they are responding to.
Israel doesn’t want to kill Palestinians. It just wants them to die. Taking over Palestinian land “quietly” without any push-back is of course preferred.
Gaza was compressed until it exploded.
The same will happen in the West Bank in a short period of time as settler numbers increase.
The U.S. bloodlust is ramping up….. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-admin-leans-toward-providing-long-range-missiles-to-ukraine-amid-tensions-with-russia/ss-BB1iAPFz?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=96b4d509b62841eeb353662dc0182d77&ei=12
Waste of time. No UNSC Resolution will pass US veto. UNSC will not be reformed to enable it to function. So the General Assembly will have to form a “United For Peace” initiative to collect a group of countries to enforce economic sanctions on Israel, if not military action.
That, of course, will not stop the crazies in the Israeli government. Only military force will. And that is coming from the Axis of Resistance. Hezbollah alone can fight Israel to a defeat and destroy much of Israel’s economic infrastructure. The other regional militias will take the fight to the US military assets in the region and drive the US out of the Middle East. If the US attacks Iran as a result – which is virtually guaranteed, Iran will probably add to Israel’s destruction with the 500-750 precision missiles it has which can reach Israel.
I don’t think Iran is stupid enough to build 500-750 precision missiles. They probably built thousands.
I’m talking about the ones with the range to reach Israel. The rest are shorter-range.
I guess we’ll find out how many soon enough.
An EMP nuke detonated at high altitudes will neuter them.
US does not have the capacity and sustainability to attack Iran…!
Why does everyone say things like that? Of course, it’s true! When has that ever stopped the US from doing something stupid? That’s the point.
The US will attack Iran at some point. Then the US will bomb Iran by air for the next X years. Then the US will quit because nothing has been achieved and it has lost all its assets in the Middle East, both because of Iran missile strikes and the actions of militias in every country the US has assets in.
Then the US will leave the Middle East – and immediately turn around and attack China.
And lose that war, too. This is what the US does now – it loses wars it starts. Since Korea this has been the case – even stunts like Grenada were a joke.
FJB or as he is now known Genocide Joey Biden so FGJB
“now known [as] Genocide Joey Biden”
now and forever, cause that’s all there is – that’s his singular claim to lasting ‘fame’
genocide joe. that moniker will hang around biden’s neck for the remainder of his life, and for a long time in death – the antiwar movement slapped it on him prophetically early, and it’s only become more obviously fitting since the start of israel’s US-enabled high crimes against humanity
a prophecy – the day biden dies, cartoons of him w/a genocide joe card pinned to his open-coffin chest, or tatooed to his mummified forehead, will crash the internet…
…except over at the new york times, whose obit comment column will block the ‘disrespectful’ label for the atrocity-enabling ‘US leader’
Abandon Biden, Trump, Haley and any candidate who opposes a permanent ceasefire and a cut off of military aid to Israel. No genocide in our time! No genocide on our dime!
Gaza is an American genocide. Paid for with American taxpayer dollars. Against the will of the American people who want a ceasefire. Biden could stop Israel’s mass murders in a day with an executive order freezing deliveries of artillery shells, gravity bombs and fighter jet spare parts until Israel withdraws from Gaza. The Zionist lobby and the Evangelical movement have a stranglehold on executive and legislative branches of the US government. We need BDS now. We need to abandon Biden, Trump, Haley and all politicians who support genocide. Unplug Israel! BDS now!
“The Zionist lobby and the Evangelical movement have a stranglehold on executive and legislative branches of the US government.”
That is true. But I’d argue their power is also due to a right liberal Democratic Party that antidemocratically suppresses the progressive will of half its electors and left liberal politicians – in part by allying itelf with the right wing AIPAC, an action that, at the same time as it stifles progressives, weakens the Democratic Party’s electoral power to enact progressive – and even right lib – legislation.
Yesterday the ICJ began an unprecedented hearing on Israeli’s illegal occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Over 6 days 52 countries and 3 independent organizations will present arguments on the broad-base of Israel’s controversial polices from settlement, annexation and discriminatory legislation to it’s associated practices and measures.
A US veto commands the SC not the GA where the cratering of our international influence is repeatedly demonstrated. Mark Twain wrote “it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog” and from our methods fighting communism then terror to the impunity and support we’ve provided Israel’s build into an apartheid, now genocidial, state we’ve created a lot of fight in a majority world of little dogs. A pattern our decision-makers manage to repeat with almost daily regularity in a transforming world that long resented our methods and is no longer stacked our favor.
Nations would lap US foreign aide as they condemned the US.The genocide was on th part of Hamas.
The genocide is ongoing and it’s being conducted by Israel.
30,000 is 30 times greater than 1000.
The numbers don’t lie.
Israel is the greater terrorist, a war criminal nation.
Not to mention the 400,000 in famine in Gaza as compared to NONE in Israel. Not only that, but the “none” are trying to stop any aid from getting into Gaza. I guess 400,000 isn’t enough for those sick bastards.
Uncle Sammy loves killing Muslims.
This is just the latest act in a very bloody US/NATOil/Isreal imperialist assault on the middle east that has consistently backed the most extreme reactionary forces throughout the Muslim world, going as far back as Indonesia and Suharto’s bloodbath.
“. . . while we cannot support a resolution that would put sensitive negotiations in jeopardy . . .”
New levels of disgusting and despicable bullshit every week. Your American tax dollars at work.
This is the wisdom of God to show the world how empty everyone except himself is.
“‘Proceeding with a vote today was wishful and irresponsible’… Thomas-Greenfield said.”
Make me puke moment for the ages – the US ambassador, knee-deep in the gore of her Palestinian victims, reproaching the nations of the world like a smug schoolmarm scolding childish students.
“The US is drafting its own resolution that calls for a “temporary ceasefire” if Hamas releases the hostages, which is essentially Israel’s position.” LOLOL. I’m sure Hamas would jump right on it. Here is the summary: “We will temporarily ceasefire until you surrender yourselves and the hostages, then we will kill you both when we end the so-called temporary ceasefire!” Capiche?
After I saw who delivered the US Veto, I got two calls last night in the middle of the night. One from Malcolm X and one from MLK. They both couldn’t sleep.
Well, Biden had a LA fundraiser to go to that night with many prominent Israel supporters. It would have been inconvenient and awkward for him.
AIPAC is taking notes.
Jimmy Carter: “It’s almost politically suicidal . . . For a member of the Congress who wants to seek reelection to take any stand that might be interpreted as anti-policy of the conservative Israeli government. (The Israel Lobby, P-160, #43)