UN Security Council resolution calls for Gaza ceasefire
UN Security Council resolution calls for Gaza ceasefire
The measure passes after the US refrains from using its veto, in a shift from its previous position.
The US shifted from a veto to abstaining, which is as close as the US is likely going to get to voting against Israel. That’s actually a huge shift, as soft as it might seem.
Tough for Biden to balance between:
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Leaning too heavily into Israel and siding with genocide.
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Leaning too heavily against, and being accused of being pro-Hamas.
Worse, if Biden withdraws all aid to Israel and then Israel is hit with another terrorist attack, manufactured or not, that's the end of Biden.
Within the electorate resides Jewish Americans who still largely support Israel by the polling, and the progressives and Palestinian Americans (a fat smaller voting bloc).
Best Biden is going to manage in toeing the line is singling out Netanyahu (who himself is unpopular in Israel) instead of Israel itself and actions like this.
The risk obviously being that if Biden loses this election, the guy who wouldn't just indirectly but likely directly commit genocide against Palestinians would come in and you certainly wouldn't hear the words, "indiscriminate bombing" from Trump's facial sphincter..
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Everyone forgot about Ukraine already
Is this a rerun of the vote where Russia and China vetoed last week?
No. That vote was on the US’ draft of a ceasefire resolution. China and Russia blocked it.
Now the US is getting out of the way for a different, non US drafted, version of a ceasefire resolution to pass.
We'd need the texts of all the different resolutions the SC has attempted on this issue to say what changed where at whose request, but the article makes it look this is closer to a rerun of resolutions the US vetoed weeks ago
The UN Security Council has called for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza, after the US did not veto the measure in a shift from its previous position
Wording related to the release of all the hostages was added, hence why the US didn't veto:
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147931
The UN Security Council on Monday passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and "the urgent need to expand the flow" of aid into Gaza.
Emphasis mine.
Useless and boring. If Hamas wants to they could end it at any time, but they don't care about the people who voted them into power so they won't.
This isn’t about those stupid fucking terrorists, it’s about stopping the other bunch of fucking terrorists who killed 20,000+ innocents from massacring more people, or destroying their homes and infrastructure leading to a slow lingering death from starvation and exposure just so that they can kill people and pretend it isn’t their fault.
Fuck hummus and fuck Israel!
May every baby killer burn alive and conscious
what is your plan for hamas ending it at any time?
How many of the thousands of children Israel has killed in Palestine were members of Hamas? How is it Hamas' fault that those children were killed by Israel?