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US vetoes UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire (www.semafor.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by tree to c/[email protected]

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The U.S. vetoed a UN Security Council resolution Friday calling for a ceasefire to the fighting in Gaza.

The U.S. and Israel have opposed calls for a ceasefire, saying it would strengthen Hamas.

The vote was delayed for several hours over worries the U.S. would veto it. Diplomats from several Arab nations met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to try to convince the U.S. to abstain from voting.

As a permanent member of the council, the U.S. has veto power, and had signaled it planned to block the resolution. The U.K. abstained from the vote, while the 13 other members of the council voted for it.

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[+] [email protected] -19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Ah yes, I am sure Trump wouldn’t do the same thing as well 🙄

The US will always back Israel because the US sees military strategic value against the Middle East with Israel, namely Iran. It also helps that Israel exports a lot of medical equipment to the US as well, so financially we have a good relationship with them there as well.

[–] xerazal 31 points 11 months ago

"trump worse" doesn't mean that this isn't bad. The bar is so fucking low at this point, and even then Dems can't clear it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The US will always support genocidal maniacs is not a valid argument, and neither is that Trump is as bad.

I genuinely can't understand why you are defending a genocide. This is bad for the US's international standing. It hurts the US-led coalition against Russia. Even if you don't care or humanize Palestinians, you should at least pretend to care about long term US interests at home and abroad.

"Rush by west to back Israel erodes developing countries’ support for Ukraine" https://archive.ph/ctAhD

“We have definitely lost the battle in the Global South,” said one senior G7 diplomat. “All the work we have done with the Global South . [over Ukraine] has been lost . . . Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.”

Many developing countries have traditionally supported the Palestinian cause, seeing it through the prism of self-determination and a push against the global dominance of the US, Israel’s most important backer.

“What we said about Ukraine has to apply to Gaza. Otherwise we lose all our credibility,” the senior G7 diplomat added. “The Brazilians, the South Africans, the Indonesians: why should they ever believe what we say about human rights?”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

He's defending genocide because he's grasping at straws trying to pin everything on native peoples for not wanting to have their land stolen

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I love how libs immediately bleat about Trump when presented with the fact that it's their chosen savior doing a genocide. These people have no actual morals.