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Arabs put to vote a UN resolution demanding an immediate Gaza cease-fire, knowing US will veto it

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Arabs put to vote a UN resolution demanding an immediate Gaza cease-fire, knowing US will veto it
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  • lol .... why keep calling it the UN ... it's obviously just the US

    • It can't last. Either the US is knocked off it's pedestal or the UN will go the way of the League of Nations.

      • I think there's a hell of a lot of bread-and-butter stuff that UN agencies do that people are just not thinking about.

        Sure the Security Council is just annoying theatre but there's a lot of good being done by other agencies.

      • How do you knock the biggest military power of the world of its pedestal?

  • This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says the Biden administration will veto the Arab-backed resolution because it may interfere with ongoing U.S. efforts to arrange a deal between the warring parties that would bring at least a six-week halt to hostilities and release all hostages taken during Hamas’ surprise Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel.

    In a surprise move ahead of the vote, the United States circulated a rival U.N. Security Council resolution that would support a temporary cease-fire in Gaza linked to the release of all hostages, and call for the lifting of all restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian aid.

    U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood told several reporters Monday that the Arab-backed resolution is not “an effective mechanism for trying to do the three things that we want to see happen — which is get hostages out, more aid in, and a lengthy pause to this conflict.”

    Arab nations, supported by many of the 193 U.N. member countries, have been demanding a cease-fire for months as Israel’s military offensive has intensified in response to the Hamas attack that killed 1,200 people and saw some 250 others taken hostage.

    The number of Palestinians killed has surpassed 29,000, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority are women and children.

    Algeria, the Arab representative on the council, delayed a vote at U.S. request while U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was recently in the region, hoping to get a hostage deal.

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