US fully onboard with mass murder and genocide as usual.
France a bit surprising
The current shitshow is not allowing France to maintain its delusion of ‘first among equals’ consensual imperialism.
I think we’ll be seeing more Western countries break from the usual map as the blood one has to wade through to ‘stand with Israel’ increases to such an extent that they can’t ignore it even from atop their high horses. And also because the US is eating their high horses.
I also thought that.
Worth noting that this is hidden towards the end (emphasis mine):
Reaffirms that a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be achieved by peaceful means, based on the relevant United Nations resolutions and in accordance with international law, and on the basis of the two -State solution
Pretty fucked up that the UN’s response to genocide and colonialism is to call for a timeout
It will take Palestinian resistance violence to make Israel view “peaceful means” as something they’d wish to pursue. Pretty sure that is what happened with the Oslo accords, which conceded and somewhat “legitimised” Israeli claim to stolen Palestinian land in the eyes of the world. Israel then took a massive shit on that “peaceful means”, and that is the only reason why the UN can only keep harping on about a two state solution fucking several decades after it was supposed to be implemented.
Hey guys, do you think it’s a good idea if we stop or even pause a massacre?
Countries in red: nah
Fucking Paraguay what are you doing
I don’t get papua new guinea
This might be relevant, I just read a paper which talks about the US manipulating votes at the UNGA. Organisations like the World Bank, the IMF and USAID provide aid and loans on a preferential basis, “we know that the distribution of aid differs from need-based allocations, and is strongly related to the geopolitical interests and foreign policy preferences of the donors.”
Countries which are poorer (lower GDP per capita) and “more democratic” are more likely to be punished if they vote against the USA. Countries which are “more democratic” are more likely to be influenced by financial rewards for voting alongside the USA.
My guess was that these forces were at play for countries like the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, and Tonga.
Iraq has changed its vote and approved a UN resolution calling for a “sustained humanitarian truce” and the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Gaza.
Al-Sahhaf said in a press release that Iraq, however, does not endorse the “two-state solution” and depicting the victims and their oppressors as equals, which was implied in the resolution.
Iraq later complained about technical issues and changed its vote to approval.
Tunisia was the only Arab state to abstain. Tunisia’s UN representative, Tarek al-Adab, told the national radio that the resolution did not go far enough in condemning “the war crimes and genocide carried out by the [Israeli] occupation”.
Israel’s UN ambassador Gilad Erdan rejected the UN resolution, calling it an “infamy” and affirmed Israel’s commitment to self-defence.
“Today is a day that will go down as infamy. We have all witnessed that the UN no longer holds even one ounce of legitimacy or relevance,” he said.
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