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UN Security Council, with US backing, calls for “unconditional” ceasefire

Jul 28, 2014 9:40 pm By Robert Spencer

The UN Security Council in sessionThis is the first time that the United States has not supported Israel at the United Nations. It is surprising that in the Obama presidency, with all of Obama’s obvious hostility toward Israel, that it has taken this long. It is unlikely to be the last time that this happens.

“The United States Lowers Israel’s Diplomatic Shield at the United Nations,” by Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy, July 28, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

Despite a history of rocky relations between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Obama administration could largely be counted on to watch Israel’s back in the U.N. Security Council, where it succeeded for more than five years in blocking successive efforts by the Palestinians to gain more of the trappings of an independent state and to get the world body to formally censure Israeli settlement policies.

That changed after the stroke of midnight Sunday when, in the early minutes of Monday, July 28, the U.N. Security Council, with the backing of the United States, issued a formal “presidential statement” demanding that Israel and Hamas implement an “immediate and unconditional” cease-fire to end fighting that has left more than 1,000 Palestinians and 43 Israelis dead. The Palestinians say they will continue to seek Security Council support for a legally enforceable resolution demanding that Israel halt its military offensive in Gaza.

The latest U.N. diplomacy comes during a period of deepening tensions between the United States and Israel over the course of Israel’s military operation in Gaza, which Obama maintains needs to stop now, but which Netanyahu insists must be allowed to continue in order to destroy Hamas’s network of subterranean tunnels used for raids on Israel. “I understand that Israel can’t have a cease-fire in which they are not able to — that somehow the tunnels are never going to be dealt with. The tunnels have to be dealt with. We understand that; we’re working at that,” Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters in Paris on Saturday in a press conference with the foreign ministers of Turkey and Qatar. “By the same token, the Palestinians can’t have a cease-fire in which they think the status quo is going to stay and they’re not going to have the ability to be able to begin to live and breathe more freely and move within the crossings and begin to have goods and services that come in from outside.”…

This moral equivalence is despicable.

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  1. Richie says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 9:56 pm

    What a disgrace. I hope by now Israel realizes as long as Obama is in the White House, the US is not an ally. I would not be surprised if Obama is funding the Jihadists who are trying to wipe out Christians and Jews.

    Obama deserves not only impeachment, but should be prosecuted for his MANY crimes. That man belongs in prison, and certainly not in the White House.

    God bless Israel, may god be with you and protect you from the demonic Muslims hell bent on murder.

    • Edward Klein says

      Jul 28, 2014 at 10:10 pm

      Of course he’s funding them, without question. He’s armed Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and ISIS, why wouldn’t he arm Hamas as well? He helped Al-Qaeda take over Libya, defended Al-Qaeda when they attacked the US Embassy in Libya killing 4 Americans and a US Ambassador, he freed 5 Top Taliban commanders in exchange for a traitor, he helped put the Muslim brotherhood in power in Egypt, thank God the Egyptians didn’t stand for that. They know Obama is an Islamic terror agent, it’s just too bad the fools in the US do not.

      • duh_swami says

        Jul 29, 2014 at 8:18 am

        That’s called treason…ainit?

    • mgoldberg says

      Jul 28, 2014 at 10:23 pm

      Why would you be surprised? We, have indeed been supporting the ‘Jihadists’
      We overthrew Gaddafi, when our threat to Saddam Hussain was seen as real- they rolled up their nuclear and germ warfare supplies and said here take them. Then, Obama abandoned him- as bad as he was, for those who are much worse. He brought in the Muslim Brotherhood to Egypt, and abandoned the Egyptians after they overthrew the MB. He supports all the jihadists. He refuses to let them be destroyed. He just abandoned the chance for Israel to actually defang Hamas demanding they not only completely end their self defense but rebuild their ability to do all they’ve done- ergo, all the billions that went to build their society these last 9 yrs, that went to terror tunnels, missiles, and terrorism, gets a pass so they can ‘rebuild’ and have Israel, pay for them. This is the Jizya, the fored taxation Islam demands of all others, and Obama is their direct enabler.

    • Teresa Smith says

      Jul 29, 2014 at 8:32 am

      When the United States turns away from supporting Israel, there will be consequences. The only hope for both of our nations is to get Obama out of the White House as soon as possible. Impeach!

  2. Civilus Defendus says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 9:59 pm

    Our inability to effectively use our higher brain functions with respect to the Middle East (N. Africa, SE Asia, Europe, etc) is that we have for decades used language to evade truths and posture to hide facts. Islam and its prime directive to impose sharia globally by invitation, subjugation or (armed or covert) jihad IS THE PROBLEM. It is time to cease allowing the supposedly-aggrieved supremacists to spew their narrative and play the victim without being challenged. The “Palestinians” are a tool in the jihad against Israel. Israel is a tool in the jihad against the US. Truth needs bold messengers in the face of persistent, media savvy, narrative spewers. There is a moral argument here, and HAMAS is bereft of morality.

  3. Richie says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 10:00 pm

    Has the UN made ANY public condemnation of the Muslim genocide of the Coptic Christians currently underway in Egypt? I didn’t think so

  4. Richie says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 10:00 pm

    Has the UN made ANY public condemnation of the Muslim genocide of the Coptic Christians currently underway in Egypt? I didn’t think so

    • Ted says

      Jul 29, 2014 at 5:49 am

      Has the US EITHER? “I will stand with the muslims” BHO said that, why does anyone think he didnt mean it?

  5. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 10:12 pm

    The United States once was not afraid to do what it had to do to win a war with an uncompromising enemy. Below is a link to the text (in the English translation) of warning leaflets dropped over Japan just prior to August 6, 1945. Similar warnings were dropped over Europe as well before bombing raids there. I say do what you think is best, Israel.

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/truman-leaflets/

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Jul 28, 2014 at 10:28 pm

      Sorry, let me correct myself. Those warning leaflets were dropped on Japan just AFTER August 6, 1945. However, leaflets were dropped warning of other conventional bombings both in Japan and Europe. The dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima was a surprise.

  6. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 10:25 pm

    Why don’t these blind – or openly evil – people just quit with all the pretences and openly state what they *really* want?

    They want Israel, the sovereign Jewish state, to unconditionally *surrender* to the Mohammedan Mob.

    The non-Muslim countries amongst them are either sh*t-scared of the Mohammedan mob, or bribed and deceived by it; and/ or infected with hatred of Israel, of the Jews (Russia in particular has long been infected with that pathological condition). Despotic/ totalitarian systems like the Chinese and the Cuban probably hate the Jewish state because it is *free*. (That the Chinese totalitarians will do deals with ISrael, for their own benefit, wouldn’t stop them from selling them out).

    They want the annihilation of Israel; the Knesset shut down and demolished, the IDF disbanded, and every Jew and Christian and Samaritan in Israel to either leave and go into exile, or accept dhimmi status, grovel at the feet of the Arab Muslims, and pay jizya to the local Mohammedans who will become their overlords and slavemasters, just as they (the invading and occupying Mohammedan imperialists) were from the 7th century AD to the 20th (1917).

    They want the good old days when Jews were excluded totally from their most ancient sacred site, the tomb of the patriarchs at Hebron, and were even excluded from the Kotel much of the time (or had offal and dung and rocks thrown at them by the occupying Muslims, even when they *were* allowed to approach it).

    That’s what the Islamintern, the OIC, wants, anyway; and it’s what the other fools or despots inhabiting the other seats on the Security Council are agreeing to, when they voted to endorse this “presidential statement”, whether they’re prepared to acknowledge it to themselves, or not.

    If I recall correctly, right now Australia has one of the non-permanent seats on that Council; I hope to God we voted against this stupid, vile statement (which was drafted by *Jordan*, nota bene – who currently represent the “Arab League”, ie the Mohammedan Mob, on the Council ) for if we voted *for* it, or gutlessly abstained, then we sided with the Jewhating – or merely stupid or corrupt – sh*t-heads who currently dominate it.

    Note: I have been hunting about all over the net but I cannot find, anywhere, a breakdown of the *vote*.

    I don’t know *who* on the Council voted *for* the Statement, who (if any) voted against, and who (if any) abstained.

    Can anyone tell me where to look?

    Or don’t they make that kind of thing public?

    Not *one* of the major news outlets that reported on this “presidential statement” from the UNSC has told us whether it was a unanimous vote from all the permanent and non-permanent members, or whether there were any dissenters (even abstainers) at all.

    • Mazo says

      Jul 29, 2014 at 4:17 am

      LOL @ Voldemort-Umbridge’s Army

      the Communist Party doesn’t give a damn what government system/ideology/religion israel uses, it care about business and $$$.

      India, a long time ally of the Soviet Union and socialist bloc, also regularly votes to condemn israel at the UN. Yes, your democratic commonwealth partner (which doesn’t mean a damn thing except cricket and calling their ambassador a “high commisioner”).

      There goes your moronic theory about democracy vs totalitarian governments.

      Also Sri Lanka is allied to China and Pakistan, more proof of your commonwealth rubbish meaning nothing.

      Yasser Arafat called the Indian Hindu PM Indira Gandhi his sister. Arafat also praised Serbian leader Milosevic and invited him to Palestine to celebrate Orthodox Christmas, but israel then threatened to arrest him and turn him over to the Hague.

      Yasser Arafat and the PLO helped train the Armenian ASALA in Lebanon, to assasinate Turkish diplomats in revenge for the Armenian Genocide. Arafat praised the Armenians and their resistance.

      Meanwhile, israel was busy helping upgrade Turkey’s military, and israel continues to help Azerbaijan with its military to this day. Azerbaijan is locked in a state of war with Armenia.

    • Rezali Mehil says

      Jul 29, 2014 at 7:38 am

      DDA,

      Ahhhh… feel better now?
      Tell you what …eat a snicker’s bar… you are not who you are when you are hungry!

      Despite all the bull crap from you, Graven and that tosser Mirren… you are now agreeing with me…tee hee …hee HEEE.

      The biggest threat to Isreal is not the Muslims …those they can bomb away …it’s YOU…the Americans.

      For nearly 60 years the support to Israel has been whittling away …and it is now it is time for sanctions…by the EU and by the Americans, Russians and Chinese on Israel.

      Funnily enough it will be the Saud, Egypt and (perhaps the shaky Indians) who might object but no one else.

      Your banter on “God bless Israel” is starting to fall on deaf years…

      2 state solution …(AND war reparations) here we come…

      More Later …

      Rezali

      • duh_swami says

        Jul 29, 2014 at 8:28 am

        You Mahoundians are so full of petrified bovine fecal matter, your cup runnth over…No matter how you spin current or ancient events, Islam is still an evil ideology, and that you can’t hide behind word magick and word trickery…More later.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jul 29, 2014 at 8:42 am

        Rezali
        Muslims will ALWAYS turn on one another ‘for the sake of Allah’
        If you are honest you will admit this.
        If it ain’t the Jews its the Christians or the Hindus or the Bhuddists
        —– its other Muslims who are not Muslim enough

        Without enemies there is no Islam
        http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-double-edged-sword-of-jihad-116092/

      • Mirren10 says

        Jul 29, 2014 at 3:11 pm

        rezali, rezali, rezali ! You just never learn, do you ? 🙂

        ”Despite all the bull crap from you, Graven and that tosser Mirren” ( 🙂 )

        Nice to see we’re getting up your nose, me old son !

        ”The biggest threat to Isreal is not the Muslims …those they can bomb away …it’s YOU…the Americans.”

        By the way, dumbo, dumbledoresarmy isn’t an American.

        Crapola. Wishful thinking is a *biiiig* mistake, especially when it comes to Eretz Israel. You’ve forgotten a few little things, dumbo. Like, the IDF. Like, Benjamin Netanyahu. Like, patriotic Israelis. Like, Israel has **nukes**. Like, there is a hell of a lot of support for Israel, **worldwide**.

        obama isn’t going to be President for ever, you know. I prophesy 2016 will see a *huuuge** sea change in American foreign policy, especially if a real mensch like Allen West becomes the next POTUS.

        Israel doesn’t need the stinking obama, they have **Bibi** !!!

        ”For nearly 60 years the support to Israel has been whittling away”

        Bollocks. More wishful thinking. India is stretching out the hand of friendship to Israel, now. As is Egypt.

        ”…and it is now it is time for sanctions…by the EU and by the Americans, Russians and Chinese on Israel”

        You ought to become more au fait with current affairs, me old son. Haven’t you noticed there is a **huge** underswell of loathing for the EU, in every European nation ? A **huge** uptick in support for parties that will get us **out** of the EU ?

        How long do you think the EU will last ? Not as long as Israel, betcha !

        ”Your banter on “God bless Israel” is starting to fall on deaf years…”

        Nope. **mohammedan** ears, yes, and putrid leftard Marxists ears, like obama, and tawdry self-seekers ears such as camoron, merkel and the like.

        But on the ears of decent, civilised people, of whom there are many ? God Bless Israel will **always** be on the lips of any who value bravery, truth, decency, civilised values.

        You, of course, know **nothing** of any of these, any more than does the treacherous obama, and the rest of his ilk.

        But I know whose side I’m on, and you know what, rezali ? If it ever came to it, (but it won’t) I’d rather go down on the side of Israel, the side of the right, than float amongst the turds, of whom you would be one.

        • Mirren10 says

          Jul 29, 2014 at 3:15 pm

          Oh, and rezali ?

          Watch and listen to this. **No** mohammedan cess pit will **ever** have what Israel has.

        • Mirren10 says

          Jul 29, 2014 at 3:24 pm

          Oh, I forgot.

          More later, chumbawumba !

  7. richard sherman says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 11:13 pm

    Obama reveres the sociopath Muhammad who personally decapitated 900 unarmed Jews. Anyone who reveres the sociopath Muhammad will celebrate the destruction Israel and the death of Jews including every member of the US State Department.

  8. Islofob IS-1 says

    Jul 29, 2014 at 1:38 am

    Have never heard of a “unconditional ceasefire” , and never one where you are changing the conditions of one as you demand it.

    If we throw Israel under the u.n. , then the gloves may come off in ways the world has never seen, or should ever want to.

    Caution to the wise, we must not turn away from Israel.

    • umbra says

      Jul 29, 2014 at 5:01 am

      Fools at the security council will try and force Israel to stop so hamas can regroup and rearm, then continue the cycle again in a few years. It is a circus that many “world leaders” run again and again, dripping with the blood of others.

      Israel ultimately will comply under the pressure of economic sanctions. One can only hope that the IDF finishes all their primary objectives before the sec-council comes to save hamas.

  9. David, Thailand says

    Jul 29, 2014 at 6:44 am

    Nothing unusual, for a mad world going proudly madder.

  10. nacazo says

    Jul 29, 2014 at 8:11 am

    ” the Obama administration could largely be counted on to watch Israel’s back in the U.N. Security Council”

    until it really mattered at which point they decided to stab Israel in the back.

  11. nacazo says

    Jul 29, 2014 at 8:11 am

    ” the Obama administration could largely be counted on to watch Israel’s back in the U.N. Security Council”

    until it really mattered at which point they decided to stab Israel in the back.

  12. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 29, 2014 at 8:12 am

    Ladies and gentlemen.

    Further up the thread, you will see two of our resident mohammedans – or, rather, the demonic entities that inhabit them – showing us what Hugh Fitzgerald was wont to call “Minds on Islam”.

    Pure ugliness.

    Pure evil.

    Gloating, sneering, leering evil.

    • Daniel Triplett says

      Jul 29, 2014 at 1:19 pm

      The demon must really have a strong grip on someone who visits Jihad Watch daily, reads all of Robert’s articles, yet still defends Satan’s Islam.

  13. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 29, 2014 at 8:16 am

  14. duh_swami says

    Jul 29, 2014 at 8:38 am

    The UN is a cesspool that should be flushed, and then dismantled.

  15. Richie says

    Jul 29, 2014 at 11:38 am

    If the west still had strong conservative leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, would the violent Muslims still be able to get away with such mayhem?

  16. Elisheva14 says

    Jul 29, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    Obama is just being consistent. Israel needs to act on its own. It has the support of Israeli citizens and that is what is important.

  17. rabrooks says

    Jul 29, 2014 at 1:59 pm

    Look at his track record! hasn’t gotten a thing right since osama bin laden! None of these idiots knows anything about the use of force, but keeps breaking things then moving on to the next victim! Leaving a clear trail of wreakage…….

  18. Liza Jones says

    Jul 29, 2014 at 5:05 pm

    The oil imperative! He is playing hardball with Canada over the Keystone pipe line to appeal to environmentalists at home but now laying the foundation for business as usual with the new upcoming Islamist oil barons. When has it ever been any different with US Foreign Policy? Look at all the seedy precedents: South and Central America, Afghanistan, and always the Middle East. It’s just the way “ugly America” stays on top!

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