The UN Security Council needs to immediately evacuate Palestinian civilians from Rafah, given its stated concerns about the humanitarian emergency. Instead, the UN has intentionally blocked civilian evacuation, and continues to choose instead to keep the global spotlight on Israel, not on Hamas and its use of human shields. While Israel has shown repeated concern for civilians and attempted to “do all it could” to evacuate Gazans in Rafah, it has emerged that the UN refused to allow it. The UN does not consider Hamas to be a terrorist group, according to UN Relief Chief Martin Griffiths, and so the UN stands with Hamas, including in its use of human shields. Antisemitic and anti-Israel media also aids and abets Hamas in its goal of obliterating the Jewish state by serving as its propaganda mouthpieces.
Hamas Political Bureau member and former Interior Minister Fathi Hammad took the gloves off in December and declared that the Palestinians are aspiring to establish a global Islamic caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital. The UN is controlled by Islamic states and in 2018 adopted a statement “demanding respect for Islam.”
The UN resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire was put forth by Algeria “on behalf of Arab States.” In Algeria, where Islam is the state religion, some people still hold black slaves and torture them, but the Algerian government pretends to care about human rights. The country also engages in “mass death sentences marred by unfair trials, torture claims,” but this gets ignored, as do human rights abuses in other Islamic states — notably the Islamic Republic of Iran, a chief funder of the jihadist effort to obliterate Israel, which was appointed to chair the 2023 UN Human Rights Council Social Forum.
Although the US vetoed the immediate ceasefire resolution, it also supports a temporary ceasefire, which will do damage to Israel’s war on Hamas, allow Hamas to regroup, and place Israel in a severely vulnerable position.
“US vetoes Algerian resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza,” United Nations, February 20, 2024:
The UN Security Council met again in emergency session in New York on Gaza Tuesday, where the United States vetoed a resolution put forward on behalf of Arab States by Algeria demanding “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire that must be respected by all parties”.
The latest Council meeting on the Middle East crisis spiralling outwards from the war in Gaza has ended, with another US veto and an abstention on the part of the UK, while Algeria’s resolution gained support from 13 out of the 15 members around the iconic horseshoe table.
Here are the key points:
HIGHLIGHTS
US uses veto power to quash Algeria’s draft resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and presents rival text that would condemn Hamas but also support a temporary ceasefire
The US is expected to circulate its own draft later on Tuesday but news reports suggest negotiations will be far from easy, with both Russia and China voicing strong opposition to the third use of a veto by the US on ceasefire resolutions
Council members lament continued suffering in Gaza and lambast possible Israeli military operation into Rafah….
Mind watch says
How easy it is for past atrocities to find a legitimate voice in the UN Securities Councils’ true beliefs and agenda. Hamas atrocities on the 7th of October remain a violent, unspeakable, cruel wiping out of lives. It remains as it is for what it is – cold blooded murderers with child’s blood dripping down their fingers.
It cannot be taken out of this context and seen in a ‘positive’ light in another as a key component of this irrational condemnation of Israel.
Whether knowingly or not, those who are pushing this life-violating deception are now of the same mind as Hamas, and share their guilt, shame and slaughter.
somehistory says
The un is replete with ghouls….who are either mozlum, mozlum-frindly, or mozlum-afraid. those groups want Israel to give up and die.
A ceasefire would make it so much easier to kill the Jews and finish off the State of Israel. that is their goal; their aim and desire. Bloodthirst mozlums, yearning to rape, torture and murder many more than they have done already.
A veto…a bit of a surprise, given all that biden and crew have said about their appeasement of mozlums demanding pressure be applied against Israel. (they don’t call it appeasement, but say other words that lead to the same conclusion.)
If they managed to destroy Israel, to which nation would they then turn with their murderous rage, rapes and tortures?
Rick Olsha says
Ceasefire AFTER the return o innocent hostages !!
AM ISRAEL CHAI !!!!!
OLD GUY says
No cease fire until Israel destroys HAMAS and it supporters, just as they would destroy Israel if they could.
Spiro says
Why are we still in the UN
It’s anti American
It’s a sink hole for our tax money
It doesn’t promote peace
It’s nothing but a debating society
Etc