Russia and China veto US resolution on Gaza over failure to explicitly demand ceasefire
Russia and China veto US resolution on Gaza over failure to explicitly demand ceasefire : Peoples Dispatch
So in case you are wondering if Russia and China were caring about the people in Gaza, this vote shows that they are clearly not. They'd rather take this opportunity that would see the US taking the most confrontantional stance against Israel since the start of the invasion into Gaza, to dunk on the US.
Wtf is the point of passing this bs watered down version? It’s basically a strongly worded letter if it’s not demanding an immediate ceasefire. It also has more bs like Israeli prisoners going free but no mention of any palestinians going free? It’s completely one sided.
It calls for a ceasefire if Israeli hostages are released and for immediate aid to the people of Gaza. If the US starts off at A, support Israel unconditionally, and you start of at B, ceasefire now, and the US gets slowly pressured your way until ultimately, the US enters a resolution that is much closer to B than to A, you don't stomp your foot and say 'that's not B!' and reject it, if you really care about civilians in Gaza, who are starving right now, only in the hopes that in a few months time, the US might've fully moved over to B. When Israel has already invaded Rafah and many Gazans have starved.
US vetoed multiple actual ceasefire resolutions, this resolution did not call for a ceasefire and did not help people of Gaza in any way.
Don't mind me, just leaving this UN news report on the vetoed resolution here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147856
The US-led draft, which took weeks to reach a vote, stated the "imperative" for “an immediate and sustained ceasefire to protect civilians on all sides”, facilitating “essential” aid delivery and supporting ongoing talks between Israel and Hamas militants to create a sustainable end to the hostilities, tied to the release of hostages.
The vetoed draft would have made imperative an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza, with an “urgent need to expand the flow of humanitarian assistance” to all civilians and lifting “all barriers” to delivering aid
How exactly would've this bill 'not helped in any way'?
I swear the main purpose of this resolution—which should have been and was shot down—was to make us suffer tripe like this.
This just lets "israel" continue the genocide after getting only their hostages back (not the thousands of Palestinians they have hostage) and leaving Gaza with less options
Joe is infuriating with these PR moves, it's frustrating that they work so well on people who only digest headlines.
Corporate media are complicit. They craft the headlines to produce this effect.