The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would have called for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants to allow humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip.
I understand why the first proposal from Russia was rejected, but this one should have been pretty uncontroversial. This is really a WTF moment for US diplomacy.
Honestly it is completely normal for the US to veto these actions against Israel. Basically for anything to get through the security council it has to be targeting some one who is not friends of one of the 5 permanent members; The USA, The UK, France, China, and Russia. So that happens almost never. By the way the permanent members were all the counties that had atomic bombs at the time of formation. Not that is relevant to this discussion but a great little mind fuck factoid.
I understand why the first proposal from Russia was rejected, but this one should have been pretty uncontroversial. This is really a WTF moment for US diplomacy.
Not really, considering the US’s past actions and decisions, especially regarding Israel.
Unfortunately not. If you’ve been paying attention, this aligns pretty well with their behavior in the past.
Honestly it is completely normal for the US to veto these actions against Israel. Basically for anything to get through the security council it has to be targeting some one who is not friends of one of the 5 permanent members; The USA, The UK, France, China, and Russia. So that happens almost never. By the way the permanent members were all the counties that had atomic bombs at the time of formation. Not that is relevant to this discussion but a great little mind fuck factoid.
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