15 countries voting, they lost 13-1 (UK abstained), literally only the US voted against the resolution and yet they can veto it.
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It is clearly US and UK vs Gaza children.
"Oh hamas did this and that so lets kill them all, stop water food and aid and move 2 million around" is not justified ...
This was always the plan.
People are wising up but I doubt anything can stop it now.
Cat is out of the bag.
Username checks out.
No but seriously, you're right.
It is clearly US and UK
The UK abstained, that is explicitly not supporting the US. It's not objecting either, but it's not supporting.
What I find interesting is that the PM Rishi Sunak talks in full support of Israel in national politics, yet on the international stage the stance is now slightly more neutral.
It is a scam happened before, countries abstain because they know the US would veto. If UK didn't abstain I think the resolution would pass. That's why they did it, help to not let the resolution pass and it doesn't look bad as veto.
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Its a desperate attempt not to piss off even more voters. While still supporting party funders ideals.
Does a "no" vote by the US automatically veto it? Or did they have to take an additional action? If the vote alone didn't veto it, that's the perfect place to hedge your bets. Vote no, then don't veto it. You can claim both sides then to appease everyone.
No by the US (or China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom) means veto.
Well that's dumb. But rules are rules.
aww shucks we have to allow genocide its the rules
It was more meant that they couldn't vote no then not veto. That being the case they should have at least abstained like the UK.
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US refuses to block Israeli genocide of Palestinians.
US actively supports Israeli genocide of Palestinians.
I don't expect Joe Biden to act against his interests, but I also can't believe he thinks this is in his interest! Are there that many people in America who think this is the right thing to do? People danced when Henry Kissinger died, who fails to see the legacy of this?
He's banking on "trump bad, I good". So many idiots are falling for this and will chase you out of the room with their pitchforks if you said you won't vote for genocide Biden.
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These are times when I'm ashamed to be an American.
I'm 70 years old. Of course it's not the first time. Cute meme though.
Nowadays I wonder if you guys have any times you aren't.
Trump years aside, I've rarely been so ashamed of my country. And I'm no spring chicken.
UN is the change.org of the real world. The idea is great but it only works on extremely rare cases. I know its purpose is to stop next world war but it should stop trying to seem like a platform for discussion as there is no discussion to be had when you give someone power to veto any resolution.
No one should have veto power, it makes any organization extremely undemocratic. And given the American arsenal, it's already difficult to be democratic.
The UN with their permanent members are a disgrace. All they do is uphold imperialism and say please don't do that.
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