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Agorism
12-20-2012, 07:24 PM
US Alone in Blocking UN Resolution Opposing Israeli Settlements
But for US veto, Security Council would have passed legally binding resolution obligating Israel to stop settlement plan

http://news.antiwar.com/2012/12/19/us-alone-in-blocking-un-resolution-opposing-israeli-settlements



The United States was alone on Wednesday when all other 14 members of the UN Security Council condemned Israeli settlement plans in Jerusalem after abandoning a legally binding resolution because of an imminent US veto.


The Security Council would have passed a legally binding resolution obligating Israel to refrain from building settlements in the controversial area of East Jerusalem known as E1, which was a punitive attempt to nullify a contiguous Palestinian state following the successful UN-bid for implicit recognition of Palestinian statehood this month.

Instead, the council members decided to simply make statements condemning the settlement plans.

India’s U.N. ambassador, Hardeep Singh Puri, explained the process: “Consultations (on a resolution) were held amongst the members of the council and an attempt was made…(to see) if the 15th member could be accommodated,” said Puri, referring to the United States.

“But when we came to the conclusion that that was not likely to happen…it was felt that Plan B – which is what this is essentially – was for members of the council to come out individually and in groupings to make statements,” he said.

While the US has come out to criticize the new Israeli settlement plans, which are patently illegal and which are widely seen as dooming a two-state solution, they could not be brought to join the rest of the Security Council and block the plans.

The US also blocked a Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in February of last year.

Washington continues to aid and abet Israel’s continuing, slow annexation of the West Bank through military occupation, demolishing Palestinian homes, and building up Jewish settlements in their place.

HOLLYWOOD
12-20-2012, 09:25 PM
Of Course... the US actually voiced a phony outrage... the phoniness bullshit of lies from the Israeli puppets imside the DC Beltway was confirmed when they VETOED the UN declaration.

Don't count on the scumbags that own US corporate media to give primetime coverage to this.

Keith and stuff
12-20-2012, 09:45 PM
That makes sense. The UN was created to be a puppet of the US. If the UN does something, it should be whatever the US President wants it to do.

Agorism
12-21-2012, 12:02 AM
The democrats on the next cycle ( the next democrat say 8 years after Obama) might possibly not blindly support Israel, and the republicans might not either.

Bibi is trying to bisect the West bank in half and remove all Palestinians from Jerusalem in order to stop the future creation of a Palestinian state permanently rather than continue to lose political ground.

Right now with the support of Obama, he is free to advance his agenda.