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mapsontheweb · 19 hours

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How long was each country represented on the United Nations Security Council?

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#maps #NoChopp #un security council

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historyforfuture · 3 days

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limelocked · 5 months

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This genocide is the second instance in the last five years that really highlights that the permanent members of the security council should not have a voice if they are involved in an issue

Russia should not be able to veto resolutions on ukraine, America should not be able to veto resolutions on israel

Like Secretary General Guterres said in the meeting; “the eyes of the world and the eyes of history are upon us”

The American exceptionalism propaganda is failing and rotting, I will never forgive nor forget the country who didn’t listen to the world and it’s own people begging it to stop funding extermination, not in a million years

#i shall never let history be kind towards the governments who let this happen #palestine #yemen #tel aviv #un security council

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wizard-spells · 1 month

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"The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the immediate, unconditional release of all hostages." [x]

Notably, the US abstained from this vote.

This is not the end. We must keep fighting for a Palestine free from Israel's genocidal clutches.

#free palestine #palestine #current events #un security council

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social-battery-low · 9 days

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Palestinians bidding for full UN membership is happening right now. The fact that they even have to do this is unbelievably sad. I'm crying and can barely watch. I don't even want yo LOOK at the Israeli rep. This us 2024, guys. 2024 and people in the world STILL have to do this.

#free gaza #free palestine #ceasefire #gaza strip #palestine #abandon biden #gaza genocide #gaza #rafah #joe biden #palestine news #israel #united nations #un security council #iran

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4ft10tvlandfangirl · 4 months

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Watched the UN Security Council votes earlier and English failed me. Didn't even realise I started cursing in my mother tongue until my coworker asked me what happened.

If I feel this way I honestly can't imagine what Palestinians everywhere, but especially in Gaza, are feeling. The anger, the frustration, the despair...while the leaders of the 'free world' continue to facilitate these atrocities.

Can't stop, won't stop, calling for a ceasefire. CEASEFIRE NOW❗Free Palestine 🇵🇸

#gaza #gaza strip #free gaza #ceasefire now #un security council #un vote #palestine #free palestine #current events #end the genocide #end the occupation #human rights #humanitarian aid #humanitarian crisis #permanent ceasefire

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intricatecakes · 1 month

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The UN-approved ceasefire is for the NEXT TWO WEEKS ONLY. Keep protesting, keep boycotting, keep calling your government representatives until the ceasefire is PERMANENT.

#palestine #free palestine #un security council #united nations #ceasefire #from the river to the sea

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phoenixyfriend · 1 month

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The Shift in America's Support of Israel as of 3/25/24

Okay, so there have been three specific incidents recently that I'd like to cover for you guys.

Chuck Schumer's speech calling for a new election in Israel, which I have spoken about here and here. (3/14/24)

Congress voting to ban UNRWA funding until 2025, which I've seen a lot of people talking about, but often without an actual understanding of what the situation actually is. (It's bad, but it's not the same type of bad as people think.) (3/24/24)

The US abstaining from a UN Security Council vote, which is effectively voting against Israel when they have thus far been the only ones to use veto power in this manner. (3/25/24)

I'm not going to go into detail about Schumer, since I've already covered it. tldr: it's a very specifically worded speech that does not explicitly threaten Israel, but if you do even the slightest bit of reading between the lines, that is absolutely what is happening.

Also, before I move forward: the US may not be donating to UNRWA for the rest of the fiscal year, but you can. They have direct donation links.

UNRWA funding has been on hold for a while, but this is... complicated. Not morally, because UNRWA does need funding and to defund it is truly unconscionable, but many of the "Biden signed it into law" posts are approaching it with this implied message that UNRWA would have funding if not for Biden signing it.

Except that isn't really how the US government works. Especially this government.

Funding for 2024 was supposed to be passed months ago. We are on the verge of another government shutdown. UNRWA funding is not on the table until the House swings blue. I hate to be the one to say this, but it's... like, it's not something I can change alone. I know you're tired of hearing it, but voting in November is the key to fixing a whole lot of problems.

One of the core duties of Congress is passing budgets. For those budgets to pass, they need to be approved by the House (Republican Majority), the Senate (Democrat Majority), and the President. The reason it has taken five months to pass a yearly budget (the deadline iirc was September or October) is because anything approved by one chamber is shot down by the other.

UNRWA's de-funding is tied to Ukraine funding (and a few other things). Biden refusing to sign would not have brought back UNRWA funding. The funding is already on hold. We do not have the votes to bring it back. We just straight up do not have enough seats in the House to make that happen. Biden refusing to sign would have resulted in both UNRWA and Ukraine not having funding, indefinitely. Signing it resulted in one of the two getting funding.

This is not a situation where funding was approved and now cut. This is not a situation where money was already flowing to UNRWA. This is a situation where money wasn't going anywhere, because Congress is a split shitshow.

Think of it like this: Funding is water coming from a spigot. Congress can turn it on or off, and it's currently off. Biden can smack away the hand coming to twist the valve, but he can't touch the valve himself. That's what the presidential veto is. Unfortunately, the spigot is already off, and Biden can't twist it back on when Congress isn't already reaching to do so.

Is this bad? Yes! UNRWA's funding should never have been cut! We should still be very, very upset about this! But I need you to understand that the way the US government works is not a dictatorship. Biden cannot just overrule Congress, especially when we're on the verge of another shutdown.

I do not think it is fair or even really acceptable that UNRWA's funding was viewed as an appropriate point of compromise. I'm just, unfortunately, also aware that this particular legislation is a tug-of-war that was never going to end with funding going to Palestine, not with the current Republican control of the House.

"But Biden sent money to Israel a bunch of times--" Yeah, and he's paying for it in the polls. He's aware that people are pissed at him. That choice is already biting him in the ass.

Biden is not perfect and I am never going to claim he is, but please recognize that the UNRWA funding pull is not a current action. It is a past action that is now being sustained because the House is red. You want to bring back UNRWA funding? Get rid of Marjorie Taylor Green and her entire cohort.

The other reason I'm less than eager to view that UNRWA thing as Biden being pro-Israel is because the US has finally abstained on a UN vote instead of vetoing.

When the US has been the only voice on Israel's side in the Security Council this whole time, abstention is functionally voting against them. We already knew that 13-14 of the other 14 members were going to vote pro-ceasefire. They have been this entire time. The US abstaining is functionally agreeing.

Why did the US not just vote for the ceasefire, then? No idea. Might be a treaty thing. I don't really need to know, because the result is that the UN Security Council has finally passed a measure against Israel, and those things are legally binding, and we know it's a big step because Israel's government is not happy.

When paired with the Schumer speech from a week and a half ago, it indicates a major shift in US foreign policy.

From the Al Jazeera article:

The US had repeatedly blocked Security Council resolutions that put pressure on Israel but has increasingly shown frustration with its ally as civilian casualties mount and the UN warns of impending famine in Gaza. Speaking after the vote, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield blamed Hamas for the delay in passing a ceasefire resolution. “We did not agree with everything with the resolution,” which she said was the reason why the US abstained. “Certain key edits were ignored, including our request to add a condemnation of Hamas,” Thomas-Greenfield said. [...] The White House said the final resolution did not have language the US considers essential and its abstention does not represent a shift in policy. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the US failure to veto the resolution is a “clear retreat” from its previous position and would hurt war efforts against Hamas as well as efforts to release Israeli captives held in Gaza.

This action has also resulted in Israel pulling plans for "a high-level delegation" to visit the US for discussions on the invasion of Rafah (which Biden has purportedly been warning against for a while).

“We’re very disappointed that they won’t be coming to Washington, DC, to allow us to have a fulsome conversation with them about viable alternatives to them going in on the ground in Rafah,” [John] Kirby told reporters. [...] Last week, Netanyahu promised to defy US appeals and expand Israel’s military campaign to Rafah even without its ally’s support.

There are other complications and details here, such as that the resolution does not call for a permanent ceasefire, and that US tensions with Russia and China are still somehow playing a role in the negotiations over the ceasefire text, but ultimately...

The US abstaining is a good thing. Schumer's speech is a good thing. They are not enough, but they are good things. They are steps forward.

The pull of funding from UNRWA is not a good thing. It is, in fact, a very, very bad thing. It just also looks a lot like it was unavoidable.

So call your reps, and vote come November. It's a long slog and we all know it, but we can't make change without dedication.

To support my blogging so I can move out of my parents’ house, I do have a ko-fi. Alternately, you can donate to one of the charities I list in this post.

#united states #israel #gaza #palestine #call your reps #voting #un security council #united nations #joe biden #congress #chuck schumer #unrwa #current events #phoenix politics #politics

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doorhine · 4 months

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This is from Al Jazeera’s live updates on the genocide in Palestine as of 12/22/23. The tweet was also featured in the update so I linked it here in addition to the screenshot.

#palestine #un security council #news #current events #twitter #al jazeera

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decolonize-the-left · 4 months

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The USA, Canada, & Europe need to cease all aid for Israel and pull all military out of the middle east and Red Sea NOW.

And for their complicity, strip them of their security council veto powers in the UN

End the occupation.

pass it on

#reblog #free palestine #gaza #Palestine #from the river to the sea Palestine will be free #un #un security council #united nations

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theinconvenientlifestyle · 6 months

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