White House Continues to Obstruct UN Security Resolution for Ceasefire in Gaza

The emergency UN Security Council meeting which began yesterday began auspiciously with the first unequivocal, clearly worded demand for an immediate shutdown of the war in Gaza by both Israel and Hamas.

An early draft of the proposed resolution called for “an urgent and lasting cessation of hostilities to allow unimpeded access of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip”.

The latest draft, which is still in debate and has not been made public, as of this moment asks only “for the urgent suspension of hostilities to allow safe and unhindered humanitarian access, and for urgent steps towards a sustainable cessation of hostilities”.

The U.S. is leading the opposition to the original language and has so far not indicated it will even approve the revision currently under fierce debate in the closed session. By doing so, it is also ensuring that the mass slaughter of Palestinians by Israel will continue unabated.

The December 19 Security Council meeting was called after on December 8 the U.S. vetoed for a second time a resolution demanding an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” of the war.

That veto resulted in Egypt and Mauritania issuing a formal request for the UN General Assembly to hold a special cession to pass an override of the U.S. veto. That meeting was held on December 12, called with authorization under Article 377A of the UN rules.

That meeting concluded with 153 of the members present voting in favor of a resolution which demanded as one of many directives “the immediate, durable and fully respected cessation of hostilities leading to the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.” It further called for “the establishment of a mechanism to monitor and ensure the implementation of a durable ceasefire and cessation of hostilities” and “the establishment of a mechanism to monitor and ensure the implementation of a durable ceasefire and cessation of hostilities” under UN regulations passed in 2009.

10 nations voted against the resolution. The United States and Israel led that pro-genocide group of the disgustingly corrupt governments. 23 nations abstained in that vote, not wanting to incur the wrath of Israel and financial penalties from its puppets.

The next step of the plan was to have the UN Security Council meet yet again. The objective was to create a new Security Council resolution which would reflect the letter and intent of the December 12 General Assembly resolution. By passing it, the Security Council would be able to put a mandatory ceasefire resolution in place which would be binding on the members of the United Nations. That meeting didn't start until December 19, after hundreds more innocent Palestinians were massacred. 

Late yesterday, even while the debates were going on over the wording of whatever the U.S. would be willing to allow to pass in the Security Council, information was released about three positive developments which pointed to at least some sort of a temporary shutdown in the mass murders in Gaza.

The first came as word was released that Ismail Haniyeh, a highly ranked politician within Hamas, was in transit to Egypt. He is reportedly leading a Hamas delegation which will be meeting on December 20 with Abbas Kamel, Egypt’s intelligence chief. The topics to be discussed will be the terms for a potential ceasefire and a hostage swap to be coordinated like what happened when the war was temporarily suspended for six days starting November 25.

In parallel, President Isaac Herzog of Israel indicated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was willing to consider such a temporary suspension of the war.

The Jerusalem Post also reported in the early morning hours of December 19 that Israel had formally notified Qatar, one of the nations which is attempted to arrange the next truce, that it would be willing to lay down arms for about a week if Hamas would release another 50 hostages in exchange.

In the background, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman has briefed officials from the U.S. and Israel that Hamas is currently drawing a tough line around what it will take for them to enter into any active agreements with Israel for now. The Palestinian political leadership group said the only way they will consider an end to the war from their end is if Israel agrees to an immediate ceasefire on their end.

On Israel’s end, the line blocking further negotiations is far steeper. According to communications provided by Mossad head David Barnea of Israel to the Qatari Prime Minister, Israel has no plans to end the war until Hamas surrenders, including turning over all weapons and munitions in its possession, and giving up those who orchestrated the October 7 raid by Hamas into Israel.

Even as the issue about the raid into Israel is being brought up again, further information continues to leak within Israel itself that the Israeli Defense Forces were likely responsible for over half the Israeli deaths which happened on October 7. As a propaganda piece which most of the world does not realize is mostly lies, the now often discredited story of the mass killings at Hamas’ hands on October 7 continues to be waved about to incite violence against the Palestinian people and to justify further genocide in Gaza.

There is also reportedly a parallel meeting being held between the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and senior officials of Israel’s Mossad, including head David Barnea, to discuss next steps of engagement and other matters on behalf of both the U.S. and Israel.

The current highly diluted version of the ceasefire demand which began yesterday’s Security Council discussions, with “suspension of hostilities” replacing the originally proposed “urgent and lasting cessation of hostilities”, is up for discussions and a formal vote of the Security Council on the morning of December 20.

Even then it may not pass, as the resolution continues to lack two things both the U.S. and Israel have said in the past are mandatory for any resolution to be acceptable. Those include a formal condemnation of Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel and some recognition that Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas, and by proxy all Palestinians in Gaza.

Since all evidence says the condemnation asked for is both one-sided and substantially distorted, that part is not likely to make it into something the rest of the Security Council would pass. Palestinians have been the victims of Israeli terrorist attacks, massacres and other abuses for more than 100 years and the attacks by Hamas on October 7 were certainly provoked. And as for Israel’s “right to defend itself”, because the United Nations’ own charter does not provide an “occupying force” such as Israel any inherent right to defend itself against a people whose country it occupies and whose rights it has taken from them, this too will not likely make it into any final resolution to be placed before the entire council. Palestinians do have a legal right to defend themselves. What Israel is doing has nothing to do with defending itself but is an insane and entirely evil genocide of hatred against Palestinians which is compelled by Judaism. 

Israel's attempts to reframe reality to justify its atrocities are dead wrong and most of the world not under the influence of Jewish controlled media understand that. 

The expectation for now is that some wording version will come through at the last minute to allow for one more temporary truce in Gaza to begin. But just as with the one which began on December 25, once Israel has extracted sufficient hostages from Hamas the bloodbath is expected to begin again, and continue until the last Palestinian is dead, driven completely off their land or surrenders.

It is also possible a temporary truce agreement will come through which will allow the U.S. to evade it having to go on the record in the Security Council for anything relating to a ceasefire resolution without vetoing it. That could be the U.S.'s only "out" for now, as information released late in the day suggests Netanyahu has talked with Biden's handlers about the proposed versions of the resolutions which are currently in discussion, and reportedly told the White House the U.S. would have to veto anything other than the exact language Israel wants to go through. This is despite earlier reports leaked from Secretary of State Blinken's office that the U.S. was considering an option where it would simply abstain on a watered-down "suspension of hostilities" resolution vote.

As of the end of the day on December 19, the Gaza Health Ministry reports Israeli attacks have murdered 19,667 Palestinians In Gaza since October 7 with about 8,000 of those being children. Thousands more lie buried under the rubble of bombed buildings and their bodies may never be retrieved.