Team-Biden Continues to Demand Genocide of Palestinians in Security Council

Op-Ed

Late yesterday the United Nations Security Council passed its latest resolution by a vote of 13 for to 0 against.

The current resolution came after the United States had previously vetoed two other resolutions demanding an immediate ceasefire, transfer of hostages, and unhindered entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

That resulted in an Article 377 escalation to the General Assembly, which called for the entire UN membership to vote on an override of the U.S. action. That concluded with the assembly voting on December 12 by a margin of 153 to 10, with 23 abstentions, for “the immediate, durable and fully respected cessation of hostilities leading to the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip”. It also demanded “the unimpeded provision and distribution throughout the Gaza Strip of humanitarian assistance, including food, fuel, water, medicine and medical supplies”. Other sections of the resolution supported the Palestinian right to their homeland, and called for the nations of the world to work together to achieve peace in a region torn apart by war since Israel first moved in to what was once all Palestinian land.

Under the rules of the UN, despite the urgency of the situation and the overwhelming support of this new resolution by the entire assembly, what was voted on there remains nonbinding and won't be enforced.

The next step was to refer this resolution back to the United Nations Security Council for a version which would direct other nations to comply.

What was agreed yesterday in the UNSC had no resemblance to the December 12 General Assembly version.

The final proposal, amended based on one originally put forward by the United Arab Emirates, directed for all parties to “allow and facilitate the use of all available… routes to and throughout the entire Gaza Strip, including border crossings... for the provision of humanitarian assistance”.

There was no mention of a ceasefire. There was no directive calling for suspending the fighting or a formal “cessation of hostilities”. In its place was a call for all parties to put in place the “conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities”, which is mostly meaningless because there is no timetable for that to happen.

Yet despite that the resolution allows the slaughter of Palestinians to continue, the implication of the carefully crafted resolution is that it would somehow save some lives, but only if Israel is nice enough to comply, which it has no intention of doing. 

The pathetic resolution went through multiple amendments on the way to its final version that wouldn't be vetoed by Israel's puppet, the U.S..

Once it was clear the U.S. would veto anything about a ceasefire, as agreed upon apparently with psychopath Netanyahu, a proposal was put forth with a demand that Israel and Hamas would ensure “the use of all land, sea and air routes to and throughout the entire Gaza“ to bring aid in. Israel objected, arguing that was too easy. They orchestrated the change of that clause as it is now, which says the two parties will arrange for the use of “the most direct routes”. That phrase, which might seem minor, provides Israel with control of where the aid might enter, as with their soldiers, rocket launchers, and military aircraft they do control what constitute “the most direct” means of getting aid into Gaza.

The final version of the resolution does call for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to arrange for an accelerated supply chain for humanitarian aid, which will flow through nations and routes which are not part of the conflict as it exists now. But what also happened along the way was that a proposal which would have given the UN full control of humanitarian aid delivery was deleted at the request of the U.S.

The strongest provisions in the agreement included demands for “the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, as well as ensuring humanitarian access to address medical needs of all hostages” and “the provision of fuel to Gaza at levels that will meet requisite humanitarian needs”. Though not written into the wording, that fuel provision appears to remain mostly under control of Israel.

Shortly before the vote, the disgusting Linda Thomas-Greenfield said in a speech before the UNSC that “the draft resolution is not watered down”, despite that everyone else there knew otherwise.

“The draft resolution is a very strong resolution that is fully supported by the Arab group that provides them what they feel is needed to get humanitarian assistance on the ground,” she continued, to garner support for what remained after all the surgical carving out of passages Israel would not tolerate.

The resolution was passed by a vote of 13-0.

Despite the U.S. Ambassador saying it did support the resolution as written, the U.S. did not vote in favor of it. It abstained.

Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield even took time after the vote to once again to parrot the party line Israel has continued to promote about a need for the Security Council to include wording against Hamas for its actions in the October 7 attack on Israel, without any additional declarations against Israel’s mass murder of over 20,000 Palestinians, including close to 9,000 children.

“We’re deeply disappointed, appalled actually, that once again the council was not able to condemn Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack on 7 October,” she said. “And I can’t understand why some council members are standing in the way and why they refuse to condemn these evils unequivocally.”

Vasily Nebenzya, the Russian Ambassador, made the other abstaining vote in the council yesterday but for a very different reason.

He called what the U.S. had done by deleting so much of substance from the original drafts as having “neutered” what might have been a powerful joint statement by the UN Security Council.

Nebenzya went on to say that the final version of the resolution allows Israel to continue doing whatever it wants in the war and does little to assist the Palestinian people.

“Anyone who votes in favor of the text as it is currently worded would bear responsibility for that, essentially becoming complicit in the destruction of Gaza,” he said. “If this document weren’t supported by a number of Arab states, we would of course have vetoed it.”

Gilad Erdan, Israel’s permanent representative, criticized the resolution’s emphasis on humanitarian aid as “unnecessary and disconnected from reality”.

“Israel already allowing aid deliveries at the required scale,” he lied with a straight clown face.

It is currently estimated that about 200 trucks of aid are entering Gaza each day.  All sources point out that is but a small percentage of what is needed to support the estimated over 90% of the population of Gaza which Israel has forced to move from their homes, and after destruction of most homes, schools, and medical facilities throughout the country.

In a separate report issued on December 21, the United Nations said that already over 25% of the population of Gaza is facing severe hunger due to lack of food. The entire Palestinian population of around 2.5 million, it said, is in danger of “imminent famine” as Israel continues to obliterate what is left of Gaza. More dangerous is the lack of water. 

UN Secretary General Guterres did his best to put a positive spin on the result passed yesterday, while making it clear that without Israel changing its fundamental nature the world should not expect much from what was just agreed on.

“I hope that today’s security council resolution may help improve the delivery of much-needed aid but a humanitarian ceasefire is the only way to begin to meet the desperate needs of people in Gaza and end their ongoing nightmare,” he said in a social media post, as one way to get word out about the result of the vote.

In person speaking to reporters from within the UN, he showed more clarity and bluntness.

“Many people are measuring the effectiveness of the humanitarian operation in Gaza based on the number of trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent, the UN and our partners that are allowed to unload aid across the border. This is a mistake,” the Secretary General explained.

“The real problem is that the way Israel is conducting this offensive is creating massive obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian aid inside Gaza.”

Outside humanitarian aid groups agreed with Guterres, calling the aid provisions grossly inadequate at best.

“This may slow the descent into further humanitarian catastrophe if it results in a kind of leveraging open of aid supply,” said James Denselow, Save the Children’s senior officer in charge of conflict and humanitarian advocacy, in a statement after the resolution was passed. “That’s all positive and welcome, but we shouldn’t be under any illusion that even these aid access components are enough.”

The International Rescue Committee was tougher still in its disgust over the UN Security Council’s inability to do something about the U.S. and Israel continue to block a resolution of more substance.

 “From a humanitarian point of view, the failure of the [UN security council] to demand an immediate and sustained ceasefire is unjustifiable,” it said.

Publisher's Commentary

The world should now realize that the UN Security Council is flawed by design, because it can be controlled by one nation and that one nation is controlled by the fascist state of Israel which has zero respect for international law and fundamental human rights. 

The purpose of the UN Security Council is specifically to address conflicts and save lives. But since it is not suited for that purpose, the solution is for an alternative international or regional organization that is not broken-by-design, but the options are limited. 

The Arab League could have become a strong regional force for peace but most of its members are nations ruled by corrupt and vicious dictators and it of course has an Islamic agenda. It betrayed the Palestinians long ago, does little and isn't evolving. Its members did meet on the Gaza issue but all they could muster was a weak and meaningless response. 

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was created by China and Russia in 2001 initially as a security partnership to tamp down regional ethnic and religious resistance movements and terrorism. It later expanded its scope to include economic development. It is the world's largest regional organization by geographic scope and population, covering about 80% of the area of Eurasia, in which Palestine lies. 

 Its members currently include China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. There are two Observer States interested in acceding to full membership and those include Belarus and Mongolia. Dialog partners include: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cambodia, Egypt, Kuwait, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,  Sri Lanka, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.

The SCO has official observer status and partnerships with the UN and is recognized by various other regional and international organizations. 

With a security mandate that includes preventing and combating terrorism, it could certainly address Israeli terrorism, but might need to admit Palestine as a member and address the terrorist activities of Hamas. One of the problems is that Palestine doesn't officially exist as a country and has no unified government. Gazans voted in Hamas but the rest of Palestine falls under the Israel controlled Palestinian Authority. There is no single or quasi-official government to represent Palestinians. Even Hamas was founded and financially supported by Israel and some suspect that Israel is still running it. That conspiracy theory is supported by the fact that Israel is targeting primarily civilians, not Hamas resistance fighters, and Hamas is not really striking Israelis in a way that would deter them from genocide. 

Still, the SCO has the power to intervene and impose a safe zone in South Gaza. But, its members would have to support such a move and allocate the resources. With India's Hindu government that hates Muslims, India supports the genocide of Palestinians and would not likely support any action and might leave the SCO if it made a move to stop the genocide. 

Then there is the fact that the genocide serves the interests of China and Russia because it is weakening both Israel and the U.S., and both are obstacles to a more multi-polar world in which the U.S. doesn't dominate and exploit all other nations. However, in failing to act, China and Russia are losing credibility and would need to act rather soon to not lose the respect of the rest of the world. China likes to promote itself as a peace-maker and this is a perfect opportunity for it to show global leadership and earn the respect of much of humanity. If China does not act soon enough then Israel and the U.S. and the rest of their fascist alliance will end up being stronger in the end. 

The SCO just completed its annual meeting earlier this week and did not seize the opportunity to show leadership in addressing the genocide. 

Then there is BRICS, the rapidly growing new international power. While it is primarily an economic organization, it could adopt a security mandate as well and the people its members represent would mostly welcome the opportunity to put an end to the genocide. But, again, it is dominated by China, Russia and India, whose governments have their own agendas. 

Yemen has been effective at slowing shipping to Israel through the Red Sea and imposing a cost penalty to the world's lack of action to stop the genocide. Today, Deputy Foreign Minister in Sanaa, Hussein Al-Ezzi, said that Sanaa is seriously considering the idea of forming an international alliance led by Yemen under the name “Palestine Alliance." The alliance would "be open to all revolutionary and liberation movements, in addition to the elites, countries, and oppressed peoples in the world,” he stated. However, Yemen has not yet approved such an alliance. 

Americans could rise up and overthrow their corrupt and vile government but of course won't. Most Americans are mind-controlled and actually support the genocide. 

Given the current sorry state of humanity,  there are currently no easy solutions. The Palestinians will continue to suffer and die until they leave their homeland behind to live in a squalid refugee camp in Egypt or somewhere else, paid for primarily by westerners whose governments have been corrupted by Israel. But, Egypt's corrupt President is not yet allowing Palestinians to cross the border to safety and is holding out for the billions of dollars that Israel intends for other countries to pay. But, it is doubtful that Egypt could stop 2 million Palestinians from crossing the border into Sinai if they chose to do so all at once.

Once Israel has purged Gaza of its inhabitants it will build new cities for hate-filled genocidal Jews on top of the bones of Palestinian children.

In the meantime, we-the-people who aren't heartless and mindless will continue to push for peace and not be accomplices with our silence.