U.S. Is Now Finally Isolated Globally Over Its Veto On Un Resolution For Ceasefire

The United States is finally facing a big isolation from its supporting countries over its continuing backing to the war crimes of Israeli defence forces in the Gaza strip. The Biden government faced an international condemnation on Tuesday night after its representative vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.

What was significant was that even, Britain, a close US ally in the present US backing to Israel in the Gaza war, abstained in the vote, but all of the remaining 13 security council members backed the resolution, reflecting the strong support from countries around the globe for ending the war. France, a leading member of NATO was among the countries supporting the UN resolution.

The war between the Hamas militants and Israel started on October 7 last year following sudden attack by Hamas on Israeli positions and killing both Israeli soldiers as also taking hostages. The Israel retaliated. Many countries decried the Hamas action at that time, but Israel continued with its barbaric killing of the civilian population in the Gaza strip declaring that they would not stop the war till a single Hamas militant was alive. The entire objective is to do ethnic cleansing by driving out the Palestinians from the Gaza strip.

Since October 7, in the last four and half months,, more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s military offensive, the vast majority of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. More than 1300 Israeli soldiers have been killed .The difference is that while the Hamas militants killed mostly the Israeli soldiers, the Israelis targeted the Palestinian civilians including the women and children. Earlier also the US vetoed the UN resolution but this time, the support in favour of UN resolution was widespread.

China’s UN envoy Zhang Jun expressed “strong disappointment and dissatisfaction” with the veto by Washington. The envoy said that the US veto sends a wrong message pushing the situation in Gaza into a more dangerous one. The objection to ceasefire by the US is nothing but a green light to Israel to continue slaughter, he said.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez also blasted the US, saying that by blocking the ceasefire call, US officials made themselves “accomplices of this genocide of Israel against Palestine.”

There was further criticism of the US veto from France, Norway Russia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, among others. It was the third US rejection of a security council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.US ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield however claimed that the resolution, tabled by Algeria, would “negatively impact” sensitive negotiations on a hostage deal and a pause in fighting for at least six weeks.

Across Gaza, Israel’s killing spree continued, with at least 67 Palestinian lives lost in the last two days .Aid group Doctors Without Borders said that two people had been killed when a shelter housing its staff in the Gaza Strip was struck during an Israeli operation in an area where Palestinians have been told to seek shelter.

The World Food Programme (WFP) announced a pause in food and aid deliveries to northern Gaza on Tuesday after its drivers faced gunfire and violence from desperate residents swarming the lorries. The UN agency said that one in six children under the age of two were acutely malnourished and people are dying of hunger-related causes. “In these past two days, our teams witnessed unprecedented levels of desperation,” the WFP said.

While a leading BRIC nation South Africa has taken Israel to the International Court of Justice for war crimes and the ICJ strongly condemned the Israeli killings and urged it to take immediate action to stop that, Brazilian President LuizInacio “Lula” da Silva recalled his country’s ambassador to Israel on Monday. This followed Israel saying that Lula would not be welcome in their country until he apologised for comments he made over the weekend that compared Israel’s assault on Palestinians in Gaza to the Holocaust. Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz described Lula’s comments as a “very serious anti-semitic attack.”

The Brazilian president told the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Sunday that “what is happening in the Gaza Strip and to the Palestinian people hasn’t been seen in any other moment in history.

Strangely while most major BRIC nations are taking on Israel for its genocide in Gaza strip, India is still keeping a friendly posture to Israel. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has personal bond with the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and the Indian PM flaunts it. Right now, Israel is recruiting Indian unemployed youth for recruitment in its activities related to war. Many thousands have applied for these war related jobs in Israel. Indian Government is allowing the Indian youth to take up jobs to help the Israeli war machine. (IPA Service)