.... so we will show you how to really slow it down by arguing semantics and delaying this vote for as long as we can ....Quote:
Posted by Bill Ryan
.... so we will show you how to really slow it down by arguing semantics and delaying this vote for as long as we can ....Quote:
Posted by Bill Ryan
This livestream hasn't aired yet (it'll go live in a couple hours from now), but considering this is Alastair Crooke, and also considering the video title, it's likely to be both quietly very hard-hitting and most illuminating to hear.Quote:
Posted by Ewan.... so we will show you how to really slow it down by arguing semantics and delaying this vote for as long as we can ....Quote:
Posted by Bill Ryan
SPECIAL: Alastair Crooke: The US an outcast at the UN
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kTyYMIZ1dJM
A very interesting update from AP News, published just a few minutes ago. This again is merely interim, because we'll surely hear the details and the outcome of the vote within a few hours.
The final sentence "Russia holds the key" seems particularly significant, as this implies that Russia might actually veto this because the watered-down wording is simply too weak and ineffective. (No ceasefire?? WTF. :facepalm:)
The entirety of the short article is copied below:
UN to vote on watered-down resolution on aid to Gaza without call for suspension of hostilities
After many delays, the U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote Friday on a watered-down resolution to deliver desperately needed aid to Gaza.
The revised text is backed by the United States, while Russia and other countries still support stronger wording that would include a call for “the urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas.
Council members met behind closed doors on Thursday to discuss a revised draft resolution, then delayed the vote so they could consult their capitals on the significant changes, aimed at avoiding a U.S. veto. A new text with a few minor revisions was circulated Friday morning.
It was unclear whether the resolution would be adopted. One council diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because discussions were private, said Russia holds the key.
Edit to add:
In Alastair Crooke's conversation a few hours ago with Judge Napolitano posted above, Crooke said, in his very quiet but emphatic way, that (a) the draft resolution was "meaningless" and (b) there was a LOT of anger about it expressed by many of the delegates.
The UN Security Council has passed the resolution on aid delivery to Gaza.
13 votes in favor, 0 votes against and 2 abstentions (the US and Russia).
An amendment to the resolution, adding that there must also be an immediate ceasefire, was proposed by Russia. But that was vetoed by the US.
Sad! It's so sad!!!
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The Israeli military used the locations of a catholic church and a convent in #Gaza, which it had obtained from #US congressional staff, to later target them with airstrikes and sniper fire, Politico reported, citing a series of emails from October.
In an attempt to prevent Israeli strikes on religious sites in Gaza, one of the largest #Christian aid organizations there, Catholic Relief Services, passed on the coordinates of several sites in the Strip to Senate staffers, who in turn sent them to Israeli authorities, the report, published on Thursday, highlighted.
According to Politico, the move by the aid organization came in line with attempts to gain a commitment from Israeli authorities not to target at least four buildings in Gaza, including the two that were later struck by the Israeli forces.
#Palestine
https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status...94444308857162
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Graphic content show a shaking child with severe burns as the paramedics cleanse his wounds.
https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1738092002972254342
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⚡️BREAKING
Houthis have sent a message to Saudi Arabia:
We do not want Saudi Arabia to be in any alliance to support Israel.
We will respond to any country that opens its airspace to bomb Yemen.
Saudi Arabia’s future is in danger from Israel and Egypt’s position in rejecting the American coalition in the Red Sea will protect the Suez Canal.
We advise Saudi Arabia and the UAE not to stand with the Israelis in the face of those who support the Palestinian people.
https://x.com/IranObserver0/status/1737900384323043610
Here's Zero Hedge's report on the new UN Security Council resolution. (In October, Zero Hedge was transparently pro-Israel. But now they're much more measured and careful in what they say.)
US, Russia again clash over Gaza as UN Security Council Passes Resolution
Russia and the United States continue to clash in the UN Security Council (UNSC), which was on display again as Friday it passed a new resolution that urges speeding up humanitarian aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip. But both the US and Russia abstained from the vote for contrasting reasons.
The new resolution calls for "urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days to enable full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access."
However, the US is angry it didn't specifically condemn the Oct.7 Hamas attack, while Russia is unhappy that the final resolution watered down any real call for urging a ceasefire.
Describing Moscow's stance, Jerusalem Post writes, "But a weakening of language on a cessation of hostilities frustrated several council members - including veto power Russia - and Arab and Organization of Islamic Cooperation states, some of which, diplomats said, view it as approval for Israel to further act against Hamas for a deadly Oct. 7 attack."
Wrangling over the fine print had carried on all week:Diplomats had been working behind closed doors to finalize the resolution drafted by the United Arab Emirates. US official familiar with the discussions said the draft had started with calling for an “urgent cessation” of hostilities. Neither the United States nor Israel currently supports a ceasefire, so the US countered with “a more passive formulation,” the official said, describing the language that ended up in the resolution.The US had vetoed prior proposed resolutions on the basis that they called for an immediate ceasefire, which Washington rejects in support of ongoing Israeli air and ground operations.
But increasingly, the US has found itself isolated alongside Israel as the death toll soars. The Hamas-Run Gaza Health Ministry has said the death toll now surpasses 20,000 killed - with the majority being women and children. Israel has said multiple thousands are actually Hamas militants.
Russia has been a big backer of UNSC language which demands a halt to fighting:The representative from Russia put an amendment before the council just before the vote that would have changed the language back to the original “immediate cessation of hostilities” but it was vetoed by the US.Hawks in the US have lately sought to make a connection between Putin and the Oct.7 terror attack. Most recently, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley bizarrely claimed at a campaign rally event, "Hamas invaded Israel on October 7th, October 7th is Putin's birthday." By this, she painted a picture of covert Russian support to Palestinian militants.
Haley claimed it was part of a plot to take the world's attention off of Russia's actions in Ukraine. However, there was nothing in the way of evidence offered for such a grand conspiracy theory based on pure speculation.
I wrote this a short while ago on the Should Christians support Israeli military action? thread.
I didn't want to post the details on that thread. But this is what Max Blumenthal told Napolitano, that nearly two hours later I still find one of the the most awful things I've heard in many months. (And there have been a lot of those.)Quote:
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I may be able to listen to it again and transcribe exactly what Max recounted. But I can't do it now. Maybe I can steel myself to do it tomorrow.
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A young Palestinian girl lost her entire family after an Israeli bomb strike. She was the only survivor, but she had to have one of her legs amputated.
When she was interviewed, she said that she wanted to become a doctor so that she could help children who had to learn to live with prosthetic limbs like hers.
Several days later, the hospital she was in was bombed by the Israelis. The girl, who had lost her entire family and who had wanted to become a doctor to help children like herself, had her head blown off.
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🇷🇺 Russia at the UN: "By signing off on this [resolution], the UN Security Council would essentially be giving the Israeli armed forces complete freedom of movement for further clearing of the Gaza Strip. And 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."
"The text of the draft has lost a reference to condemnations of all indiscriminate attacks on civilians. What signal does this send to the international community, that the Security Council is giving Israel a green light for war crimes?"
"A vote on this amendment can be a moment of truth to show who of the members of the Security Council wants to end violence in Gaza and save the lives of civilians, and who is guided by conjunctural considerations. Colleagues, the way that the text is worded currently is the main thing that the USA needs from this resolution.
Under a cunning phrase containing the words 'creating the conditions for a cessation of hostilities', Israel will be given freehand to further, non time limited, entirely unrestrained, indiscriminate bombings of the civilian infrastructure and the civilian population of Gaza."
"Few days, the Security Council, and together with it, the entire world, has been witnessed to the latest, and I'm not afraid to use this word, shameful, cynical and irresponsible conduct by the United States, which is trying to avoid responsibility for the further use of the veto, resorting to all sorts of means of sabotaging the Security Council's adoption of a decision on Gaza."
" The United States, under various pretexts, has been dragging out the negotiating process, deviating from the normal, transparent negotiating work. Instead of this, they have resorted to their favored tactic of gross pressure, blackmail and twisting arms, so that at the last minute, being able to present the members of the council with an ultimatum, either the council adopts a text that is convenient for Washington, or the United States will once again block the adoption of any product."
"The draft that is now being put to a vote was initially, in our view, entirely toothless, but respecting the initiative of our Arab colleagues and their needs, we were ready to support it under pressure from the USA that essentially intercepted the authorship and usurped work on the text behind the scenes at various levels twisting the hands of those in the region."
The Russian amendment got 10 votes in favor and was vetoed by the United States.
https://x.com/upholdreality/status/1738255554013761775