US vetoes UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire | Semafor
www.semafor.com
The vote came a day after the U.S. Secretary of State issued his strongest criticism of Israel since the war started.

The U.S. vetoed a UN Security Council resolution Friday calling for a ceasefire to the fighting in Gaza.

The U.S. and Israel have opposed calls for a ceasefire, saying it would strengthen Hamas.

The vote was delayed for several hours over worries the U.S. would veto it. Diplomats from several Arab nations met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to try to convince the U.S. to abstain from voting.

As a permanent member of the council, the U.S. has veto power, and had signaled it planned to block the resolution. The U.K. abstained from the vote, while the 13 other members of the council voted for it.

read more: https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2023/un-security-council-votes-on-gaza-ceasefire-resolution-amid-israel-hamas-conflict

    • 520@kbin.social
      421·
      11 months ago

      Both options would have been collosal twats about this. It’s still valid to call the person currently being a twat about it a twat.

        • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
          171·
          11 months ago

          Did Trump actually say? That’s funny considering he’d do the same. I have been saying it since the first US veto back in October, I even thought I came up with it. It is true and has a nice ring to it.

          The real question is why is the US run by racist genocidal geriatrics from both parties? Fix your democracy before trying to export it to the Middle East.

        • Zorque@kbin.social
          184·
          11 months ago

          The Afghanistan pullout was planned during the Trump admin, mind you, Biden basically just didn’t back out of it. Not saying it wasn’t a good thing, but using it as a comparison against the administration that planned it is a bit disingenuous.

          And the comparison of drone strikes under Obama is as much a Trumpism as “Genocide Joe”, so using it as a defense against using Trumpisms is also disingenuous.

          Not saying Biden isn’t a far sight better than Trump or anything else coming from the conservative camps, but he’s no less of a warhawk at this point.

          • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
            310·
            11 months ago

            I agree that Biden isn’t really much less of a warhawk, but the point I’m making is that there’s probably been if anything slightly less genocide by the US under Biden than other presidents, which just makes the nickname more ridiculous.

            • Zorque@kbin.social
              65·
              11 months ago

              It’s not that he’s much less of a warhawk, he’s no less of a warhawk.

              Yes, the nickname is dumb, but that’s mostly because it’s a Trumpism, not that it doesn’t have a tinge of accuracy to it.

              • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
                25·
                11 months ago

                I dunno, I still think there’s a valid point to it. Previous presidents increased the amount of genocide, they continued and added to previous actions, Biden has done things to decrease it.

                Like, if you were to plot genocide on a logarithmic scale, the slope would be lesser under Biden.

                Like, if inflation has been really high, but then becomes a bit less high.

                It’s objectively better. Still definitely not good, but not as bad as before, but also still not getting better quickly enough.

        • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
          142·
          11 months ago

          It is not a Trumpism. I’m from Saudi Arabia, it is an apt description for the most genocidal maniac leader of the 21st century. Trump possibly being worse is just a condemnation of the USA.

          Also, past US president were war criminals who should have faced trial for their war crimes, but Joe is escalating it to an unprecedented genocide.

      • pyr0ball@sh.itjust.works
        43·
        11 months ago

        10x genocide?

        He would let the Palestinian people die and start wars with other countries to distract the rest of us

        • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
          9·
          11 months ago

          Biden is already not only letting thousands of Palestinians die but he is sending Israel the weapons to kill them with.

          Also Biden is already dragging the US into further wars in my region. If Trump was going to start new wars he would have already done so. People forget that Biden played a role in Bush’s invasion of Iraq and Obama’s drone strikes on hospitals.

        • Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
          73·
          11 months ago

          start wars with other countries to distract the rest of us

          yeah, biden would NEVER do that

          biden would NEVER expand nato, he would also NEVER block negotiations in ukraine, just like he would NEVER keep escalating tensions with china over taiwan