US vetoes UN resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza because there's no link to a hostage release
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America, please just fuck off...
Good one.
Every country has problems with school shootings, homeless, institutional racism, voting for billionaire backed criminal dictators, PFAS and lead, insane wealth gaps and I can go on and on. So why pick on a shit hole country?
sigh
It'll never end until Netanyahu is in jail and IDF soldiers face charges.
Of course it will end before that will ever happen, when the genocide is complete.
don't forget the inquiry into whether exterminating an entire ethnic group counts as genocide
Do you have any proof of extermination of an ethnic group?
Is there a term for a self-cuck?
Bidening.
You done' bidened yourself.
Thanks O'Biden!
Yeah, screw those hostages. SMH
Honestly don't understand how hostages weren't a required part of that resolution.
Edited to include the "required" component. There is nothing requiring a hostage release with the ceasefire, to clarify my initial statement.
It was. Just not the way Israel wanted. So the US vetoed it for them.
It wasn't the way the us wanted it. They've held since the beginning of this that hostages must be released if a ceasefire is established. This resolution did not require that.
https://usun.usmission.gov/explanation-of-vote-on-a-un-security-council-resolution-on-the-situation-in-the-middle-east/
Everyone knows Hamas would not have accepted releasing the hostages unconditionally. This ceasefire proposal was the product of weeks/months of back and forth and where everyone on both sides agreed was the best way to move forward as it involved concessions on both sides. The US then vetoed it last minute since the killing Palestinians is more important than anything else.
The source I provided does not support your opinion.
https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15723.doc.htm
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority both accepted this resolution.
Sinwar did not accept it, so no, Hamas officially did not accept it. While members of Hamas had taken it favorably, he did not, and that's what counts.
Probably because Israel has never been serious about negotiations to free the hostages. It's their excuse to continue their genocide, after all.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/20/middleeast/netanyahu-offers-5-million-and-safe-passage-for-returning-hostages-intl/index.html
Okay and? Doesn't change his attitude towards ceasefire negotiations. In other words, if you wanted a ceasefire resolution that demands returning the hostages at the same time as the ceasefire we had one in June and it predictably went nowhere.
Yes it does, if he's willing to do that wouldn't that open up options for negotiations? And why did resolution 2735 go nowhere?
Because Israel didn't seriously engage with Hamas to free the hostages. It was pretty clear when Israel learned of the resolution and reaffirmed their goal to destroy Hamas instead of saying literally anything about a ceasefire.
The resolution itself says Israel accepted it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2735?wprov=sfla1
While initially Netanyahu grumbled, Israel accepted it.
https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-june-24-2024/
While members of Hamas had accepted the proposal, and after bad faith negotiations from Hamas, the one guy who actually had the power to accept it did not. Netanyahu's fear of losing power aside, had Hamas actually accepted the proposal, this would have panned out better. It would force Netanyahu to rebuff the acceptance of the proposal without being able to say Hamas made unworkable demands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war_ceasefire_proposal
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https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-october-17-2024/
https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-august-7-2024/
I do. Hamas won't give them up, so a ceasefire including them is irrelevant. They'd much rather blame the israe for noncompliance