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US vetoes UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire (www.semafor.com)
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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

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[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago

Trump would be 10x worse, or is that what you had in mind?

[-] 520@kbin.social 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago

Sure, but someone repeating Trump’s insults is also a twat.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years 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.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

We are all twats on this cursed day.

At least everyone in America is

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

What's 10x worse than a genocide?

[-] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago

10 genocides?

[-] pyr0ball@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

10x genocide?

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

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years 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.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Genocidecimal.

[-] Armen12@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Ok, but Joe Biden didn't take out MBS, shakes hands with Dictator Xi, won't actually call for sanctions on countries with dictators and now supports a genocide against Palestinians. How is he any better?

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