Mike Whitney – The Unz Review May 11, 2024
In a clear rejection of US policies and leadership in the Middle East, the UN general assembly voted overwhelmingly to back the Palestinian bid for full UN membership. The western media have mostly ignored Friday’s balloting since the widely-anticipated results represent another black eye for Washington. But the outcome of the vote is a blow to the Biden administration’s failed Gaza policy as well as a clear indication that America’s blanket support for Israel’s genocide is increasing Washington’s isolation and irrelevance.
The assembly vote was 143 to 9, which means that US diplomatic influence has eroded to the point where the White House could barely coerce 9 of their most-loyal vassal states to reject the motion. It is imperative that people fully grasp the meaning of this vote, which suggests that the so-called “Rules-Based Order” is a withering fraud that grows more anemic by the day. Additionally, the vote provides compelling evidence that the American Century is officially over and that the vast majority of the world’s nations are no longer willing to comply with Washington’s self-serving edicts.
Naturally, Israel’s envoy to the UN, Gilad Erdan, used the opportunity—not to express his remorse at being a participant in his nation’s sadistic rampage in Gaza—but to scold the other members of the assembly for acting courageously on a matter of principle. Without a trace of irony, Erdan accused the other members of “shredding the UN charter with your own hands. Yes, yes, that’s what you’re doing. Shredding the UN charter.”
What Erdan failed to mention is that Israel holds the world’s record for breaking UN resolutions and has yet to encounter an international law that it won’t break with impunity. Israel decided long-ago that its future depended on its ability to use the world’s biggest bully as its personal bodyguard thus allowing it to ignore any legal or moral restraints on its behavior. This is an excerpt from an article at the UK Guardian:
Friday’s resolution …. does not make Palestine a full member, or give it voting rights in the assembly, or the right to stand for membership of the security council, but the vote was a resounding expression of world opinion in favour of Palestinian statehood, galvanized by the continuing bloodshed and famine caused by Israel’s war in Gaza.
Even before the vote in the assembly on Friday morning, Israel and a group of leading Republicans urged US funding be cut anyway because of the new privileges the resolution granted to the Palestinian mission.
The US mission to the UN, which voted against the resolution, warned that it would also use its veto again if the question of Palestinian membership returned to the security council for another vote.
“Efforts to advance this resolution do not change the reality that the Palestinian Authority does not currently meet the criteria for UN membership under the UN charter,” the mission’s spokesperson, Nathan Evans, said. “Additionally, the draft resolution does not alter the status of the Palestinians as a “non-member state observer mission”. UN general assembly votes to back Palestinian bid for membership, The Guardian
Try to appreciate how hypocritical and morally bankrupt the US position really is. For the last 57 years, Republicans and Democrats alike, have paid lip-service to a two-state solution based on UN Resolution 242 which requires Israel to remove its settlements from Palestinian land in occupied Gaza and the West Bank. “Get off Palestinian land and there will be peace.” That is US policy which is backed-up by international law. But, now, under Biden, the US not only opposes Palestinian statehood (which would improve their chances of getting a fair deal.) but is also providing the money, bombs and logistical support for blowing 2 million Palestinians to smithereens. This is the Biden policy in a nutshell, and—in case you hadn’t noticed—it is a clear departure from more than a half century of US foreign policy. The reason Biden is now commonly referred to as “Genocide Joe” is because he is unilaterally breaking international law by providing material support to Israeli barbarism which makes him—and the United States—equally culpable in the premeditated annihilation of the Palestinian people. Here’s more from the Guardian:
…the resolution also makes plain that “the state of Palestine, in its capacity as an observer state, does not have the right to vote in the general assembly or to put forward its candidature to United Nations organs.”
…. “In essence, it gives the Palestinians the airs and graces of a UN member, but without the fundamental attributes of a real member, which are voting power and the right to run for the security council.”….
Despite the wording in the resolution making clear Palestine would not have a vote, Israel called on the US to cut funding for the UN because of the resolution, and a group of Republican senators announced they were introducing legislation to do that.
…. Senator Mitt Romney said in a written statement. “Our legislation would cut off US taxpayer funding to the UN if it gives additional rights and privileges to the Palestinian Authority and the PLO.” The Guardian
Nice, eh? So, the vote didn’t turn out the way Uncle Sam wanted, so now he’s going to “take his ball and go home.” That’s called, ‘being a crybaby,’ and it helps to explain why more and more leaders are joining an alternate bloc of nations called the BRICS. There’s simply no reason to align oneself with a waning superpower that is so morally corrupted that it believes that mass murder is an acceptable foreign policy. (Note: The other countries that opposed Palestine’s bid for membership were Micronesia, Argentina, Hungary, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea and Israel. The list helps to illustrate the ineffectiveness of US diplomacy which has virtually collapsed under Anthony Blinken.)
Not surprisingly, Russia’s Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia offered the most intelligent analysis. Here’s what he said just prior to the vote:
It is our common duty to correct the historical injustice regarding Palestinian aspirations for their own sovereign unified state, which should have been admitted to the United Nations as early as 1948. We are convinced that Palestine’s full UN membership would help to equalize the starting negotiating positions with Israel, which received is status as a UN member state more than 75 years ago.
Admission of the State of Palestine to the UN would be the first practical step towards a just solution of the Palestinian question on the UN-approved platform and within the universally recognized international legal framework. …..
This process should result in the implementation of the internationally recognized two-state solution providing for Israel coexisting in peace and security with Palestine in the 1967 borders and with the capital in East Jerusalem. For this dialogue to succeed, Israel and Palestine must be on an equal footing in accordance with the decisions of the UN Security Council….
….When this draft resolution is adopted, Palestine… will receive a number of additional opportunities for more effective work in the United Nations General Assembly and at the meetings held under UNGA’s auspices. We see this as an opportunity to at least partially correct the historical injustice against the long-suffering Palestinian people, who have lost an unprecedented number of peaceful lives over the past seven months…
… Palestine must become a full member of the UN…. We believe that the most important element of this draft is contained in its recommendation to the UN Security Council to reconsider Palestine’s application for UN membership. It is a moral obligation for all of us. Only full membership will allow Palestine to join the ranks of other members of the Organization and fully exercise the rights that this status implies. ….The Palestinian people have long deserved it. Statement
by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at the 10th Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly
Well said.
Bottom line: Biden and his handlers do not want the Palestinians to have their own state which is why he is assisting Israel in annihilating the native population and replacing them with Jewish settlers. Fortunately, under international law the Occupied Territories will be Palestinian land into perpetuity and there’s nothing the United States or Israel can do about it.
Genocide Joe. What a legacy, not just his but America’s.
The UN is a private corporation..yes that’s right..and who do you think OWNS it…who are its ‘shareholders’… there may be some amongst you who can see the manipulations being enacted..invoked…
They want America dead don’t they?… and funnily enough the same people that own America.. that own the UN… and the method being used is deflection..because of course they offer the Palestinians nothing of value.. critique of the USA being more important (but not the warpig ‘jewes’ that run the War state) than ‘jewe’ slaughter and mass graves ..ah the Chutzpah…
What will they do?…send in NATO?..peacekeepers?…arrest the demented ‘jewe’ that scolded them all for war crimes? because he’s certainly a criminal representing a pirate state..
..somehow I don’t think so..
What say you..but be careful because the Truth is now hate…the Canaanite ‘jewes’ have made sure of that…
Nice to see the UNGA is a lot less corrupt than ZOG USA.
Is the Senate going to pass that Semite thing. Well, they probably all think it’s self defence so most probably will.
If America stopped funding the UN, the rest could tell America to get lost. UN far better off without them.
we in the UK need to do more to support hamas
they are fighting the war for all people
including us
god be with them
we can help by burning down the synagogues in the UK
Anytime there is the least bit of blowback against Israel, the Jews want the offender to be penalized & punished in some way, for not obeying the desires of Jewry. If Jewry could, they would kill millions. If this Mad Dog had the power, many of us would be dead & the world ruled by Jewry. Thank goodness for Russia, China, Iran and a whole bunch of others who’ve woken up and cut the west loose and will destroy the west if they go too far sideways, under the direction of their Jew Masters.
The US has shamed itself deeply for supporting this scum of the earth. Jew-owned Britain will get Nuked first!
Again, the west is ruled by Rothschild Jewry, plain & simple. Our politicians are traitorous Agents for Rothschild Jewry. It’s disgusting. Will the American Goyim ever wake up? When Jewry gets us Nuked, Americans will be surprised and won’t know why or how it happened.
And it won’t matter.
Marco Sieira–that would be walking into a trap: they always play good cop-bad cop and get you to kill your own people. Russia is a country because it beat the Mongols, but now it is directed against (what were) White countries
Sure the Palestinian wogs need their own autonomous State (not that I care), but more importantly, so do Whites. So when is the UN going to entertain the idea or vote on establishing a white monoracial State?? Never. For there is no racial future for whites on this planet existing in multiracial societies/states except diminution, mongrelism & extinction (Whiteocide).
marco still can’t figure out that BRICS is also ruled by Jews. 10 to 1 marco is a commie
And now, I just heard; the Crypto-Jew Trump is considering Nicki Haley as VP??? I gagged. I’d rather have Kamala!
If he’s elected, he’ll have the same scum he had around him the first time around, when he did nothing but serve Israel & push the “covid” Jabs! Get off the Trump wagon, it’s headed for a cliff. We’ll get Nuked under that fool too. Doesn’t matter who the sock puppet is.
Maybe everyone should boycott the election; wouldn’t it be great if they had an election for the next Zionist shill “president” and nobody voted?
The author mentioned the “American Century” (he clearly misspelled Americunt) is in its death throes and he also mentioned it will be the fall of “Washington’s self-serving edicts.” But Washingstein doesn’t really have “self-serving interests” other job preservation at any and all costs and their bouts of auto-erotic asphyxiation masturbation…which we all wish would go to it’s suffocating completion, and I sure don’t mean the orgasm…the “interests” Washingstein serves are not really their own, and certainly not those of the American citizens, but, first and foremost, the cartel scum serve the interests of Jewry in their continued satanic frenzy of robbery, rape, murder, degradation and destruction. The Americunt federal cartel members are nothing but agents of treachery and treason, and fully deserve to be chased through the streets and slaughtered.
America was doomed to be the perpetually sodomized rape slave Jewnited States in 1913 upon the illicit and illegal passage of the criminally insane Federal Reserve Act. Americunts then fought for the wrong f*cking side in the “world wars”, too dangerously stupid to have a clue they were fighting for their own destruction.
Then legions of dumb-f*ck imbeciles and budding psychopaths enlisted in droves when a handful of treasonous Americunts and a bunch of demonic kikes blew up the World Trade Centers, 2 planes yet 3 giant buildings collapsing into their own footprints, and sent a missile screaming into the Pentagram, cohencidentally enough into the very offices where an audit was being conducted to try to locate the “missing” 3 TRILLION dollars traitor Rumsfeld announced the very day prior to 9/11.
Washngstein D(egenerate)C(riminals) should be bursting at the seams with the corpses of traitors danging with their pants down to their ankles and nooses cinched tightly around their necks from tree branches, streetlight posts, highway overpasses, and bridges all over that open sewer of a city.
At the end of the day, Biden and Trump don’t matter. They’re here today but will be gone tomorrow. On the other hand, it is a truly saddening spectacle to witness the demise of a once-great country, bastion of liberty, home of the brave, as it becomes a ragged and threadbare scarecrow of its former glorious self, crippled with a thirty-five trillion dollar millstone round its neck and rotting with criminality, despair and a truly horrendous nightmare of opioid addiction. To lose its moral compass and international reputation for the sake of Netanyahu’s preservation is the final, brutal insult for the USA. Farewell, fair Camelot that you once were.
Some very good comments here. The Mongols from Khazakhstan have got what they want, for now. All the best young men who lost their lives in two world wars would never believe who they were really fighting for.
@MARCO SIEIRA
I would plead for an absolute vote boycot .
but in this case TPTB would give voteright
to the illegale invaders . they will do it
probably anyway .
The following article with bluntness sums up the US Empire precisely. https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/12/free-the-world/
This includes the Zionist Christians, who blindly follow after the harlot, the Zionist teachings of the Scofield Commentary notes in a special version of the Oxford King James Bible, a Protestant seminary staple for the past 100 years.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it. Ezekiel 16:49-50 (Jewisih Publication Society)
”Israel” should never have been created. It is just that simple – and now just that difficult!
Regarding Marco Sierra…..You do realize Halley could be an Indian Jew….with the complexion of a Mediterranean inhabitant.????
It makes sense if Trumpstein DOES appoint her……they will be wanting to recruit India into their third world war….this MAY be connected to the Billionaire Sunak currently appointed as PM of Britain.
Sunak /MAY be a crypto jew ditto Halleys-Comet…..you would have to be a local to figure that out.