11mo ago

US vetoes widely supported resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine

apnews.com US vetoes widely supported resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine

The United States has vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine.

The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. U.S. allies France, Japan and South Korea supported the resolution.

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11mo ago

US vetoes widely supported resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine

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11mo ago

US vetoes widely supported UN resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine

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World's largest settler colony votes in favour of colonialism. More at 11
- For some reason this comment helped me relax a bit about this. Wild how slow progress is
  
  For some reason
  This is the reason:
  "You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying!
  
  Very insightful. I'll be using this in the future. Thanks!
- Somewhat more surprising is the historical king of colonizers didn't vote in favor of it.
  
  The US supplanted the UK as the de facto leader of the imperial core after WW2, and specially after the Suez crisis.
  The UK can't afford to antagonize the world by directly voting against international will anymore like the US now can, hence them (and Switzerland) only abstaining.
  
  The British people aren't that pro-imperialist in general anymore and, while the current government very much IS, I'm pretty sure that it's almost election time, so they have to be careful about being too honest about it right now..