/ world today news/ The recent vote in the UN Security Council on December 8 on the resolution proposed once again by the initiative group of Arab countries for a complete and immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip gave extremely discouraging results for the United States. 13 members of the Security Council, including non-permanent ones, voted for it.
Among them were such US allies as France and Japan. Even “faithful” Great Britain this time found it necessary only to refrain.
Washington vetoed the proposed project all by itself. And the more the tragedy unfolds in Gaza, whose northern part is already practically uninhabited, the more categorically the people of the region point to the US as equally responsible for what is happening along with Israel.
According to Egypt’s Al-Ahram, America can reverse this downward spiral by saying there will be no more offensive military equipment for Israel or US support in international forums without a permanent cease-fire, action to disarm the militant settlers and halt any expansion of settlements.
Instead of reminders of the “rules of war” or demands to limit civilian casualties, settlement expansion or settler violence.
Then change America’s no at the United Nations to yes and support a Security Council resolution recognizing Palestine as a state, declaring the continued occupation a threat to regional peace and security, and ordering the strengthening of UN peacekeeping forces to peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians is guaranteed.
Otherwise, all attempts by the United States to portray itself as an impartial mediator or “honest broker” in the region only disguise its role as a sophisticated “advocate” in Israeli affairs.
The current vote in the UN Security Council was reportedly postponed for several hours for a meeting of representatives of the Arab-Islamic Ministerial Committee, consisting of Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, Deputy Prime Minister – Jordanian Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan with US Secretary of State Blinken.
Representatives of the commission made a last desperate attempt to “convince” the American side to support the proposed resolution.
Before this conversation, they held a press conference, in which Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, in particular, said: “Our message is consistent and clear – we think it is absolutely necessary to immediately stop hostilities.”
He was clearly trying to influence his hosts, noting that “one of the disturbing facts about this conflict is that ending the conflict and the fighting does not seem to be a top priority for the international community.”
“I certainly hope that our US partners will do more… we certainly believe they can do more,” the Saudi minister added.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told a news conference that if the resolution was not passed, it would give Israel permission to “continue its slaughter.”
“Our priority right now is to stop the war, to stop the killing, to stop the destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure,” he said, adding:
“The message being sent is that Israel is acting above international law … and the world is simply not doing much. We disagree with the United States on its position on the ceasefire.”
“The solution is a ceasefire,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Same Shoukry.
“If the UN Security Council does not pass a resolution that simply touches on humanitarian issues, it will give Israel permission to continue the massacre of civilians in Gaza,” he stressed.
In turn, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and said it was necessary to convene an international peace conference to find a lasting political solution leading to the creation of a Palestinian state.
However, the exhortations expressed and the subsequent heated arguments with Blinken had no effect. The United States again without hesitation voted against the proposed project, against the will of the entire world community.
Then, on December 9, the members of the Arab-Islamic Committee met with Blinken again in Washington to tell him, without any hints and in the most understandable form, what they thought about US policy in the region.
They quite strongly condemned the US veto, which “blocked international calls to the UN Security Council to demand a cease-fire in Gaza” and said that in doing so the US was taking full responsibility for what was happening there.
The ministers reaffirmed their “united opposition to Israeli aggression against Palestinians in Gaza, reiterating the need to end hostilities, protect civilians and lift the siege preventing humanitarian access to the war-torn enclave.”
They also came out strongly against “attempts to push the Palestinians out of Gaza, stressing the need to create a real political climate that will lead to a two-state solution.”
During this conversation, Secretary of State Blinken, with his characteristic mental instability, at first trembled and grimaced in horror, just as he was contorted after Biden said that Xi Jinping was a “dictator” immediately after the conclusion of negotiations with the latter, which were declared successful.
And then the Secretary of State apparently relaxed, apparently feeling that the unpleasant moments were behind him, and rather inappropriately began to smile politely at everyone, as if it were not a human tragedy of gigantic proportions.
Human Rights Watch, backed by the White House, has already said the United States is under the threat of “complicity in war crimes.”
The head of the State Department held a separate meeting with Sadov’s colleague, apparently with the expectation that his position might be more favorable to Washington than that of the other members of the commission.
However, Prince Faisal was as emphatic as the others, expressing disappointment at the Security Council’s failure to “take a strong position” on Gaza, which of course was directed solely at the United States.
“People are losing faith in the arguments for peace in our region, but they are also losing faith in international security systems and the rule of law,” he said. It is even more clear that they are losing confidence above all in America.
Already, the New York Times writes that after the United States single-handedly voted against a UN resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, it found itself diplomatically isolated and under increasing criticism from “a number of governments, human rights groups and humanitarian organizations, who warned of catastrophic consequences for civilians in the war-torn territory’.
Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, which Washington and others see as a potential governing body for post-war Gaza, said the veto was “a mark of shame that will haunt the United States for years.” He called the US “aggressive and unethical”.
Step by step in the Middle East, the United States, through its own actions, is increasingly alienating the Arab and the entire Islamic world. Similar processes affect other regions. The process of weakening American dominance in the world, or, as they like to say in the White House, “leadership”, is accelerating significantly.
Translation: SM
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