[Rami Ayari of Al Jazeera reports the UN General Assembly just voted 145-5 to allow “the President of the State of Palestine to deliver his General Debate speech via a pre-recorded statement. … This comes after the US violated the UN Headquarters Agreement and prevented President Abbas from attending High Level Week.]
“With Genocide Confirmed and Gaza City a ‘Lifeless Wasteland,’ US Vetoes Another UN Ceasefire Resolution” reports Common Dreams.
Some are reporting on this as if a US veto ends the matter. It doesn’t.
Former UN official Craig Mokhiber — who recently wrote the piece “How the UN could act today to stop the genocide in Palestine” — stated: “For the sixth time, the US has vetoed a ceasefire in the Gaza genocide, underscoring once again the grave threat to the world posed by the US-Israel axis. The violent, racist, and lawless rampage of the axis is leaving a trail of murder and destruction across Western Asia and the wider world, corrupting governments and trampling human rights across the West, and shredding international law and institutions in its wake. The world must get off its knees, unite, and stop this horror — while they still can.”
See recent IPA news releases: “Israel’s Attack on the UN Charter and How to Stop a Genocide” and “New President of the UNGA Has Openly Backed Israel’s Genocide”
Mokhiber was quoted on a news release on Thursday: “The Security Council is blocked by the complicit US government. But the UNGA has the power to act. Under Uniting for Peace, it can hold Israel accountable and deploy a protection mission to Palestine. In the next few days, we’ll all see whether each UN member state cares enough to act to stop genocide. If they fail to act now, or hide behind toothless resolutions, it may be the UN itself that is buried in the dust of Gaza.”
See more on Uniting for Peace.
Heads of state address the 80th opening of the UN General Assembly beginning on Tuesday.