The world voted overwhelmingly at the United Nations to demand an end to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory and a withdrawal of all troops and settlers within 12 months.
The General Assembly resolution was based on a July ruling by the top UN legal authority, the International Court of Justice, which stated that “Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful” and that “Israel is under an obligation to bring to an end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible”.
Of the 193 UN member states, 124 (64%) voted in support of the resolution, 14 (7%) voted against it, and 43 (22%) abstained. It was thus officially adopted in the September 18 meeting.
The countries that voted against the resolution, in effect supporting Israel’s illegal occupation, were the United States, Israel, Argentina, Czechia, Hungary, Malawi, Papa New Guinea, and Paraguay, plus the tiny Pacific island nations of Fiji, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Tonga, and Tuvalu.
These small island countries that consistently echo Washington’s unpopular votes in the UN are essentially unofficial US colonies, and mostly use the US dollar or Australian dollar as their currencies. Together, the six have a combined population of just over 1 million people, making them some of the smallest nations on Earth.
Among the large countries that abstained were India, Australia, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ethiopia.
However, in a break with Washington, a few longtime US allies voted in support of the resolution, most notably Japan, as well as France, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain.
Several countries did not vote in the September 18 General Assembly session. These include a few nations that would without a doubt have supported the resolution, such as Venezuela, which lost its voting rights because it cannot pay UN membership fees due to illegal Western sanctions. The US and its European allies have stolen billions of dollars of Venezuelan foreign assets and reserves, and Washington has blocked Venezuela from using the US-controlled financial system.
The resolution was not controversial; it simply called for the implementation of a decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s top legal body.
On July 19, the ICJ issued a historic ruling stating:
– the State of Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful;
– the State of Israel is under an obligation to bring to an end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible;
– the State of Israel is under an obligation to cease immediately all new settlement activities, and to evacuate all settlers from the Occupied Palestinian Territory;
– the State of Israel has the obligation to make reparation for the damage caused to all the natural or legal persons concerned in the Occupied Palestinian Territory;
– all States are under an obligation not to recognize as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by the continued presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
The US government is essentially the only obstacle standing in the way of the implementation of international law, and the recognition of Palestine as a full UN member state.
In May, 143 countries voted in the General Assembly to admit Palestine as a full UN member. At present, it is only an observer state.
This May General Assembly vote came after an April session of the Security Council, in which the US used its veto power to kill a resolution that requested full membership for Palestine.
USA & Israel defy world in vote to make Palestine full UN member
Since war broke out in Gaza in October 2023, Washington has repeatedly vetoed Security Council resolutions that call for peace and a ceasefire.
US President Joe Biden has strongly supported Israel as it has brutally bombed civilians in Gaza, in what UN experts say is a campaign of genocide.
In a press conference in Tel Aviv in October, Biden asserted that “if Israel didn’t exist, we’d have to invent it”, given how strategic the colonial state is for US imperial interests.
US kills 4th UN call for peace in Gaza, helping Israel violate Hague’s genocide ruling
Eric Arthur Blair
2024-09-19 at 18:59
Just when we thought that Israel could not get any more depraved, obscene and abhorrent, even after Israel bombed women and children in tents and bombed all hospitals in Palestine, even after Israel blocked food, water and medicine going into Gaza and created a polio epidemic, the Zionists came up with yet another disgusting TERRORIST act.
Indiscriminate murder and maiming of Lebanese and Syrians. Pagers are most common among hospital workers and the only hospital spared in Beirut was the American hospital – surprise, surprise.
Mossad infiltrated supply chains of pagers and walkie talkies to implant explosives.
Anybody who now buys any electronics from Western or Western stooge regime brands (Japanese etc) are STUPID. Motorola is now suing Israel for $1 billion but their brand is now dead.
As Max Blumenthal said, Israel is a rabid dog off it’s chain, a genocidal terrorist regime utterly lacking in ANY decency. Israel has ZERO legitimacy. Any who argue otherwise are psychopathic promoters of genocide.
There is a struggle between good and evil in the world today and any who support the Israeli and US regimes are EVIL.
https://podbay.fm/p/the-mother-of-all-talk-shows-with-george-galloway-662476/e/1726703461
JonnyJames
2024-09-20 at 10:57
Yes indeed, well put as usual. I would only add that any criticism of Israel is equally, if not more, applicable to the USA/UK and vassals. Although it sounds hyperbolic, the atrocities committed by the US equal any in modern history. US or UK politicos criticizing Russia/USSR, Nazi Germany, communist China etc. is pure hypocrisy
As George Carlin reportedly quipped many years ago: “The Germans lost WWII, but the Nazis won.” I was too young to understand that back then, but now I understand perfectly.
I never tire of listening to Galloway, as you pointed out awhile back: he is likely the best orator in the Angloshpere alive today. I can even do a pretty good impersonation of his accent. (I’m a Yank, mind)
The transparent lies and hypocrisy are staggering, even by today’s low standards. The sad and frustrating bit is that the major so-called political parties in the US and UK all support Genocide and no matter what happens in our sham Elections Inc., the status quo will prevail. The good news is that if they don’t blow up the world first, Israel’s days are numbered, and US hegemony is on its last, desperate legs.
Energieerhaltungssatz
2024-09-20 at 15:52
Quotes during the morning session on January 23, 1946 of the Nuremberg Trials (translated from German):
“In total, the budget of the German news agencies was increased tenfold; they now received 4 million Reichsmark from the Reich instead of 400,000. Hans Fritsche personally selected and hired the editors-in-chief for the Transocean news agency and for the Europa-Presse. Fritsche states that the “guidelines of the Ministry of Propaganda that I had to follow in the process” were the following:
“Enlargement of the imprint of German news abroad at any cost.“
“… dissemination of favourable news about internal construction and peaceful intentions of the National Socialist system.“ “
Transocean news agency… Europa-Presse… sounds unusually familiar, right?
I suspect that at that time actual social structures were desired by the majority of the population, just like today, so they just hijacked those words, e.g. “social”, which people associated with something positive, in order to confuse them and distract from their true intentions and actions, just like with “democracy”, “freedom”, “self-defence”, etc. today.
Eric Arthur Blair
2024-09-21 at 15:24
Mr. energy conservation:
You wrote about the Nazis:
“they just hijacked those words, e.g. “social”, which people associated with something positive, in order to confuse them and distract from their true intentions and actions, just like with “democracy”, “freedom”, “self-defence”, etc. today.”
Orwellian language thoroughly infests the LEMSO* of today.
Extract from Pepe Escobar’s article:
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/this-aint-no-wwiii-this-is-a-war-of-terror/
“Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov – whose Taoist patience seems to be exhausting – added some color on the Big Picture, drawing from English literature:
“George Orwell had a rich imagination and historical foresight. But even he could not imagine what a totalitarian state would look like. He described some of its contours, but failed to penetrate the depths of the totalitarianism that we now see within the framework of the ‘rules-based order.’ I have nothing to add. The current leaders in Washington, who suppress any dissent, have ‘outdone’ him. This is totalitarianism in its purest form.”
Lavrov concluded that “they are historically doomed.” Yet they don’t really have the guts to provoke WWIII. Trademark cowards can only resort to a War OF Terror.
Here are some instances. The SVR – Russian foreign intel – discovered a Kiev plot to stage a Russian missile attack on a hospital or kindergarten on Kiev-controlled territory.”
*LEMSO = Lying Establishment Media Sewer Outlets AKA western mainstream media
Eric Arthur Blair
2024-09-21 at 15:37
My point is that the Western Media have outNazied the Nazis, they have outGoebbeled Goebbels,
The West has become the very Totalitarian monstrosity that Orwell feared and parodied.
Eric Arthur Blair
2024-09-21 at 14:57
The lack of outrage by the LEMSO* (AKA western mainstream media) against the despicable and cowardly terrorism committed by Israel against random Lebanese people (many being Health workers) is itself outrageous. If any country had done such a thing to Israel or the US, the LEMSO would erupt in apoplectic rage. But if Palestinians or Lebanese or Syrians are murdered or maimed, all the LEMSO offer is mealy mouthed weasel words.
Many layers of blowback are to be expected, not least that Taiwanese and Japanese firms whose devices were turned into bombs by Mossad will see their former “ally” Israel in its true light: a damnable despicable saboteur, a foul enemy.
Israelis, the self-chosen Chosen Ones, call themselves the children of God, but their actions prove to the world that they are the execrable Spawn of Satan.
https://podbay.fm/p/the-socialist-program-with-brian-becker/e/1726741800
Jews who oppose Israel (possibly the majority of Jews) are the righteous of the Earth, embraced by all sane, decent humanity.
Zionists are toxic vermin, putting everyone at risk of WW3 which will mean human extinction.
*Lying Establishment Media Sewer Outlets