Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US used its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire.

Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US became the only member to use its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire resolution, a move welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The UN chief says he will keep pushing for peace.

  • @SCBEnglish
    -1•10 months ago

    I’m not educated enough to say which is a “worse” violation of the principles the UN stands for, but I’ll go out on a limb and say nothing will change this time, either.

    Russia wants to annex a country. Israel is fighting a terrorist group. Russia is worse.

    • @[email protected]English
      14•10 months ago

      Russia wants to annex a country. Israel is fighting a terrorist group.

      Isreal has been slowly annexing bits of Palestine for decades. Those terrorists are the latest reaction to that.

      Not that their violence against Israel is a good thing - far from it, but it’s also not surprising.

      • @SCBEnglish
        -12•10 months ago

        Isreal has been slowly annexing bits of Palestine for decades.

        They literally haven’t. Gaza’s borders are unchanged.

          • @kerrigan778English
            -10•10 months ago

            I’d call them not in Gaza…

          • @SCBEnglish
            -10•10 months ago

            Israeli settlements are literally built on Israeli land. East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights were won in the Six Day War.

            • @sfgifzEnglish
              6•10 months ago

              So… If Russia “wins” parts of Ukrainian territory, it’s all valid?

              • @aidanEnglish
                1•10 months ago

                The 6 Day War was a bit more complicated than a blatant land grab

              • @SCBEnglish
                0•10 months ago

                In a realpolitik sense, yeah probably. That’s why Ukraine needs to win. Nothing is going to happen to Russia if they crush Ukraine underfoot. Do you really believe something is?

                More to the point, though, the Six Day War was a defensive war by Israel in which other countries willfully abdicated territory for Israel’s security purposes. It was not a war of annexation, so the two are completely different things.

            • Flying SquidMEnglish
              2•10 months ago

              Note these settlements are on the other side of the Israeli border after the 1967 war, making a large percentage of the West Bank de facto Israeli territory. And it continues to shrink.