If you listened closely — amid ongoing reports of Donald Trump’s legal victories, setbacks and increasing wealth — you may have heard that a cease-fire resolution passed a United Nations Security Council vote earlier this week.
It’s a good thing whenever meaningful steps are taken to keep civilians from getting killed.
But don’t confuse a cease-fire resolution in the UN with an actual cease-fire.
How did this resolution come about? By the United States abstaining from voting on the resolution.
In other words, we weren’t particularly for it, but we didn’t veto it as we’ve done before while providing diplomatic cover for Israel. (And administration officials are quick to point out that the cease-fire resolution is “non-binding.”)
How’s that for being a world leader and beacon of peace?
Even still, Netanyahu was irate the U.S. didn’t do his veto-bidding this time around — and the Biden administration is kinda’ sorta’ taking a tougher stance toward Israel’s continued bombardment of civilians.
The right-wing prime minister shouldn’t be too upset, though.
As of now, nothing has been done to slow the torrent of U.S.-supplied weaponry that has been raining down on Gaza for months.
Joe Biden’s tactic of strong public support for Netanyahu and Israel, while taking a tougher line behind the scenes, appears to be doing nothing but adding to the current death toll of 32,000 Palestinians.
(And, yes, this war was sparked by the terror attack on October 7 when Hamas took 253 people hostage and killed 1200 by Israeli government estimates.)
The United States has to take more of a stand against the Israeli policy that is clearly to wipe Gaza off the map.
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