US Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood raises his hand during a Security Council session on Israel’s war on Gaza, New York City, December 8, 2023 (Charly Triballeau/AFP)
EA on International Media: Israel’s “Open-Ended” War v. Hamas and Gaza’s Civilians
UPDATE 1914 GMT:
I rejoined Times Radio on Saturday afternoon for a longer analysis, hosted by Alexis Conran.
It is not the case, as Israel’s propaganda claims, that the UN has given Hamas a free pass.
Rather, after the 7-day “humanitarian pause” earlier this month, the Israeli War Cabinet decided to carry out its offensive all the way across Gaza, including the bombing to support that offensive.
A ceasefire would stop them from trying to “destroy Hamas”.
UPDATE 1514 GMT:
I spoke further with India’s WION News about the effective US support for Israel’s war in Gaza, through the American veto of a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire.
The US and most of the international community for weeks tried to keep the Israelis from pursuing a ground offensive and all-out bombing.
But when at the end of the day the Israeli War Cabinet decided to go all-in, the US gave up any leverage by vetoing the UN resolution — and, more importantly, by not cutting off military aid.
ORIGINAL ENTRY: I joined Times Radio on Friday night to discuss the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Hamas and Gaza’s civilians.
Of the 15 Security Council members, 13 — including France — supported the UAE-drafted resolution. The UK abstained.
Listen to Discussion from 6:31
I explain why the US is no longer trying to check Israel’s “open-ended” war. Specifically, I look at the gap between the US rhetoric calling on Israel to limit harm to civilians, and the reality of Washington supplying to the Israelis more than 15,000 bombs — more than 10,000 of them unguided — and more than 50,000 shells, with President Joe Biden announcing on Friday that the US will deliver another 45,000 for tanks.
Your reports relies on evidence which is unreliable and does not support justification for an investigation war crimes. Israel is one of the most moralistic army’s in the world and also contacts civilians by phone and letter dropping telling them to move out of the area. Why don’t you tell readers that Hamas prevents them from moving and continues to use them as civilian shields. Israel it takes no account of the reality that she is surrounded by terrorist organisations supported by Iran whose sole aim is to destroy the land of Israel. There should be no Jews in the Middle East. It makes no mention of the history around Gaza and how Israel withdrew in the hope that Gaza’s would take advantage of the amazing infrastructure of buildings schools hospitals desert land which had been fertilised by Jewish people. Instead they spent twenty years building the huge terror network spending billions of dollars which should have gone to the Palestinians, The UN is anti-Israel, it is dominated by predominantly Moslem countries/countries will large Moslem populations. It is laughable that you use their resolutions to support your report.
U.S increasingly isolated over Israel-Hamas conflict: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/12/16/biden-netanyahu-israel-support-gaza/
US faces isolation for aiding and abetting Gaza genocide, defying world opinion: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/12/13/716303/us-faces-isolation-aiding-abetting-gaza-genocide-defying-world-opinion
“Washington’s support for Israel amid the Gaza war has turned global opinion increasingly against Americans, according to experts. Across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, people have been mobilizing against both the Zionist regime and the United States, holding protests in front of their embassies.”
Biden has lost the support of Muslim voters in the United States: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/03/muslim-leaders-swing-states-abandon-biden-campaign
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Isolated Internationally on Gaza, Biden Delivers Rebuke to Netanyahu: https://www.voanews.com/a/isolated-internationally-on-gaza-biden-delivers-rebuke-to-netanyahu-/7396199.html
The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted for a ceasefire: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67699508