US Abstention on UNSC Ceasefire Vote Triggers Major Crisis

Mar 25, 2024 3:10 pm | News, Ticker, Virtual Jerusalem

In the wake of Biden betrayal, Netanyahu cancels trip of senior Israeli officials “summoned” to Washington

The United States has abstained on a United Nations Security Council Resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” to mark the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, which has another two weeks to run.

The remaining 14 council members vote for the resolution, so that it has passed.

Washington had been previously averse to the word “ceasefire” in relation to in the nearly six-month-old war in the Gaza Strip and had used its veto power to block previous resolutions. While the current resolution calls for the release of hostages, it doesn’t make their release a condition for ending the conflict immediately. The US intersectional representative said that the US did not vote with the resolution because it did not condemn Hamas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously warned that a refusal by the US to veto the UNSC resolution would cause him to cancel the visit of National Security Council head Tzachi Hanegbi and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer to the US later on Monday. After the vote, he confirmed that the delegation would not be sent.

The visit was the result of an American “summons” to hear alternatives to Israel’s planned and approved operation into Rafah, essential for defeating Hamas in the Gaza war and for retrieving the more than 100 Israeli hostages.

6 Comments

  1. Paul Atlas

    Jews for decades have voted Democratic. This is what it has brought them. As a Jew, I am appalled that they continue
    to do so under the circumstances we now live. Get the cattle cars ready, they are coming!!

  2. Sumner ston

    I just got off the phone with the offices of my two Democratic Senators and my Democratic Congressman and expressed my OUTRAGE with President Biden’s BETRAYAL of Israel with.this Security Council abstention and indicated that I have been a lifelong Democrat and voted for Biden in 2020 but that I intended to ACTIVELY do EVERYTHING I can to ensure that Biden and Harris are ONE-TERM HAS BEENS and that the Democrats LOSE THEIR SENATE MAJORITY and LOSE EVEN MORE SEATS IN THE HOUSE.
    ANOTHER REASON NOT TO RE-ELECT BIDEN AND HIS BIDDY (as if one more was necessary)!
    VOTING FOR BIDEN IS FORBIDDEN ☠️
    (and that goes DOUBLE for CAMEL-LA (oops, KAMALA-LA LAND!). IS SHE ONE HUMP OR TWO🐪🐫 ?

  3. Sandra L SMITH

    Since when does the US have the authority to “summons” officials from another sovereign nation??? What gives”Biden” the notion he has any such authority???

  4. Roland

    …and the Democrats continue the glorious foreign policy of Obama…

  5. John garrison

    The Government of the United States namely the Biden Administration has made the final full measure in betraying our closest ally in the Moddle East. President Harry S. Truman must be spinning in his grave right now, being the first to diplomatically recognize Israel when the very same United Nations announced the creation of that Jewish State.

    What a stab in the back, Biden might as well held the very knife in his hand.

  6. Andrew Aarons

    The USA can no longer be considered a trusted ally.

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