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US vetoes UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire (www.semafor.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The U.S. vetoed a UN Security Council resolution Friday calling for a ceasefire to the fighting in Gaza.

The U.S. and Israel have opposed calls for a ceasefire, saying it would strengthen Hamas.

The vote was delayed for several hours over worries the U.S. would veto it. Diplomats from several Arab nations met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to try to convince the U.S. to abstain from voting.

As a permanent member of the council, the U.S. has veto power, and had signaled it planned to block the resolution. The U.K. abstained from the vote, while the 13 other members of the council voted for it.

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[–] meco03211 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does a "no" vote by the US automatically veto it? Or did they have to take an additional action? If the vote alone didn't veto it, that's the perfect place to hedge your bets. Vote no, then don't veto it. You can claim both sides then to appease everyone.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No by the US (or China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom) means veto.

[–] meco03211 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Well that's dumb. But rules are rules.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

aww shucks we have to allow genocide its the rules

[–] meco03211 13 points 11 months ago

It was more meant that they couldn't vote no then not veto. That being the case they should have at least abstained like the UK.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's to prevent nuclear war. If everyone voted to invade or harshly punish a powerful country they could respond.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That is the explanation I was given, but these days I think that’s more of a rationalization than an explanation. Closer to the truth, I think, is that those are the countries that came out of WWII the victors, and so they wrote the rules.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Much like the US Constitution, the structure of the UN is built for a world that no longer exists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

oh so the only ones who ever used nukes now get to say what everyone should do with theirs?