Vote on a ceasefire should be soon, but might not be held at all since it's already 99% certain US will veto it. The only question is, will it be put to a vote to show the world it's the US keeping this war going.
Speaking at the Security Council, US envoy Robert Wood referred to the October 7 Hamas attacks as the “worst attack on our people” in decades.
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara said the statement underscores that Israel is treated as the “51st state” of the US.
“The Biden administration the past two months have been parroting the Israeli lines, sometimes you would think they were basically taking exactly the same words phrases and sentences and using them as their own,” he said.
The statement by Wood, he said, is “actually echoing the thing that people have been saying for the last two months: You don’t know if it’s America speaking for America or it’s America speaking for Israel.”
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi reiterated his call for the passage of a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza "because the message is, if they do not, it is simply an endorsement of what Israel is doing."
"And what Israel has been doing is simply killing people, destroying their livelihoods, denying them food and water, jeopardizing the security of the whole region, undermining the interest of its own allies in our part of the world, hurting its own people by contributing to an environment in which it will deny its own people to live in peace," Safadi told CNN's Jim Sciutto on "CNN Newsroom" on Max.
Safadi said Israel has not been adhering to the red lines that the US has described for post-war Gaza.
Asked if the US is losing its credibility among its Arab allies, Safadi said, "all of us are losing our credibility."
"We are losing credibility in front of our people because our own people are looking at us and saying, 'OK, you're demanding that Israel stop. It's not. The whole international community has failed to act in any meaningful manner to stop the massacre,'" he said. "So, everybody's losing credibility. Moderation is losing credibility. The camp of peace is losing credibility. So, that is a danger with which we were going to have to reckon at some point or the other."
The UAE’s envoy to the UN Mohamed Abushahab said the draft resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza “echoes the call for humanitarian ceasefire made by world leaders, humanitarian organizations, and most recently by the secretary-general” of the UN.
“It is brief, it is simple. It is crucial,” he said.
CNN is so transparent, while other news networks report
"The council is expected to vote on a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza."
CNN instead quickly throws out
Dozens of suspects who were arrested by Israel's forces in Gaza over the past 48 hours have been taken to Israel for interrogation, IDF spokesperson rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Friday.
“We eliminate many terrorists, and gradually see more terrorists who surrender during the battles, and turn themselves over to our forces," Hagari said during his daily briefing. Over the past 48 hours we have arrested over 200 suspects, dozens of them were taken to Israeli territory for interrogation."
Hagari said the Israeli military is in an “intensive stage” of its ground operation in Gaza.
“Our troops are operating in the hearts of Hamas’s centers of gravity, in the northern and southern Gaza Strip simultaneously […] We conduct fierce fights against Hamas terrorists who hide underground and come up due to the activity of our forces,” he added.
Softening the stage for
US vetoes Security Council resolution calling for ceasefire
The ceasefire resolution has been vetoed by US envoy to the UN Robert Wood.
The US is supporting terrorism more than ever, legitimizing genocide, ethnic cleansing, countless war crimes.
Biden, Blinken, Kerby, Robert Wood, all war criminals that should be tried in The Hague next to Netanyahoo and Yayha Sinwar.
There is no humanity left in US politics.
After vetoing the draft resolution, US envoy to the UN Robert Wood said the process had been “rushed” and “lacked appropriate consultation”.
“Unfortunately, nearly all of our recommendations were ignored,” he said. “The result of this rush process was an imbalanced resolution that was divorced from reality, that would not move the needle forward on the ground in any concrete way”.
He said the authors “declined to include language condemning Hamas horrific terrorist attack on Israel on October 7”.
Can't even make up a new excuse, still a war on words while the genocide rages on.
The UK abstained btw (rest voted in favor), bunch of cowards.
CNN hasn't brought the news yet, still trying to phrase it with a positive spin I guess.
Ahh next update from CNN
Israeli defense minister claims he sees signs Hamas is at breaking point in Gaza
From Tamar Michaelis and CNN's Sugam Pokharel
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed Friday that he sees signs Hamas is at a breaking point in Gaza.
“Whoever thought a month ago that (they) would extinguish our lights, it is proven day after day what the results are. In the State of Israel, there is light, and in Gaza, there is darkness. This will continue to intensify. I see the signs that indicate (Hamas is) beginning to break inside Gaza,” he told Israeli soldiers during a Hanukkah candle lighting event.
He didn’t elaborate further and didn’t provide any evidence to support his assessment.
The defense minister’s remark comes as the Israeli forces intensify attacks in the northern and southern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military said earlier Friday that approximately 450 targets in Gaza were struck over the past day – the highest number reported since the end of the truce a week ago.
WTF just ignoring the veto? First more Israeli propaganda.
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