We’re getting reports that the UN Security Council vote on the draft resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza will be delayed.

The 15-member body had been due to vote on the resolution on Friday morning in New York but Reuters cited diplomats as saying that it had now been postponed until 5:30pm local time (22:30 GMT).

The council is still due to meet and be addressed by the UN chief about the situation in Gaza at 15:00 GMT.

Cool, thank you for the information.
Hopefully the states have learned a lesson to sent the mail-ballot early, and receive them in time to finish counting before Californians decide to go asleep. :)

Pretty much this.  The ease of voting.  You know in big cities you could be in line for hours waiting for your chance to vote.  Mail in voting made that situation way easier and thus made participation so much easier.  Why do you believe the GOP wants to remove mail in voting.  It has nothing to do with fraud because there are many states that have been doing mail in voting for decades.  Its funny because a lot of the places where the GOP even approved mail in voting for their primary suddenly decided its way to compromised after the general election.

See the GOP knows that most of their constituents are in smaller cities and towns where voting only takes about 30 mins at best.  You only have to look at the maps of places where GOP constituents live to see that.  In bigger cities they usually vote Dems but also they are the places where they have reduced polling places in order to increase the wait time for voting hoping it will deter a lot of voters.

The reason the math does not work is because during 2020, it was very easy for everyone to vote and as a few GOP have even come out and made statements on it, that is not what they want.

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."

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

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/joe-biden-young-influencer-vote-trouble-1234877107/

Influencers Boosted Biden in 2020. Now Some Are Turning on Him

In 2020, campaigning at the height of the global pandemic, the Biden campaign leaned heavily on influencers to reach young voters. Republican rivals called it a cop out — they said Biden was “hiding in his basement” — but it was hard to argue with the results of that social media-intensive strategy: Biden won voters under the age of 29 by a 26-point margin.

In 2024, the Biden campaign is doubling down, with plans to add even more than the roughly two dozen staffers who worked on the campaign’s influencer program in 2020. But this time around, there are real questions about whether that strategy will work: handpicked influencers that have been on the receiving end of overtures from the administration are noticing increased criticism of Joe Biden among their followers — particularly as it relates to the president’s handling of the crisis in Gaza — and some influencers courted by the White House are strongly considering backing alternative candidates in 2024. 

George Lee Jr., who has 2.4 million followers as The Conscious Lee on TikTok, was invited to a State of the Union watch party at the White House last year. “It was a lovely experience — I’m a first generation college student from a small town in Texas, so the fact that I was able to get invited and have my work be recognized on such a platform was definitely good.” He spoke with Joe Biden, and even asked Jill Biden to dance. 

But the invite didn’t buy enough goodwill to guarantee his support next November. “I would imagine I probably will never get invited again — especially with the way I’ve been so unapologetic with this Palestinian genocide that’s happening. Joe Biden is really shooting himself in the foot,” Lee tells Rolling Stone. “When we start talking about the lesser of two evils, a lot of my followers — all 3 million of them — are literally asking the question, like, ‘Damn, so the lesser of the two evils is the one that is supporting genocide? Noted, noted, noted.’”

“How I talk to my followers about it is like — and excuse my language, I’m gonna cuss — ‘Goddamn, Biden. Your weak ass is gonna rally the entire of America to be against right-wing governments? Meanwhile, you are being unrelentless, unconditional in giving support to a right-wing government?’ That’s funny.”

Lee says he would never sit an election out — “Shit, my life is impacted by policy. I’m gonna be voting” — but Joe Biden has not locked his vote in for 2024. He’s seriously considering throwing his support behind the academic and activist Cornel West, who is running an independent bid. “He’s very critical of American imperialism,” Lee says.

Polls, of course, have started to pick up on that sentiment: The latest New York Times/Siena College poll showed Biden leading Trump among registered voters under the age of 30 by a single percentage point. Surveys generally show younger voters disapprove of the way that the president is responding to the war between Israel and Hamas at a higher rate than older voters. (Not all polls agree, though: one recent YouGov survey found support for Biden’s handling of the was was higher among 18-to-29 year olds than any other age group.)

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/12/08/americans-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/

Working to keep people divided enough...

At least the younger generation is better informed


The fuck do people want that think it's not going far enough???

Curious questions: lets say you think they are going too far. What could Israel to do take it down a couple notches?

If they aren't going far enough what could they do to go farther?

I'm asking cause I don't know enough of the facts of what happening exactly. So I do appreciate your effort to explain your thoughts to these two questions. :)

Insane man it's like they want to spread hate and wars, killing 11,000 children in 2 months is not enough. This is a genocide on defenseless woman and children. 

Middling middling. 

Abstain? why abstain? can't you let the USA take the heat? how stupid do you have to be to abstain? who are you representing? 

How childish, go play GTA if this brings you any joy. Fucking apes. 

What's happening exactly is Israel relaxed all restraints and is using AI to bomb anything that even has a hint it might be tied to Hamas.
https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

Which is a lot of course since Hamas is the entire government. It's the equivalent of attacking the US government by bombing the homes of US soldiers and their family, all US infrastructure, hospitals, schools, universities, libraries, museums, shelters, fuel depots, water sanitation, food supplies, bakeries, internet infrastructure.
In addition Israel has also laid complete siege on Gaza, preventing water, electricity, fuel, medication and food from coming in (or in very minimal quantities now, about 10% of what's needed to survive, through one entry point which can't reach most of Gaza due to bombing and most major roads having been destroyed) razing farmland, basically making it impossible for civilized life to exist in Gaza.
Hospitals and aid can't operate anymore in Gaza. Families bombed in their homes are trapped under the rubble with no way to rescue them or retrieve the bodies. There is no fuel to operate rescue machinery. Pregnant women have no where to go to give birth, hospitals are either bombed or out of service. No electricity nor medical supplies left. Doctors have to perform amputations on children without any anesthesia nor the correct medical tools and have to watch children die from pain, shock and blood loss.
In some places 500 people have to share 1 toilet while sewage pumps aren't working anyway. Disease outbreaks are getting worse, due to overcrowded shelters (1.8 million people chased out of their homes with nowhere to go) lack of sanitation, lack of water, malnutrition, hypothermia due to lack of clothes, blankets.

There are endless ways Israel could take it down a lot of notches. Unrestricted aid access through multiple entry points. Respect UNWRA shelters, stop bombing shelters, stop targeting ambulances, stop bombing/shelling hospitals and schools where many refugees are sheltering. Allow water, food, fuel and electricity back into Gaza, restore basic needs for survival. Protect civilians. (That's all required from an occupying force by law, respect international laws)

It has gone so far already that a complete ceasefire is desperately needed now or many more people will start dying from the medieval like siege on Gaza. And where are the humanitarian pauses?

Here is life for the 'lucky' ones that still have a place to stay inside an UNWRA facility


To go farther? Simply extending the bombing campaign while preventing even the minimum amount of aid getting in is taking it further day after day. But there are also voices to wipe out everything and drive the people into the Sinai desert in Egypt. Leave or die.

The West has been complicit in the oppression and occupation for decades. Stories like this don't gain any traction in Western media

Illegal detention (admistrative detention and military courts for civilians and children in the West Bank and East Jerusalem) has been going on for decades.
https://www.btselem.org/statistics/detainees_and_prisoners
That's just the numbers up to September. Since Oct 7 thousands more have been put in jail without any access to representation, nor even getting charged, simply put under administrative detention for indefinite length of time. Or put before military 'justice' courts (only for Palestinians, apartheid regime) with a 99% conviction rate.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/02/1216715999/how-israels-judicial-system-handles-the-estimated-7000-palestinians-in-its-priso
In total, an estimated 7,000 Palestinians are in prison, including many minors and activists. Nearly 2,900 of those detainees are held without trial.

Just speaking out against the occupation or having any pro Palestine materials in your web browser can get you arrested, your home raided at night and dragged off to jail. There are multiple daily raids occurring in the west bank. More people were arrested during the ceasefire than released as part of the hostage negotiations.

That amidst the ongoing settler violence which has further escalated since Oct 7
https://www.btselem.org/topic/settler_violence
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israeli-settler-attacks-on-west-bank-palestinians-have-escalated-since-oct-7-un-says
Israel arms the settlers and provides military cover for them, shooting and arresting Palestinians that resist.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1212836719/ex-idf-soldier-calls-for-international-intervention-to-stop-settler-violence
You don't have the order to stop violent settlers. What you do have orders for is to protect the Jewish community. We don't have orders as soldiers to protect everyone in the area. We have hundreds of testifiers. None of them said that they received an order to detain a settler attacking a Palestinian, even though it's the most simple order.

And it goes on and on, has been since 1967, or rather started in 1948 with the Nakba.

If you want to learn more, listen to Chris Hedges


The USA is losing all its goodwill it had slowly build up in the Middle East, yet still think they can push 'normalization' between Arab countries and Israel. Meanwhile sending more troops to try to contain the conflict from spreading further into surrounding countries.

As long as there is still oil and gas in the ground, the middle east will stay a battleground :/ The USA needs Israel to keep the Arab countries under control and has been doing so by giving Israel unrestricted military aid. (Basically paying itself through Israel to send avg $3.9 billion in weapons a year to Israel under the title of aid) Right wing Zionist have been taking this as an opportunity to keep oppressing Palestinians while slowly taking more and more land and sustaining the apartheid regime, against international law.
In addition to financial and military aid, the United States also provides large-scale political support to Israel, having used its United Nations Security Council veto power 42 times against resolutions condemning Israel, out of a total 83 times in which its veto has ever been used.

This is one of the latest expulsions back on the table (never left, but being pushed through again)

Cutting East Jerusalem further off from the West Bank. Further fragmenting the little land Palestinians have left.
This particular expulsion has been on the agenda for years, now pushed through under the cloak of war.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/04/israel-un-experts-urge-international-community-end-forced-displacement-and
“Israel’s transfer of its own population into the occupied territory confirms a deliberate intention to colonise the territory it occupies – a practice strictly prohibited by international humanitarian law,” they said, reiterating their past statement. “It amounts to a prima facie war crime.”



What we're seeing now is the sped up endgame in a 75 year colonial war to settle all of Palestine.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-gaza-genocide-hamas-colonial-war
This is not about Hamas. It's a 75-year colonial war
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is inseparable from the racialised structures of Zionism, which receives unbridled support from Europe and the US


The ICC has been investigating war crimes by Israel for the past 9 years, yet keeps stalling.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/palestine