US veto's resolution on Israel

[PhoenixAsh]

Well...heard the US veto's a Sec Coun resolution that was branding the settlements of Israelies in Palestine territory as illegal.

14 countries voted in favor...the US vetoed....saying that the settelements were illegal but UN interference would obstruct the resumption of peacetalks.

Meanwhile in the real world....the Palestinians say they won't start peacetalks untill the settlements get stopped.

[PhoenixAsh]

this proceeded the sec coun vote:


Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas has rejected Washington's request to withdraw a resolution demanding Israel halt settlement activities.

Abbas on Friday rejected a White House proposal to abandon a UN Security Council vote against Israeli settlement expansion on the occupied Palestinian territories and accept instead a non-binding statement. The non-binding statement would call on Tel Aviv regime to freeze its settlement construction activities, AFP reported.

"There is no change in the Palestinian and Arab (http://www.alarabiya.com/) position about the proposal presented to the UN Security Council condemning Israeli settlement on Palestinian lands," a statement released by Abbas' office on Friday read.

According to a senior Palestinian official, US President Barack Obama had warned Abbas to back off from the Security Council vote on Israeli settlements.

"President Obama threatened on Thursday night to take measures against the Palestinian Authority if it insists on going to the Security Council to condemn Israeli settlement activity, and demand that it be stopped," the official said on condition of anonymity.

He added, "There will be repercussions for Palestinian-American relations if you continue your attempts to go to the Security Council and ignore our requests in this matter, especially as we suggested other alternatives."

American officials have said repeatedly that the Security Council is not the place to hash out the issue of illegal Israeli settlements and a veto to stop an anti-Israeli measure is likely.

Israel has been persistently proceeding with the construction of its settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem).

The United Nation has repeatedly condemned Israel for defying international calls to halt its settlement construction activities.

In October 2010, Oscar Fernandez Taranco, assistant UN secretary general for political affairs, criticized Israel for jeopardizing efforts to resolve the impasse in talks with the Palestinian Authority -- negotiations derailed by Israel's refusal to halt its West Bank settlement expansions.

"We have a brief and crucial window to overcome the current impasse. The UN secretary general continues to believe that if the door to peace closes, it will be very hard to reopen," Taranco told the UN Security Council.

Recently, Human Rights Watch's representative Carroll Bogert criticized Tel Aviv for its "systematic discrimination" against Palestinians "merely because of their race, ethnicity, and national origin" and "depriving them of electricity, water, schools, and access to roads."

"While Israeli settlements flourish, Palestinians under Israeli control live in a time warp -- not just separate, not just unequal, but sometimes even pushed off their lands and out of their homes," Bogert said.

Palestinians view Israel's unrelenting settlement construction activities as a major hurdle smothering their efforts to establish an independent state on the territories Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War.

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http://aljazeera.com/news/articles/34/Abbas-refuses-to-drop-UNSC-vote.html

[Metacomet]

"I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round........."

Seems like an endless excersice. I never understood the point of an organization where one member can over-ride the decisions of the rest.

[freepalestine]

PFLP: US veto is a mercy killing for the last gasps of the Oslo era

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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine described the U.S. veto of the proposed UN Security Council resolution, approved by all other Security Council members, condemning illegal settlements in the West Bank as firing a bullet of mercy to finally end the negotiations, the Oslo process and the so-called "peace process." The death of the Oslo process is a reflection of the complete collapse of any credibility of the Obama administration and its position on democracy, human rights, international law and legitimacy. The U.S. veto was an insulting and obscene demonstration of its political and ethical bankruptcy, and its complete complicity with the Netanyahu regime's extremism, settlement-mania and racism.

The Front, in a statement issued on February 19, 2011, said that this behavior and position from the U.S. should make it clear to all that the PLO leadership and the Oslo group's reliance on the promises and care of the U.S. and its "solutions" and "negotiations" must end forever. This requires an official announcement of the failure of this path and an honest discussion among our people and its political and social forces, and engaging in a full and comprhensive review of the process and path of Oslo, and the policies, products, and political, legal, economic and security commitments built upon its rotten foundation.

The PFLP demanded that the leadership of the Authority and the PLO bear their national, political and moral responsibilities to heed the voice of the people of Palestine, the voice of the homeland, and the voice of the youth and all Palestinian forces to move to call for a comprehensive national dialogue based on the Cairo Declaration of 2005, including the secretaries-general of the National and Islamic forces, the president of the Palestinian National Council and members of the Executive Committee. This national dialogue must lay new rules and foundations for a political and organizational pathway out of the morass of futile negotiations and instead develop an alternative political strategy, based on the election of a unified Palestinian leadership on a democratic basis, and re-building the PLO on the basis of the Cairo Declaration, including all Palestinian forces, as the sole legitimate representative of our people.

The Front warned of the dangers of returning to the cycle of illusions and "assurances," and noted that so-called alternative policies are reckless and worthless unless linked to an alternative strategy and a political and national consensus on building a political mechanism and democratic national resistance. Any talk about the so-called peace process at this time is self-deception and then an attempt to deceive the Palestinian people, and should be scrapped.

It called for a response to the major developments and democratic transformations taking place and respond to events, calling for Palestinian National Council elections and saying that there should be no excuses for not holding elections for the PNC because of the so-called prevention of elections for the PNC by Arab countries, while moving forward to hold "elections" under the control of the occupation.

The Front concluded by calling upon all Palestinian organizations and entities to refuse to trade rights and dignity for funding and international assistance, saying that Palestinians will refuse to barter their freedom for bread of humiliation and shame.


http://pflp.ps/english/?q=pflp-us-veto-mercy-killing-last-gasps-oslo-era

[MarxistMan]

LONG LIVE THE PALESTINES AND MUSLIMS !!!!


The U.S. vetoes these resolutions, despite all their honeyed words and protestations, because the "end game" of both Israel and the U.S. are mutually interdependent. The U.S. knows, a dominant, strong, vassal Israel , is their only chance of ultimately subjugating and dominating all Arab and Muslim Nations in and around the middle east; Israel knows that all hope for their future survival, and their obvious goal of ultimately creating a "greater Israel", and for the total elimination from that area of all Arabs and Palestinians, all hope for that depends upon the continuation of economic and military support from the U.S.

All of this has been written and spoken of in all the sources and annals over the recent sixty years. The U.S. has, otherwise inexplicably, endowed Israel with untold military and financial support, and most importantly, suckered the great assembly of the United Nations into believing they sided with the aspirations and "rights" of the Palestinian Arabs, and has prevented any and all retributions of the U.N. from being visited upon Israel.

The most egregious of Israeli crimes clearly amount to ethnic cleansing delivered through a process of criminal economic subjugation, the continuing theft of Palestinian lands and there is no clearer statement than that involving new settlements and populating them with Jews only.In view of all this, hands up from all those who still think Israel will ever give back these stolen lands?. They should be made to give them back, and it is for the United Nations to do it, by military force if necessary, after all they have been the ultimate driver of all the Palestine problems, because they stood blindly and culpably by, and allowed it to happen.

Let all the Arab and Muslim Nations rise up and take back their lost pride and self respect; this is the right time to call the bluff and bluster of the U.S., their power, strength and standing in the World, is a thing of the past, the U.S. cannot win against the mass movement of the people. Especially if the people seize the present opportunity. Count the votes and opinions of The Security Council. Regards,



Well...heard the US veto's a Sec Coun resolution that was branding the settlements of Israelies in Palestine territory as illegal.

14 countries voted in favor...the US vetoed....saying that the settelements were illegal but UN interference would obstruct the resumption of peacetalks.

Meanwhile in the real world....the Palestinians say they won't start peacetalks untill the settlements get stopped.