American diplomacy in its purest form and an image for history (of infamy). That of a single arm raised. In just one day, the US has made it clear in the United Nations Organization (UN) its closure of ranks with Israel, with its story and, therefore, with the military campaign that currently focuses on the Gaza Strip and the forced displacement of about half a million civilians. For the fifth time and using his right to veto in the Security Council -Privilegio with which Russia, China, United Kingdom and France-, Washington has blocked a resolution project that claimed a high fire.
It was not any truce. That high fire would be immediate, unconditional and permanent, but the key is that it would also be and the Palestine. The US, in the same reflection of other times that this issue has reached the Security Council -last, on June 4, even with Joe Biden -has remained. To understand that loneliness, it must be remembered that the maximum executive organ of the United Nations has 15 permanent members and 10 rotary. The latter are those who had presented the project of resolution: Algeria, Denmark, Slovenia, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone and Somalia.
“Our opposition to this resolution will be no surprise,” said the US representative in the Security Council, Morgan Ortagus, in the explanations prior to the vote. There may not be so much international consensus in itself that “opposition” is properly argued. According to Ortagus, the proposal they discarded “does not condemn Hamas or recognize Israel’s right to defend themselves, and erroneously legitimizes the false narratives that benefit him and unfortunately have found echo in this Council.” And it is that the US has vetoed a truce five times in this organ, but it has 50 critical resolutions against Israel that has stopped.
But it should be noted that this proposition also included the release of all hostages in the hands of Hamas or other Palestinian militias. And force Israel a. That is, it did condemned the actions of the Islamist group. But Ortagus gave clues that it is not the course that the Trump administration – the same that proposes to create a luxury urban project in Gaza – wants to continue in the framework of the Israeli invasion: “The United States will never accept this. President Trump will never accept it.”
To vote at the UN against stopping a “genocide” to reject the UN report that proves the “genocide”
It is not the only position regarding the Arab-Palestinian conflict that the US has starred in the early hours of this Friday. And it has a lot to do with the vote that has lying on the Security Council. The same American representative, Morgan Ortagus, has loaded on multiple fronts against the one published by an independent UN commission that determines that Israel is committing in the Gaza Strip. He has discredited it, has denied it and assured that it goes against the rules of the UN.
According to Washington, all the evidence contained in this investigation responds to “lies” of Hamas and serves as an explanation of why the US left the Human Rights Council. According to Ortagus, for the “moral bankruptcy” that is exemplified in the report. “We consider that it is a defamatory report that lacks credibility. It presents lies and distortions for the benefit of Hamas,” he said.
He did not stay alone in attacking and discrediting the report, he also defended that the agency that has prepared it must be eliminated: “It has been eliminated for a long time [la comisión] and ended his anti -Semitic witch hunt. “But, who is behind the report? The UND Independent International Investigation Commission is chaired by the same person who was in charge of the International Criminal Court that was created after the Rwanda genocide: Navi Pillay. In addition, it is a prestige and consensus figure in the matter internationally, apparently, with the exception of the US.
In general terms, what does the discredited report by Ortagus say? He resolves that “Israeli security authorities and forces committed four of the five genocidal acts.” What are these acts? Kill, cause serious physical or mental damage, deliberately inflict living conditions calculated to cause the destruction of part or all the Palestinians, as well as hinder with their actions that occur births.
Beyond the legal or technical debates that accompany the publication of the report, the truth is that Israel has killed at least 67,000 Palestinians in the strip -investigators believe that the real figure is exponentially greater, of -. Also in official figures, of the Gazatí Ministry of Health, we talk about about 165,697 injured (at least 40,500 children and 19,000 women with countless mutilations or psychological sequelae). And the same Government of Israel that before the 7-O prohibited the entry of babies incubators or that has entered the city of Gaza bombing the last pediatric hospital has also spoken bluntly of a plan that includes the eviction of more than one million Palestinians in the strip. With proposal to send them to other countries.
