OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
12:51 PM – Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Just hours before a scheduled U.N. Security Council meeting, the Biden administration passed an anti-Israel resolution that the Islamic nation of Algeria is said to be pushing to stop the Jewish state's war of self-defense against Hamas. He did not comment on how he would vote. To vote for it.
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The late Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Abba Eban once said, “If Algeria introduced a (UN) resolution declaring that the Earth is flat and that Israel made it flat, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13, with 26 abstentions. It will be done.”
Several politicians, including prominent Republican U.S. senators, are now perplexed and outraged by the proposed resolution.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said, “This resolution is just one of several attacks on Israel planned at the United Nations, preemptively and permanently weakening the incoming Trump administration and Republican Congress.'' The aim is to make it a reality.”
“I will work with my Republican colleagues and President Trump to fundamentally reevaluate our relationship with the United Nations and the Palestinians, to significantly reduce aid, and to issue specific calls to the specific officials responsible for these actions. “We will take all necessary steps to reverse these measures, including imposing sanctions against governments and NGOs that promote or implement them,” he added.
A spokesperson said in a statement that an agreement must be reached as soon as possible to return the hostages to their families after more than 400 days in captivity.
The U.S. mission to the United Nations did not respond to requests for comment.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield's statement at the world body on Monday did not mention the pending draft resolution.
But she added, “The United States is pursuing the clear goal of ending the Gaza war by ensuring the release of the hostages, while ramping up aid to the Palestinians, which it did not begin and could not begin.” “He has demonstrated leadership and determination in doing so.” Please end this conflict. Forcefully counter Iran's terrorist proxies and destabilizing activities and demonstrate a determined and unprecedented commitment to Israel's security while avoiding a broader regional war. ”
said Ann Baevsky, professor and director of the Touro Institute for Human Rights and the Holocaust.
“Hamas allies are balking at the prospect of the outgoing Biden administration vetoing a resolution bashing Israel that is expected to be adopted by the UN Security Council on Tuesday,” she said. , claimed that “the United States has been busy massaging the terms of the leaked draft to the press for weeks.” Al Jazeera and al arabiya”
“The work of the United Nations and the United States is to pretend that everything is humanitarian, when it is quite the contrary. , ensuring that anti-Semitism and the unlawful denial of Israel's right to self-defense are ignored. If adopted, it would not even condemn Hamas, which President Biden has allowed to pass since October 7th. Security Council resolution,” she added.
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon similarly criticized the draft resolution.
“A resolution that does not make the release of the hostages a condition of ceasefire means abandoning the 101 hostages to the hell of terrorists,” Danon said. “The decisions being advanced by this Council will only strengthen Hamas and terrorism and give up hostages. We will not stop fighting until all of our men and women are brought home.”
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