The UN Security Council won’t be condemning Israel for Gaza anytime soon. Libya lost.
The United Nations Security Council will not discuss the proposal to condemn Israel over the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip by the Jewish state, following an adamant battle held by the Israeli delegation to the UN and backed by the United States.
[…] Senior diplomatic sources in Jerusalem said Tuesday that Libya had withdrawn its condemnation proposal which it has been advancing over the past two weeks, after Israel opposed any negotiations on the wording of such a proposal.
Sources in Livni’s office said that Israel’s insistence, backed by the US, was what caused Libya, the Security Council’s chair this month, to go back on its demand that the discussion be held.
[…] At first the Arab states demanded a one-sided condemnation against Israel on the backdrops of its operations in Gaza. Libya and other Arab countries claimed that the blockade imposed by the Jewish state was causing a severe humanitarian crisis.
The international community, however, responded by demanding that the rocket attacks on Israel be denounced as well.
Foreign Minister Livni instructed the Israeli delegation not to enter negotiation on the resolution’s wording. Despite additional attempts by Libya to hold such talks, the Jewish state refused to compromise and was backed by the US.
Foreign Ministry officials welcomed the Israeli achievement, estimating that this would not prevent a discussion on the matter by the UN General Assembly.
Of course not. Expect a rousing anti-Israel resolution from the General Assembly, with European nations abstaining, as usual.
Backed by the United States. When a veto-weilding power at the UNSC says it will not support a resolution that resolution is dead. Israel’s adamant refusal to negotiate about was simply frosting on the cake.
Weilding the veto is the only reason I can see for the USA staying in this anti-American, corrupt, rotten, antisemitic, racist, organizatioon that is an apologist for and enabler of tyrants, terrorists and people who think the 20th Century’s horros were so much fun we should do them all over again in the 21st Century. We should stay in to use our veto to protect ourselves and our friends with it from the faux moral support a UN resolution gives to some outrage.