Palestine, mon amour! (8)

Geopolitikaz

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Netanyahu unveils a $5 billion dollar plan to construct new settlements in Gaza

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Vía: @Lostinpit1

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AMERICA HAS FALLEN…

The US has vetoed a Palestinian request to the United Nations security council for full UN membership, blocking the world body’s recognition of a Palestinian State…

The vote in the 15 member security council was 12 in favor, the US opposed and two t abstentions, the UK and Switzerland…

Without recognition of Palestine as a state it allows Israel to continue the brutal illegal occupation…

They also believe it hands them a get out of jail free card to continue to assist the genocide of Palestinians…

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Paco Arnau@ciudadfutura

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DD Geopolitics@DD_Geopolitics

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Patrick Henningsen@21WIRE

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Catholic Bishops call on Israel to end the occupation of Palestine and tell Israel to stop using the bible as an excuse for the occupation…

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Just incase you’re wondering why American keeps vetoing Israel…

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Patrick Wintour@patrickwintour

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Lord Bebo@MyLordBebo

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@zei_squirrel

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Chen Weihua （陈卫华）@chenweihua

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Speaker Mike Johnson, on NEWSMAX promoting his war funding bill: “For those of us who are believers, it’s a Biblical admonition to stand with Israel”

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Palestina Hoy@HoyPalestina

WikiLeaks@wikileaks

2018 mai. 1

Historical context for today’s Netanyahu presentation in English, explicitly directed at Trump, on Iran. In 2002, he told the U.S. Congress “If you take out Saddam, Saddam’s regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region.”

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Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

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ashok kumar @broseph_stalin

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Speaker Mike Johnson, on NEWSMAX promoting his war funding bill: “For those of us who are believers, it’s a Biblical admonition to stand with Israel”

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How is this rogue state Israel allowed to present the West with two choices: either get dragged in to a regional war or continue being complicit in genocide. On @Channel4News this evening ahead of a UN Security Council vote on admitting Palestine as a member state.

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Seyed Mohammad Marandi@s_m_marandi

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The US Doesn’t Support A Two-State Solution, It Just Supports Saying It Does

Caitlin Johnstone

Apr 19, 2024

(https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-us-doesnt-support-a-two-state)

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

The US doesn’t support a two-state solution, the US only supports saying the US supports a two-state solution. We know this because the US just vetoed Palestine’s bid to become a full UN member state, after lobbying other countries to vote against the resolution — despite continually saying it supports the foundation of a Palestinian state. Washington’s words say one thing, but its actions say the opposite.

This is because if the US admitted its actual position, it would greatly damage its reputation on the world stage. What the US actually wants is the same thing the Israelis want: for the Palestinians to go away, or lie down and submit completely, or otherwise stop being an inconvenience until they’re a forgotten footnote in the dustbin of history. But the US can’t come right out and say this, so it pretends to support a two-state solution that Israel has spent years doing everything it can to ensure never happens. It’s a completely fictional resolution to a very real problem, but the alternative to supporting it is to admit you support continued apartheid, oppression, ethnic cleansing and genocide.

So the US maintains this ridiculous charade where it keeps pretending to support this fake non-solution, even while taking concrete actions which make it clear that it does not. Immediately after vetoing the Palestinian bid for UN membership, Deputy US Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood declared, “The United States continues to strongly support a two-state solution. This vote does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood,” saying the emergence of a Palestinian state can only come about through direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. We can see right now how things are going on that front.

(https://twitter.com/HamzaMSyed/status/1781075863917720050)

As always, the only way to understand the US-centralized global power structure is to ignore what its officials say and watch what they actually do instead. This is good advice for understanding geopolitics and government dynamics in general, and it’s good advice for sorting out fact from fiction when dealing with any manipulator in your personal life. Ignore their words, and watch their actions.

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The Washington Post put out a good investigative report on the IDF’s murder of six year-old Hind Rajab along with her family in Gaza earlier this year, showing that evidence points to Israeli forces being behind the attack. Washington Post editors immediately shitcoated this report by giving it the obnoxious headline “Palestinian paramedics said Israel gave them safe passage to save a 6-year-old girl in Gaza. They were all killed.” 

This headline is carefully crafted to suggest that Israel kindly granted safe passage to Palestinian healthcare workers, who were then killed by some unknown assailant. Imagine going through all the work of putting out a hard investigative report, and then having your editor slap this shit on it. Disgusting.

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A senior US Air Force leader and whistleblower has informed Congress that the US is refusing to pull its military forces from Niger despite being told to do so by the new Nigerien government, and that refusing to withdraw troops from a nation where they aren’t wanted is putting them at risk. Which means we’ve got yet another illegal US military occupation on our hands.

(https://x.com/caitoz/status/1781121200493887777)

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It’s so stupid how everyone’s felt the need to keep pretending to believe the Gaza death toll has legitimately hovered around thirty thousand for months now just because Israel supporters have even been calling the official death count a Hamas-driven exaggeration. 

We all know the Gaza health ministry hasn’t had the infrastructure or ability to count all the dead throughout the Gaza Strip for months and that the official number doesn’t include people killed by starvation and disease due to the Israeli blockade, but because Israel supporters (including the US president) threw shade on the health ministry’s numbers from the beginning they succeeded in dragging the Overton window all the way down to this ridiculously conservative estimate just through sheer vitriol and denialism — even though we know the killing never stopped.

Ralph Nader wrote in early March that the real number is probably more like 200,000. There’s no good reason to discount this. It’s certainly more likely than the number just continuing to sit around thirty thousand for no reason.

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US blocks UN from recognizing Palestine

(https://youtu.be/VndvgbR51D4)

US Vetoes Palestine’s Dreams of UN Membership

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now let’s take a step back and look at

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what started this mess in West Asia the

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original conflict between Israel and

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Palestine another blow was dealt to the

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Palestinians yesterday this time at the

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United Nations the UN Security Council

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held a vote yesterday on the question of

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palestine’s membership to the UN 15

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members of the security Council voted

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like this will those in favors favor of

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the draft resolution contained in

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document

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s224 SL 312 please raise their

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hand okay we been recorded

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right those against

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thank you

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abstentions 12 Security Council Members

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voted to allow Palestine to join two

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members abstain that’s Britain and

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Switzerland they chose not to vote and

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one loan security council member

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rejected the resolution that is the

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United States of America so of course

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because of how the UN works the

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resolution was rejected the US used it

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veto and torpedoed Palestinian dreams of

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un membership after the veto the US said

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this the United States continues to

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strongly support a two-state

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solution this vote does not reflect

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opposition to Palestinian statehood but

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instead is an acknowledgement that it

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will only come from direct negotiations

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between the

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parties the US says it strongly supports

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a two-state solution but it seems that

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strength did not extend to UN members

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ship if the US had not VTO the

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resolution Palestine would have become

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the 194th permanent member of the United

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Nations now remember this does not mean

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much not on the ground anyway un

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membership would not have created a new

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country called Palestine it would not

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have forced Israel to withdraw its

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troops from Gaza or even the West Bank

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for that matter nothing would have

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really changed on the ground nothing

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other than a symbolic victory for the

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Palestinians

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which they clearly

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knew this resolution naturally will not

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be the alternative for serious political

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negotiations that are time bound to

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implement the two-state solution or

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relevant Security Council and G

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resolutions and to resolve the pending

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issues between Palestinians and Israelis

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however this resolution will grant hope

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to the Palestinian people hope for a

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decent life within an independent

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state the Palestinian representative

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said said it was about hope nothing else

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but that isn’t what the US believes

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Israel did not believe it either after

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the vote Israel thanked the US for its

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veto and it criticized all the other

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Security Council Members I explained how

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the Palestinian Authority does not meet

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even the basic criteria that they have

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no authority over their territory and

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that the Palestinian Authority is a

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terror supporting

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entity now the Israeli representative

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mentioned something interesting

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Palestine does not meet the basic

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criteria of statehood they don’t have

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any authority over their territory

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passion which is true this is a map of

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Israel and the Palestinian territories

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based on the 1967 borders on the bottom

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left is Gaza the Palestinian Authority

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does not control that Gaza is ruled by

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Hamas then there is the other part of

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Palestine the West Bank it’s called that

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because it is located on the West Bank

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of the Jordan River this is the

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territory that the Palestinian Authority

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governs except it doesn’t actually

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govern the area not independently the

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Palestinian Authority manages some

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Affairs in just these regions the rest

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of the area is administered by Israel

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they have controlled this area since the

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7th of June 1967 so technically the

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Palestinian Authority is an authority

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only in

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name that is why Israel says it does not

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meet the Bas basic criteria of statehood

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and that is true there is no denying the

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reality but here’s the catch this has

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not stopped the United Nations from

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recognizing a member before the UN

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admitted Ukraine in 1945 when it was

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still part of the Soviet Union it

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admitted Monaco in 1993 even though most

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of its governance was taken care of by

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France so there’s definitely a precedent

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Palestine could have been made a member

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it’s not something the UN hasn’t done

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before most countries think it is time

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to allow Palestine to have a SE that the

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T from across the world about 140

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countries have already recognized the

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state of Palestine almost all the

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countries are in Asia Africa and South

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America India Brazil the Philippines

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Poland almost everyone is on board India

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supports Palestinian statehood only the

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West has not recognized Palestine yet

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we’ve been waiting since

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1947 and we are in

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2024 admit us to membership it’s an

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investment in peace

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no matter how much the Palestinians

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plead because the US holds

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disproportionate power at the United

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Nations because it has a veto Palestine

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will not become a UN member

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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VndvgbR51D4)

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the United States is singlehandedly

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standing in the way to prevent the

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creation of a Palestinian State on the

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18th of April there was a vote in the

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United Nations security Council that

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called for Palestine to be admitted as a

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UN member State and there was one

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country on the 15 member Security

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Council that voted against the

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resolution the United States and the US

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has veto power meaning that Washington

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was was able to prevent the security

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Council from recommending that Palestine

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becomes a member State and this means

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that the UN General Assembly which has

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193 member states is not able to have a

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vote so the vast majority of the world

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which recognizes Palestine as a state

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does not have a voice they have been

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silenced because the United States is

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holding the entire world hostage

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blocking the UN from recognizing

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Palestine

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this is the fifth time since October

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that the US has used its veto power in

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order to sabotage a resolution in the

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security Council that was related to

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Gaza and the other four cases the US

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blocked proposals of ceasefires and

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peace that tried to save Palestinian

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lives while Israel is using large

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numbers of Us weapons to kill

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Palestinian civilians trapped in the

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besieged Gaza Strip and while this is is

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happening with staunch us support Israel

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is expanding its war on Gaza into a

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regional war and Israel is repeatedly

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attacking Iran this was confirmed by US

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government officials who spoke with CNN

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and they revealed that Israel actually

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gave Advanced notification to the United

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States on Thursday the 18th of April

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when it was making its plans to attack

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Iran the US knew that Israel was going

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to attack Iran and on the same day the

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us at the UN Security Council vetoed a

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resolution that called to recognize

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Palestine now the Joe Biden

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Administration claims that it supposedly

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does not want this war to continue to

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expand and it supposedly told Israel

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does not support its attack on Iran but

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this is complete propaganda just because

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the US government says something doesn’t

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mean it actually means it because in

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reality you have to look at what the US

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government does and not simply what it

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says and if you look at the actions of

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the Biden Administration it has

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continued supporting Israel 100% giving

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it weapons as it continues to expand

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this war after all it was Israel that

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started this new phase of the war back

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on the 1 of April when Israel attacked

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Iran’s Embassy in Syria killing top

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military officials this was an act of

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war against against Iran in response to

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that the US government ordered Iran not

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to respond in self-defense lecturing

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Iran then on the 3rd of April the US

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blocked a proposal in the security

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Council that would have condemned the

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attack on the Iranian Embassy in Syria

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so the US was protecting Israel once

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again at the security Council and then

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the US showed its blatant double

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standards and it demanded hypocritically

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that the security Council condemn Iran

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for attacking Israel in self-defense

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after Israel attacked Iran first and

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after the US prevented the security

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Council from condemning Israel for

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carrying out this act of war against

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Iran and then the cherion top of the

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hypocrisy is the Biden Administration

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imposed more sanctions on Iran after

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Iran which had a right under

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international law to act in self-defense

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carried out a Counterattack against is

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Israel in response to Israel’s first

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attack on its Embassy the US did not

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condemn that the US told the world to

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condemn Iran and then the US put

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sanctions on Iran for defending itself

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so at every single stage here we can see

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how the US is blocking peace in the

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Security Council is arming Israel as

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it’s bombing women and children trapped

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in Gaza and then the US is supporting

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Israel 100% as it bombs Iran

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and expands this into a regional War the

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US is dragging the world into World War

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III and then they’re blaming Iran and

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meanwhile in the middle of all of this

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the US is openly preventing the

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recognition of Palestine as a member of

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the United Nations and I’m reading here

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from the UN news agency they published a

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newswire on the 18th of April that is

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titled us V palestine’s request for full

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un membership and this article notes

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that of the 15 countries on the UN

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Security Council 12 countries voted in

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support of this resolution including

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China and Russia and France also voted

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in support of it one country vetoed it

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the US and two countries abstained those

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were the UK and Switzerland and of

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course Britain goes along with the US

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and basically does whatever it wants and

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in fact let’s not forget it was in fact

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the British Empire that colonized

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Palestine and it was the British Empire

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that gave its blessing to the creation

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of Israel as a colonial project back in

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1917 with the balfor Declaration in

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which the British Empire said that it

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would support the creation of this

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colonial entity through the colonization

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of the indigenous Palestinian population

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and then of course later the the US

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Empire absorbed much of the British

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Empire after World War II and the US

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Empire has continued this colonial

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project started by the British Empire

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and fast forward to today and we see how

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the anglo-american colonial axis

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continues to oppress the Palestinian

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people and deny them their inalienable

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rights to having political

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representation and a state of their own

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which are written into international law

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now this article at the News website

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pointed out that the resolution that the

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US vetoed was one of the shortest

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Security Council resolutions in the

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history of the body going back to

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1945 it all it said was the security

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Council having examined the application

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of the State of Palestine for admission

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to the United Nations recommends to the

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general assembly that the state of

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Palestine be admitted to membership in

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the United Nations that’s it very simple

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and in order for a country to be

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recognized as a member state of the UN

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the security Council has to approve it

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in order to later go to the general

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assembly for a vote where the world can

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vote the 193 member states in the world

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but of course the US has veto power at

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the security Council because the US

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helped to create the United Nations and

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the US basically refuses to be part of

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any International political body unless

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it has veto power this is the so-called

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rules-based International order in which

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the US makes the rules and orders

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everyone else around now this un news

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report pointed out that back in 2011

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Palestine officially requested to become

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a UN member State and in

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2012 Palestine was voted to be a

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permanent Observer of the UN meaning

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that the UN officially recognizes it but

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it’s not officially a member state which

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means that Palestine cannot vote on UN

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General Assembly resolution

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and it should not surprise you to learn

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that back in 2012 when the general

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assembly voted on this resolution that

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recognized Palestine as a non-member

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Observer State

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138 out of the 193 member states the

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vast majority of the world voted in

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support of Palestine and only nine

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countries voted against recognizing

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Palestine as a non-member Observer State

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and can you guess what those countries

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were the United States Canada the Czech

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Republic Panama Israel itself and the

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tiny island nations of Micronesia

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Marshall Islands NAU and plao so it was

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North America and a bunch of us client

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regimes that voted against the vast

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majority of the world in opposing

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recognizing Palestine as simply an

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observer State not even a member in fact

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100 40 out of the

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193 member states roughly three4 of the

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world’s countries officially have

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diplomatic relations with the state of

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Palestine they recognize Palestine as a

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state but the United Nations does not

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and why because of the United States if

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you look at a map of the countries that

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recognize Palestine as a state I mean it

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says everything it’s the global South

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and Russia the global majority that

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recognize Palestine and it’s the Western

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Colonial Powers the US Canada Western

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Europe Australia and also Japan and

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South Korea they are the colonial powers

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that refuse to recognize Palestine and

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it’s specifically Washington that is

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holding the entire world hostage and

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preventing the Palestinian people from

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Ever having their political rights

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realized on the international stage this

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is modern-day colonialism it is

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continued by the same Colonial powers

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that colonized the vast majority of the

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world and they still treat the world as

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their colonial property and they preach

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their beloved so-called rules-based

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International order again in which the

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West makes the rules and orders everyone

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else around and this shows how

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ridiculous it is whenever the US

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government claims that it supports a

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so-called two-state solution every

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single US president for decades

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Republican or Democrat has has always

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repeated this fake Doctrine this Mantra

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that they’ve never actually believed in

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Joe Biden has said dozens of times that

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we support a so-called two-state

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solution whenever he meets with Israeli

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officials back in November Biden claimed

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a two-state solution is the only way to

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guarantee the long-term security of both

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the Israeli and the Palestinian people

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in October he talked about his trip to

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Israel and he said we cannot give up on

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a State solution US Secretary of State

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Anthony blinkin has also claimed dozens

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of times that supposedly the US supports

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a so-called two-state solution he’s

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constantly meeting with top Israeli

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officials and repeating this Doctrine

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but when it actually comes to voting at

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the UN the US always opposes calls for

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the creation of a Palestinian State this

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is exactly why I said earlier it doesn’t

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matter what the US government says it

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doesn’t matter if the Biden

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Administration says that angry at

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Netanyahu and and says it supposedly

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criticized Netanyahu in a phone call one

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time it doesn’t matter what it says it

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matters what the US government does and

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we have seen again and again and again

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and again and again over decades under

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both Republican and Democratic

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presidents the US government has always

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opposed the creation of a Palestinian

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State and always supported the most

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extreme farri maximalist demands in

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Israel for full colonization of historic

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Palestine the renowned historian rashed

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khalidi at Columbia University has shown

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in his book Brokers of Deceit how the US

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has undermined peace in the Middle East

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how Washington always opposed the

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creation of a Palestinian State and

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Washington has always prevented peace in

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Israel Palestine he begins the book

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referring to us officials as dishonest

12:27

Brokers and rashed wrote that an

12:30

American brokered political process has

12:33

for more than 35 years reinforced the

12:37

subjugation of the Palestinian people

12:40

provided Israel and the United States

12:41

with a variety of advantages and made

12:44

considerably more unlikely the prospects

12:47

of a just and Lasting settlement of the

12:50

conflict between Israel and the Arabs

12:53

now this book was published in

12:56

2014 so it’s a decade old but everything

12:59

he wrote about is even more true today

13:02

Professor K wrote that quote the policy

13:05

of the United States toward the

13:06

Palestine question has actually

13:09

functioned to exacerbate rather than

13:12

resolve this problem he detailed how

13:15

Central the support of the United States

13:17

was for the enduring system of control

13:21

of the millions of Palestinians living

13:23

under military occupation A system that

13:26

was conceived constructed and maintained

13:29

by Israel that’s a quote and he added

13:32

that quote the incessantly repeated

13:34

American Mantra whether an official

13:37

statements or writing that is policy

13:39

oriented academic or journalistic about

13:41

a so-called peace process has served to

13:44

disguise an ugly reality whatever

13:47

process the United States was

13:49

championing it was not in fact actually

13:52

directed at achieving a just and Lasting

13:55

peace between Palestinians and Israelis

13:59

instead of trying to achieve these goals

14:01

K wrote the process actually undertaken

14:05

by the United States was aimed primarily

14:07

at pressuring the weaker Palestinians

14:10

into conforming to the desiderata of

14:13

their much stronger oppressor Israel the

14:17

US government does not support peace in

14:19

Palestine the US government does not

14:21

oppose Israel’s war in Gaza and its

14:24

attempt to start a war on Iran the US

14:27

does not want Palestinians to have a

14:30

state recognized under international law

14:33

it doesn’t matter what Joe Biden says

14:35

what Anthony blinkin what Donald Trump

14:36

says George Bush this has been a

14:38

consistent policy going back decades

14:41

this is the reality of the US Empire the

14:44

US is not a normal country it is an

14:46

Empire and it it talks about itself as

14:49

the world policeman but in reality it’s

14:51

not a policeman it is a global dictator

14:53

the US sees itself as the dictator of

14:56

the world that’s why the US is

14:58

constantly trying to to impose its own

15:00

laws on other countries it’s why it’s

15:02

trying to imprison Julian Assange an

15:04

Australian journalist who has never

15:07

lived in the US it is trying to imprison

15:09

him in the US for supposedly violating

15:12

us laws for doing the so-called crime of

15:15

Journalism it’s why the US sanctions

15:17

other countries for violating its

15:19

illegal unilateral sanctions that it

15:21

imposes on the rest of the world and we

15:23

can see this so clearly at the United

15:25

Nations where the US is constantly

15:28

opposing the will of the entire world

15:31

excluding the 133% of the population in

15:34

the west now the United Nations has a

15:37

very interesting website where you can

15:39

see all of the times that members of the

15:41

security Council have used their veto

15:44

throughout history and you can see that

15:47

dozens of times the US has used veto

15:50

power in order to block resolutions in

15:53

the security Council that had to do with

15:55

Israel Palestine if the consequences

15:57

weren’t so deadly it would almost be

15:59

funny I mean just looking at how

16:01

ridiculous it is at how many times the

16:03

US has used its veto power in order to

16:06

protect Israel at the security Council

16:09

because Israel again is an extension of

16:12

the US Empire that’s why the US

16:14

continues to prevent the creation of a

16:17

Palestinian state or at least the

16:18

recognition of a Palestinian State and

16:21

always Shield Israel however there’s

16:23

another very important thing that you

16:25

should draw from this if you analyze

16:27

these us vetos and you can see that only

16:30

some of them involve Israel but the US

16:32

has also frequently used its veto on the

16:34

security Council in order to protect

16:37

white supremacist colonialist settler

16:40

regimes in Africa in fact as the New

16:43

York Times reported Back in 1970 the

16:46

first time the US ever used its veto in

16:49

the security Council was in order to

16:52

protect the white supremacist settler

16:55

Colonial regime in rodesia that was

16:58

named after the the British colonialist

17:00

cesil rhods a diamond magnet and he by

17:04

the way had also been in correspondence

17:07

with the colonialist Theodore Herzel who

17:10

wanted to create the state of Israel as

17:12

a settler Colonial project and was

17:14

seeking the support of the British

17:16

Empire in order to create Israel well

17:18

going back to rodesia the US joined the

17:21

British Empire in supporting these white

17:24

supremacist apartheid regimes in

17:27

southern Africa and if you look at the

17:29

list of us vetos in the security Council

17:32

in the 1970s going into the 80s you can

17:35

see that many of them involve the US

17:38

vetoing resolutions that condemned the

17:41

white supremacist colonialist regimes in

17:45

South Africa in what is modern day

17:47

Namibia which was being occupied by the

17:50

South African apartheid regime and also

17:53

in rhia so I mean this is the perfect

17:56

historical symbol of what the us Empire

18:00

represents for decades the US was

18:03

protecting white supremacist settler

18:06

colonialist regimes in southern Africa

18:09

and meanwhile the US was also protecting

18:13

the white supremacist settler

18:14

colonialist apartheid regime in Israel

18:17

in historic Palestine which carries out

18:20

the exact same practices of apartheid

18:24

that were carried out in South Africa

18:26

Israel carries those out today against

18:28

the indigenous Palestinian population

18:31

this is why leaders of the

18:32

anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa

18:35

like Desmond Tutu constantly compared

18:38

Israel’s apartheid to South Africa’s

18:40

apartheid that’s why they constantly

18:42

supported Palestinians because they

18:44

could see that they were going through

18:45

very similar colonialist processes of

18:49

Oppression by some of the same Colonial

18:51

Powers let’s not forget that the British

18:53

Empire also was involved in the

18:55

colonization of South Africa after the

18:57

Dutch Empire and it’s why the first ever

19:00

leader of South Africa after ending a

19:02

parthe Nelson Mandela famously said that

19:06

without the liberation of the

19:07

Palestinian people we are not free it’s

19:10

why still today the South African

19:13

government continues to support the

19:15

Palestinian people it’s why the South

19:17

African government took Israel to the

19:20

heg the international court of justice

19:22

and charged it with the G crime which

19:25

I’m not going to say because of the

19:26

possibility of this this video being

19:28

demonit ized but it’s why South Africa

19:31

has been taking action against the

19:32

Israeli apartheid regime because there

19:34

is so much in common between what they

19:37

suffered and what the Palestinian people

19:38

are suffering today and the Common

19:41

Thread is also the US Empire staunch

19:44

unflinching support for Israeli apart

19:47

side and South African apart side in

19:49

fact the CIA helped the South African

19:52

apar regime imprisoned Nelson Mandela in

19:55

1962 he was imprisoned for 20 years for

19:59

the so-called crime of opposing

20:01

apartheid in colonialism he was tortured

20:04

with us support and today we see the

20:06

exact same thing this is not new this is

20:09

what the US Empire has always been this

20:11

is the real face of us imperialism us

20:15

politicians talk about human rights and

20:17

democracy and rule of law and all this

20:19

nonsense they do not actually believe in

20:21

it it is all diplomatic cover it is all

20:24

a fig leaf for the neoc colonialist

20:27

policies that they carry out around the

20:29

world in order to protect the wealth of

20:32

a small handful of capitalist oligarchs

20:35

to exploit the majority of the world in

20:38

the global South this is what the US

20:40

Empire is actually dedicated to to

20:42

preserving the wealth of the small

20:44

handful of capitalist oligarchs but

20:46

anyway getting back to the main issue of

20:49

Palestine which of course is Central in

20:51

all of these issues of imperialism we

20:54

should go back and look at this us veto

20:58

in the security Council against

21:00

recognizing Palestine as a member State

21:03

and if we go back to this un news wire

21:06

there are some very revealing comments

21:07

that were made by the Russian and

21:09

Chinese delegations in his statements

21:12

China’s ambassador to the UN said the

21:14

decades long dream of the Palestinian

21:16

people has been quashed at a time when

21:18

the admission of Palestine as a full

21:20

member of the UN is more urgent than

21:23

ever before he said the establishment of

21:25

an independent state is an inalienable

21:28

rights that cannot be questioned China

21:31

has been very outspoken in support of

21:33

Palestine in fact China’s foreign

21:35

minister Wang was in Indonesia on the

21:38

18th of April right before this vote

21:41

happened in the security Council and

21:43

Indonesia’s foreign minister had a press

21:45

conference with wangi and both of them

21:48

called on the World to recognize

21:50

Palestine they called on the security

21:52

Council to allow the UN to admit

21:55

Palestine as a member State they also

21:57

called for immediate ceasefire in Gaza

22:01

and wangi the Chinese foreign minister

22:03

made some very heated comments here

22:05

criticizing the hypocrisy of the United

22:07

States he condemned the US for claiming

22:11

that un Security Council resolutions are

22:14

nonbinding he said the world was shocked

22:17

by this claim he said this shows that to

22:19

the US international law is only a tool

22:23

that they use as they want he said I

22:26

believe American government officials

22:28

should learn learn basic knowledge

22:30

criticizing the ignorance and hypocrisy

22:32

of the US and he also added the US

22:35

government should put aside its ego and

22:39

of course Indonesia has historically

22:41

been a strong supporter of the

22:43

Palestinian cause and its government

22:45

made very similar comments but also if

22:48

we go back to the UN news report we can

22:49

see that at the security Council session

22:52

Russia was quite outspoken in support of

22:55

Palestine as well Russia’s ambassador to

22:57

the UN said that the US once again

23:00

demonstrated what they really think of

23:01

the Palestinians for Washington the

23:04

Palestinians do not deserve to have

23:06

their own State they are only a barrier

23:09

on the path toward realizing the

23:11

interests of Israel he said the absolute

23:14

majority of the global community

23:16

supports palestine’s application to

23:18

become a full member of the UN and the

23:21

Russian Ambassador said today’s use of

23:23

the veto by the US delegation is a

23:25

hopeless attempt to stop the inevitable

23:28

Cor

23:29

of History the results of the vote where

23:31

Washington was practically in complete

23:34

isolation speak for themselves and the

23:38

representative from Russia pointed out

23:40

this was the fifth time the US has

23:42

vetoed a security Council resolution

23:45

since the current war in Gaza in

23:48

February the US vetoed a resolution that

23:51

was introduced by Algeria that called

23:53

for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire

23:55

in Gaza in December the US V a

23:58

resolution that was introduced by the

24:00

United Arab Emirates that also called

24:02

for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire

24:05

in Gaza on the 18th of October the us

24:08

vetoed another resolution that had been

24:10

introduced by Brazil and this was

24:13

actually a weaker resolution all it

24:15

called for was humanitarian pauses to

24:18

deliver life-saving Aid to millions in

24:20

Gaza the US vetoed that as well and two

24:24

days before that on the 16th of October

24:27

the US voted against a resolution that

24:30

was introduced by Russia that called for

24:33

a humanitarian ceasefire and in that

24:35

case France and Japan and the UK the

24:38

other Colonial Powers join the US in

24:41

voting against this resolution calling

24:43

for peace in Gaza and after doing all of

24:46

that this March the US pulled another

24:48

ridiculous political stunt in which the

24:51

US obained in a security Council

24:54

resolution that called for a ceasefire

24:56

in Gaza but only during the month of

24:58

Ramadan so not a permanent ceasefire

25:01

only during the month of Ramadan and

25:03

after this resolution was passed in the

25:05

security Council then the US

25:07

Representative Linda Thomas Greenfield

25:09

she claimed that the security Council

25:12

resolution was quote nonbinding which is

25:15

false according to article 25 of the UN

25:18

Charter all members of the United

25:21

Nations have to carry out the decisions

25:24

of the security Council its resolutions

25:27

are indeed binding under international

25:29

law so the US was trying to rewrite

25:32

international law in order to protect

25:34

Israel as it was bombing Gaza and in

25:37

simply in order to prevent the

25:39

implementation of a resolution that only

25:41

called for a temporary ceasefire during

25:44

the month of Ramadan which Israel

25:46

ignored anyway and the US continued to

25:49

give Israel weapons while it ignored the

25:52

security Council resolution and of

25:53

course the US has also been staunchly

25:56

supporting Israel and sending him more

25:57

weapons as Israel blatantly violates a

26:01

ruling by the international court of

26:03

justice at the he the top legal

26:05

authority of the UN the top legal

26:07

Authority in the world and it the court

26:09

said very clearly that Israel could be

26:13

investigated for violating the

26:15

convention on the G crime the worst

26:17

crime that a country could commit I’m

26:19

not going to say that word so this is

26:20

not demonetized here because there’s

26:23

been a lot of censorship or people

26:24

talking about that Israel is violating

26:26

that icj ruling while un experts are

26:30

publicly saying that Israel is

26:31

committing the G crime in Gaza Israel is

26:35

carrying out crimes against humanity the

26:37

US government is arming it and strongly

26:39

supporting it the Biden Administration

26:41

claims that he doesn’t want more war

26:44

while he continues to give Netanyahu

26:46

weapons to carry out that war and now

26:49

Israel is expanding that war Waging War

26:51

on Iran as well and the US is preventing

26:54

the United Nations from recognizing

26:56

Palestine as a member of State quite

26:59

literally the US is the world’s biggest

27:02

obstacle to world peace that is not an

27:06

exaggeration the United States

27:08

government the US Empire is the biggest

27:11

obstacle to World Peace period if you’ve

27:14

learned anything since this horrific War

27:17

started in October that should be one of

27:20

the most important lessons that you take

27:23

away on that note I’m going to conclude

27:25

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