The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favour and two abstentions – the UK and Switzerland.
The United States vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council (UNSC) which recommended granting the State of Palestine full membership in the United Nations. ⠀
The office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the US veto was “blatant aggression … which pushes the region ever further to the edge of the abyss”. ⠀
The Palestinian armed group [Hamas] accused the US of standing “in the face of international will” by exercising its veto power and denying Palestinians full membership in the world body. ⠀
[Egypt’s] Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed “deep regret” over the inability of the UNSC to pass the resolution and said approving Palestine’s bid to become a full UN member was a vital step and “an inherent right of the Palestinian people”. ⠀
Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, said that by exercising its veto, the US has demonstrated “what they really think of the Palestinians”.
Washington thinks “they do not deserve to have their own state”, and it only realises “the interest of Israel”, he added. ⠀
Saudi Arabia expressed regret over the failure of the UNSC to adopt the resolution, it said in a statement. ⠀
[Norway’s] Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide expressed his country’s “regret” that the UNSC “did not agree on admitting Palestine as a full member of the UN”. ⠀
Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz commended the US for vetoing the resolution, which he labelled a “shameful proposal”, in a post on X.
I think others have covered what the UN is actually doing and why. So I’m going to ask a question. Based on the thread under your comment, and being specific as to what and why, how would you replace (or abolish) it and why would your replacement (or abolishment) be better than what’s happening now?
I would really love to hear an answer. Others have already pointed out what a shit show global politics are, even at the best of times. If there’s a better way I’ll be the first in line behind you.
An international organisation of equality like the General Assembly without an elite club who wield veto power and render international law useless. The US has vetoed over 40 resolutions on Israel. Had they not, Israel would long since have been considered a pariah state instead of acting with utter impunity leading to the current genocide. Right now international law is just an extension of Western and specifically of US power which is why no one in the Global South takes it seriously.
You know Israel can simply ignore the UN resolutions and continue doing what they do. The irony is that Israel exists today thanks to the UN, but that’s another story.