The United States vetoed an Arab-backed U.N. resolution Tuesday demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in the embattled Gaza Strip.
The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 13-1 with the United Kingdom abstaining
It was the third U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza.
why would Israel want to annex Gaza? they’ve entirely destroyed most of its infrastructure, and it’d cost a massive amount to rebuild, and it’s not even really in their identity in the same way that “Judea and Samaria” aka the West Bank is
Ask these guys
Also there’s a 500 billion dollar gas field next to Gaza and israel has already sold it last year while not even owning it
Land is land to blood and soil nationalists.
Not Sinai though
but yeah, irredentist fuckery is annoying
They’re getting to that eventually.
no they’re not, they specifically were fine with giving it back to Egypt cuz they didn’t care about Sinai. It’s historically never been a Jewish place, they have no reason to want it, and Egypt is somewhat an ally of theirs.
Egypt is only somewhat of an ally of Israel because Egypt gets paid off to play nice. Eventually when Israel takes over all of Palestine, the payments will either be greatly reduced or completely eliminated. Around this time, you’ll also find that Israel’s land grab ambitions do not end with Palestine. The “historically Jewish” excuse was used to start Israel, but it won’t end with that’s considered “historically Jewish”.
Isn’t that what Israel has been doing for decades? Bomb and kill Palestinians on their land. Colonizers move in and build their own homes.
Not Gaza, the West Bank. Gaza hasn’t been settled since 2005, just blockaded and stuff (which is still very bad)
And yet it shows the Israeli far right would like to settle in Gaza.
I mean, if you are to judge the country by the worst amongst them, there is basically not a single country with an ounce of morality — but Ben Gvir and Smotrich etc. would never manage to get that to happen because the West Bank means more to them and Bibi knows it, and it’s also more strategically wise for them to leave Gaza alone and quietly continue settling the West Bank. Even during this war Bibi has claimed that they won’t try to settle Gaza, and again, why would they? Most Israelis don’t want it, the US doesn’t want it, not even the fairly right-wing Netanyahu wants it, and it’d cost massive political capital for very little gain.
The Israeli’s have also protested Netanyahu staying in power and this genocide. I don’t think they care what the people want.
They even forcefully removed their settlers out of Gaza, emptied thriving settlements as a gesture of good will. They were almost immediately thanked for it by bombs, rockets, shootings and other attacks while the Palestinians in Gaza razed productive greenhouses and tore up irrigation pipes as they took over these settlements. It was a slap in the face, shortsighted idiocy by the Palestinian leadership and, sadly, a taste of what was to come.
They also blocked anything moving into or out of Gaza. Which is an Act of War. Don’t forget that part.
I do agree that it is bad; but you do need both sides to negotiate to actually get peace. Israel unilaterally offered a de-escalatory move, and what ended up happening was Hamas taking over from the PA. Nothing happens in a vacuum — just like how Israel’s action there wasn’t without cause either, but designed to put the issue on the backburner. But it was still a move towards what could have been a peaceful (though likely uneasy) coexistence which Hamas made impossible
What happened was Hamas got elected on a moderate peace seeking platform. And Israel blocked them from taking their place in West Bank while assassinating political leaders who were calling for a 1969 peace.
Just keep leaving key things out. It doesn’t make you look bad at all.
caveat of course being that the Israeli far right are full of cuckoos
Because the cruelty is the point for fascists