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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Land is land to blood and soil nationalists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not Sinai though

but yeah, irredentist fuckery is annoying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're getting to that eventually.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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".

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

the gas field next to Gaza

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not Gaza, the West Bank. Gaza hasn't been settled since 2005, just blockaded and stuff (which is still very bad)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And yet it shows the Israeli far right would like to settle in Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The Israeli's have also protested Netanyahu staying in power and this genocide. I don't think they care what the people want.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

caveat of course being that the Israeli far right are full of cuckoos

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Because the cruelty is the point for fascists