“Besides no food, water, medicine, electricity, no way out….no ceasefire for you.”
America, along with cruel allies Britain, France, and Japan, voted down a UN Security Council resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.
Why? It was proposed by imaginary US enemy Russia, supported by our other imaginary enemy China, and didn’t condemn Hamas. But neither did it condemn Israel. That is the whole point of proposing and achieving a ceasefire…. to stop the dying so mediation and diplomacy can begin in a toned down atmosphere.
Catastrophically for Gazans, that is the last thing America apparently wants. There are $10 billion in proposed new weapons for Israel that must be spent to keep the war profits flowing… and Gazans dying.
Walt Zlotow became involved in antiwar activities upon entering University of Chicago in 1963. He is current president of the West Suburban Peace Coalition based in the Chicago western suburbs. He blogs daily on antiwar and other issues at www.heartlandprogressive.blogspot.com.
It would appear that Joe & Company would like Israel to clean house in quick fashion, so that things can get back to normal. Normal being occupation, night patrols, detaining children, killing children, more lands for settlers. Just jolly good normal. Now, how about a little MNF!
“…clean house in quick fashion,…”
Or, draw this out a while. A lot of eyes have turned from Ukraine’s disaster of a ‘counteroffensive’. Misdirection makes for wonderful sleight-of-hand.
Yes, a distraction to keep our eyes off of the ball.
I wish Russia would have proposed that cease fire while condemning Hamas. That way the bullshit reason it was voted down by the US and its lackeys wouldn’t have been able to be used. But there damn sure would have been another one. Probably just the fact that Russia proposed it would have been sufficient.