War in Israel-Palestine - October 2023

The US resolution for "immediate ceasefire" is in favor of Israel, because it would make Hamas' ceasefire proposal null and void, which means that it wouldn't stop ethnic cleansing in Gaza permanently. Actually, the US is proposing Israel's proposal at UNSC.

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US circulates UN resolution seeking immediate Gaza truce

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Washington has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council that calls for “an immediate ceasefire" in the Gaza Strip.
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During the past almost six months, the US has vetoed three draft resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israeli offensive, which has so far killed at least 31,923 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 74,096 others.
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Israel gave ‘negative’ response to Hamas’ proposal for Gaza truce: Official

A senior Hamas official says the resistance group showed “flexibility” in formulating its latest proposal for a Gaza ceasefire, but Israel provided a “negative” response to the offer.
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This is very hard to see and demonstrates a high degree of malice

Harsh scenes of Zionist army drones bombing Palestinian civilians, totally unarmed and even kneeling down begging for their lives, in the streets of Khan Yunis, south of Gaza.

Every day Palestinians are killed in the most horrific and violent ways in a multitude of crimes against humanity while the so-called "international community" looks the other way and does not impose a single economic sanction on "Israel".
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Puma said:
This is very hard to see and demonstrates a high degree of malice

https://twitter.com/x/status/1770973054778179941

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I feel literally chocked
by these two videos. Not even sure how to put that feeling in words anymore - because it is so beyond evil... so unspeakable wicked...

Yet so powerful, that everyone outside in this world - increasingly understands that this - has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with "justified revenge".

Well Dear Israel, see your image just about to become obliterated. And you brought this all on yourself.
 
After Russia and China exercised their right of veto in the UN Security Council and blocked a draft resolution on the Middle East submitted by the United States. Because , the text does not contain a corresponding demand or appeal.
In addition to Russia and China, Algeria opposed the document. Guyana abstained. South Korea, Ecuador, France, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Slovenia, Sierra Leone, Switzerland, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and the United States voted in favor.

Netanyahu says Israel will launch Rafah invasion without US, if necessary​


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel will launch a ground operation in Rafah without US backing, if necessary.
He said that he told visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday that there was no way to defeat Hamas without an invasion of Rafah.
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Israel’s war on Gaza live: Netanyahu brushes off Blinken over Rafah attack​

"And I told him that I hope we will do it with the support of the US, but if we have to - we will do it alone," he said.
+Secretary of State Antony Blinken again leaves the Middle East empty-handed as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects US appeals to shelve a planned ground invasion of southern Rafah, where 1.5 million terrified Palestinians are sheltering.
+UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visits the Gaza border city of Rafah on Saturday to reiterate his call for an urgent humanitarian truce.
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Netanyahu says Israel will launch Rafah invasion without US, if necessary

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Israel snubs US plea not to invade Gaza’s Rafah, vows to ‘do it alone’

After top US envoy calls for Gaza restraint, PM Netanyahu pledges ground attack will go ahead without US support.
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Security Council passes resolution demanding 'an immediate ceasefire' during Ramadan​


The UN Security Council on Monday passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and "the urgent need to expand the flow" of aid into Gaza. There were 14 votes in favour with the United States abstaining.​

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UPDATING LIVE: Security Council passes resolution demanding 'an immediate ceasefire' during Ramadan

The UN Security Council on Monday passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and "the urgent need to expand the flow" of aid into Gaza. There were 14 votes in favour with the United States abstaining. Follow...
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It seems that the US government better refrain from voting in favor of a ceasefire, experience says that Israel has the means to convince the world that Hamas or ISIS can attack anywhere.

By now the world should be wondering why ISIS does not attack Israel.​
 
Israel with US permission to continue its massacre in Gaza... or the US turns a blind eye to stay out of trouble.

"Regardless of the UN vote, Israel can continue what it is doing in Gaza"

"It's a non-binding resolution, so there's no impact at all on Israel and Israel's ability to continue to go after Hamas...as I said in my opening statement, it does not represent a change at all in our policy." - he said.

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Does this mean that international law for US and Israel is "non-binding"?

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Netanyahu cancels delegation’s US visit after ceasefire vote

Washington’s decision not to veto UN resolution on truce in Gaza is a “clear retreat” from its consistent position, Netanyahu’s office says
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The US had concerns about the resolution because it did not condemn the October 7 attack, but did not veto it because its call for a ceasefire and for the release of hostages is consistent with Washington’s policy, Miller said, calling the resolution “non-binding.”
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Israel has rejected Hamas' "delusional demands" just to achieve its delusional demands.

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Hamas demands delusional – Israel

The United Nations Security Council has emboldened the Palestinian militants to make unacceptable demands, according to Israel
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“Israel will not address Hamas’s delusional demands. Israel will pursue and achieve its just war objectives: Destroying Hamas’s military and governmental capacities, release of all the hostages, and ensuring Gaza will not pose a threat to the people of Israel in the future,” Netanyahu’s office said.
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Order based on rules or are rules based on my orders?​

The current rule-based order is composed of unwritten laws whose source, consent and legitimacy are unknown.
For most of the world's countries at the UN, these unwritten laws appear to be invoked when they benefit the United States and its partners (Israel, Ukraine) and are not invoked when they do not want to.
In the recent UN Security Council Resolution 2728 which "demands" a ceasefire in Gaza and "demands" the release of hostages and "demands" the unimpeded supply of food and other items to Gaza. The United States has claimed, falsely , that the resolution is not binding.
A tweet from Arnaud Bertrand explaining the convenience of this rule-based order, in this forum all that he writes seems obvious to us, which I consider important because it is part of the awakening of many people:
Since the beginning, it's been obvious that Gaza was in many ways a fight between International Law and the US's "rules-based order".https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1772389118439252045/video/1…This whole episode around the UN resolution is a perfect illustration of this. There is no debate amongst international law scholars that resolutions by the UN Security Council that "demand" certain actions are binding (good explanation by a legal scholar here: https://verfassungsblog.de/why-todays-un-security-council-resolution-demanding-an-immediate-ceasefire-is-legally-binding/…).
In fact resolutions by the council ARE international law, article 25 of the UN Charter clearly states:
"The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter."
Yet the US now argues that the "rule" is in fact different: "It's a non-binding resolution, so there's no impact at all on Israel".
Where is this rule written, that somehow when the UNSC "demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire", it's non-binding and "there's no impact at all" on the warring party?

Nowhere, that's the beauty of the rules-based order: the rules are made-up in the moment to fit the interests of the U.S. and its henchmen, depending on the circumstances. Had the very same resolution, with the exact same language, been adopted for a conflict that the U.S. actually wanted stopped, there's no doubt they'd have argued the exact opposite: that it was binding and the hostilities had to cease immediately. Which goes to show that sometimes the Rules-Based Order does align with international law, when it's in the US's interests to do so. In that sense, Israel's genocide in Gaza is a great revealer because everything about it goes against international law: the mass killing of civilians, journalists, and humanitarian workers; the pre-existing occupation of Palestinian land; the wholesale destruction of Gaza: the hospitals, the mosques, the schools; the torture of prisoners; the deliberate starvation of the population, etc.
So never before have we been able to see in such an obvious way the immense contrast between the rules-based order and international law. And there's no going back, the curtain was pulled: if they hadn't noticed before, the world now knows for sure that the US (and Israel of course) is quite literally a rogue state, operating outside international laws and norms, and outside the most fundamental moral principles.There's no overstating how consequential this is for the integrity of international relations. By doing so, the US effectively destroys the world order it largely created after WW2 because it effectively tells everyone that the set of institutions, rules and norms that underpin it are meaningless.
We're effectively now in a world system where everyone realizes the police, the government, the basic set of beliefs, have become completely corrupted. This changes everything.

What comes next? I think there's no coming back for the U.S. And I think they know this, maybe unconsciously, otherwise they would at least pretend to act for the better good of all. The fact they don't shows they've effectively abdicated ambitions to restore their hegemony: they're now nakedly in it to milk the system for themselves, universal pretentions have gone.Most countries however don't want to live in an "eat or get eaten"/"might makes right" world, without rules or norms. So in time a new system will arise.
The biggest unknowns being: can it arise without a major global war, who will lead the construction of its foundations and how can it be set up so that this time around it is fair for all and respected by all?
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"Credible and reliable written assurances": The use of US bombs for killing civilians in Gaza is in "accordance with international law".

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US secretly sending more bombs to Israel – WaPo

Washington has reportedly authorized a massive arms package to Israel despite apparent reservations about the upcoming Rafah incursion
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Washington insists that Israel has provided the US with “credible and reliable written assurances” that any military aid provided has been used in accordance with international law. “We have not found them to be in violation,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told the press on Monday.
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In Numbers: 175 days of Israeli-American genocidal war on Gaza Strip​

 
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