Although the USA should be commended on the remarkable feat of being more spineless than Kier Starmer and Labour, there is very little else to celebrate. The Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7th are no doubt a spectre on life in Israel, but as close to 10% of Gaza's population now lies dead, the USA and IDF's excuses for its actions have run more than thin.
if the IDF truly cared for those kidnapped in 2023, I'd advise a better strategy that shooting three of them dead themselves.
With entire towns in Gaza now flattened, diplomatic jargon about 'protecting the hostages' is nothing more than a cover story for Israel's real aim - the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. Indeed, if the IDF truly cared for those kidnapped in 2023, I'd advise a better strategy that shooting three of them dead themselves.
The UN's abject failure to act would be reminiscent of its predecessor's - the league of nations' - negligence as Imperial Japanese troops raped and murdered their way through China in 1937, were it not for the USA and UK being the primary cause for Israel's continued impunity on the international stage.
Successive governments in the UK have allowed bloodshed to continue unimpeded. Sure, Starmer may talk a tougher game than Sunak - arms sales have been reduced, ICC arrest warrants acknowledged and a ceasefire voted for in the UN - but when F-35 fighter jets, built using British components sold under a Labour government, are still raining hell on Palestine, what does it matter?
Britain and the USA hold disproportionate power in the UN due to their security council veto powers...
Britain and the USA hold disproportionate power in the UN due to their security council veto powers, echoing the archaic 1945 power structures that the global body was founded under. While the empires of old may be gone, they still exert their power on the Middle East through ally Israel.
The actions of the US, and the UK in recent months are no different from when Russia blocks a UN resolution on Ukraine.
Therefore, it may come as a surprise that the UK criticised Russia for blocking a resolution on South Sudan, yet were silent as their best buddy the USA continues to facilitate an ongoing genocide, until you realise the mouth that this criticism came from was that of professional blobfish impersonator and foreign secretary David Lammy.
Action on South Sudan is, of course, vitally important. Millions have been displaced, thousands more are dead, but Lammy's statement seems to emerge more from a desire to be anti-Russia, rather than genuine care for those affected. After all, he argued in November 2023 that Israel's bombing of a refugee camp could be "legally justifiable", so what does Mr. Pushover really care for displaced and murdered peoples.
As such, while the neo-imperialist interests of the US continue to hold dominance over UN proceedings, it simply cannot function as a global peacekeeping body.
