The United Nations Security Council met on Friday to debate Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran and Tehran’s response, with the Iranian and Israeli envoys clashing.
Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today.
U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher excoriates Israel for intentionally starving Gaza and shames the rest of the world for failing to stop it.
Israel’s genocidal actions in the West Bank include the denial of basic services, forced displacement, mass killings, incarceration and the destruction of infrastructure.
A legally-acceptable peacekeeping force can only be set up through the auspices of the United Nations Security Council and that would mean both sides of the war agreeing, writes Joe Lauria.
Knowing well in advance that Russia would reject it, the U.S. and Ukraine announced with fanfare that its ceasefire deal was in “Russia’s court” in what was an exercise of pure public relations, writes Joe Lauria.