The Council met on Thursday to vote on an immediate ceasefire resolution in Gaza that the U.S. vetoed against the wishes of the other 14 Council members.
WATCH: US Again Vetoes Security Council on Gaza Ceasefire
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Russia Says Israel Has Forgotten Lessons of the Holocaust
Russia’s deputy representative to the United Nations told the Security Council on Sunday that Israel is putting “Palestinians in ghettos” and seeks their “complete annihilation.”
UN Vote Was for Palestinian Membership, Not Statehood
In a blow to the U.S., the U.N. General Assembly voted Friday to give Palestine, whose statehood it has already acknowledged, full U.N. membership, forcing the U.S. into another embarrassing veto at the Security Council, says Joe Lauria.
Mansour: Israel’s ‘License to Kill’
At the U.N., Palestine’s ambassador questioned the stance by some countries on Israel’s “right to defend,” saying it is a wrong understanding of history that only starts when Israelis are hurt, Peoples Dispatch reports.