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A vote expected quickly on simple text is almost certain to meet U.S. resistance.
Historical failures raise well-founded doubts about the ability of such forces to deal with terror movements.
“There is no change in policy,” a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told JNS. “Secretary Becerra misspoke and was not recognizing Palestine as an independent state.”
Algeria is expected to urge the council to enforce the recent ICJ ruling on Israel’s military operation in the city.
“To maintain its judicial integrity, the court must avoid reacting to every shift in the conflict and refrain from micromanaging the hostilities in the Gaza Strip, including Rafah,” wrote Julia Sebutinde.
The United Nations high court decision is a “gift to the murderers and rapists of Hamas,” human-rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky told JNS.
In addition to complicating Israel’s ability to strike multilateral agreements toward ending the war, rulings against Israel could spur the Security Council to demand a ceasefire, forcing Jerusalem to rely on a U.S. veto.
“The United Nations has completely gone off the deep end,” an Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry staffer wrote.
Israel’s U.N. envoy chastises the Council for finally hearing hostages’ plight last week, only to work to “prevent their release” this week.
The Security Council held a moment of silence for the “Butcher of Tehran,” by whose death the U.N. chief was “saddened.”
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was involved in the 1988 execution of 30,000 Iranian political prisoners.
Members of Congress slammed the International Criminal Court’s decision to seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
