Why Is There Still No UN Motion On Gaza? We Can All Thank The ‘Land Of The Free'
True to form, the United States of America has once again become the main obstacle preventing the passing of a United Nations motion aimed at addressing the genocide in Gaza. In recent weeks, the so-called Land of the Free has used its veto power on two separate occasions to prevent the passing of UN resolutions on the current situation in Palestine, and now it is dragging its feet once again.
Anyone examining the role of the USA in international affairs over the past one hundred plus years will quickly come to the conclusion that the record of that country is not one that could ever be considered a shining example to follow for anyone concerned with life, liberty, or the protection of human rights.
Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Lebanon, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Chile, Bolivia, Grenada, Ecuador, Guatemala, Libya, Panama, Somalia, the Philippines, the Former Yugoslavia, Haiti, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Niger, and Syria - All countries that have been subjected to ‘American freedom and democracy’.
Robert Wood, the USA’s representative to the UN, raises his hand to veto a security council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
This history of subjugation and oppression does not apply only to the international arena. Domestically, genocidal wars have been wrought upon the indigenous peoples of what is now the USA, with discrimination and disempowerment of Native Americans continuing to the present.
Added to this, the Afro-American community in the USA have been subject to open and legal discrimination, with many disenfranchised because of their skin colour; a consequence of Jim Crow laws that mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s. These laws were only phased out officially in the mid-1960s, although many in that community still suffer the legacy of them with systemic discrimination, de facto disenfranchisement and periodic murder by the forces of the state still rampant.
Founded on the genocide of its native peoples and the chattel slavery of millions, this is the country that regularly lectures other states around the world about the sanctity of ‘freedom and democracy’.
This is the country that, along with Britain and a handful of other countries, refuses to back the global demand for a total cessation of hostilities and refuses to approve the deployment UN humanitarian intervention in Gaza.
The USA is a country without shame, it is a country that lacks a single shred of humanity!
If the USA does eventually decide to vote for, rather than veto, a UN resolution on Gaza, you can be sure it will do so only on terms favourable to its Israeli ally, rather than to secure and protect the rights and freedoms of the oppressed and dispossessed - the Palestinian people.