Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US used its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire.

Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US became the only member to use its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire resolution, a move welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The UN chief says he will keep pushing for peace.

  • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    719·
    1 year ago

    Isreal has been slowly annexing bits of Palestine for decades.

    They literally haven’t. Gaza’s borders are unchanged.

    • kent_ehEnglish
      122·
      1 year ago

      And what do you call the Israeli “settlements”?

      • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        515·
        1 year ago

        Israeli settlements are literally built on Israeli land. East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights were won in the Six Day War.

        • sfgifz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          93·
          1 year ago

          So… If Russia “wins” parts of Ukrainian territory, it’s all valid?

          • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            In a realpolitik sense, yeah probably. That’s why Ukraine needs to win. Nothing is going to happen to Russia if they crush Ukraine underfoot. Do you really believe something is?

            More to the point, though, the Six Day War was a defensive war by Israel in which other countries willfully abdicated territory for Israel’s security purposes. It was not a war of annexation, so the two are completely different things.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          Note these settlements are on the other side of the Israeli border after the 1967 war, making a large percentage of the West Bank de facto Israeli territory. And it continues to shrink.