I have always heard it said that problems are not solved by moaning; but, however true the phrase may be, the United States tramples on it, as it does with the UN, which is now using it, and vetoes a Security Council resolution proposal calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
This is the third time in a row that the Biden administration has vetoed a possible solution, albeit incomplete and with fewer elements than necessary, because the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people needs to be stopped in its tracks and the offenders punished more severely.
These are those who bomb and kill, and the financiers and suppliers of weapons to the Zionist Israeli army forces, used disproportionately with the certainty that the U.S. government will not allow any resolution of condemnation, even the very limited one calling for a cease-fire.
Yesterday, 13 members of the Security Council voted in favor of the Resolution, one abstained (United Kingdom), and there was only one vote against -that of the United States-, enough for the international community to be convinced, more and more every day, that lamentations will not solve the Palestinian issue nor put an end to the Israeli genocide.
The same happens at the International Court of Justice, where the resolutions for Israel to be brought to justice for the genocide it commits are filed away among so many documents that show a defenseless UN in the face of what is happening to a Palestinian population that Israel has set out to extinguish.
This time, as on previous occasions, the United States “justified” its veto with the words of its ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who assured that “the project will not achieve a lasting peace, but will prolong the captivity of the hostages held by Hamas”.
Rhetoric that turns into a veto. Veto turned into a crime. Punishment that does not come. Palestinian deaths that keep adding up.