US blocks Palestine from becoming full member of the United Nations
by The Independent
The Independent— The US said a Palestinian state could only be established through negotiations with Israel
Egyptian Streets—US Vetoes Palestine Becoming a United Nations Member State. The United States vetoed Palestine’s draft resolution to have full membership in the United Nations (UN), during the UN Security Council on 18 April. Twelve members voted in favor, two (the United Kingdom and Switzerland) abstained, and the United States voted against Palestine becoming a UN member state, which would entail participating in decision-making and voting powers in the General Assembly for resolutions. The US veto is “a blatant aggression” and “an encouragement to the pursuit of the...
FOX News—The US is expected to block military aid to an Israeli army unit. What is the Leahy law?. Israel expects its top ally, the United States, to announce as soon as Monday that it's blocking military aid to an Israeli army unit over gross human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before the war in Gaza began six months ago. The move would mark the first time in the decades-long partnership between the two countries that a U.S. administration has invoked a landmark 27-year-old congressional act known as the Leahy law against an Israeli military unit. It comes as the...
www.theyeshivaworld.com—US Vetoes Security Council Resolution Backing Full UN Membership For Palestine. The United States vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution Thursday that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine, a goal the Palestinians have long sought and Israel has worked to prevent. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from […]