The resolution
U.S. Gaza ceasefire resolution vetoed by China, Russia at UN Security Council
[...] This was the fourth time since the war began in October that the Security Council failed to agree on a resolution calling for a ceasefire. This time, the dispute was over the U.S. insistence on linking the ceasefire call to a hostage deal and condemnation of Hamas, rather than the unconditional ceasefire resolution demanded by Russia and China ...
The US's resolution at the UN failed to pass. China and Russia, friends of Hamas, vetoed it. Why? They have their plausible reasons, but I think the real reason is the part of the resolution that called for a release by Hamas of all the hostages. Hamas won't do that.
Hamas will try its best to never release the hostages, not just because they can use them as human shields against an invasion of Rafah, but because I believe those hostages they haven't killed yet have been terribly abused. If those hostages are released and Israel and the whole world sees what Hamas has done, there will be no stopping a final military push to crush Hamas forever.
Meanwhile, some research polls ...
From Pew today: Majority in U.S. Say Israel Has Valid Reasons for Fighting; Fewer Say the Same About Hamas
Months into the Israel-Hamas war, roughly six-in-ten Americans (58%) say Israel’s reasons for fighting Hamas are valid. But how Israel is carrying out its response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack receives a more mixed evaluation. About four-in-ten U.S. adults (38%) say Israel’s conduct of the war has been acceptable, and 34% say it has been unacceptable. The remaining 26% are unsure ....
And just 5% of U.S. adults say the way Hamas carried out its Oct. 7 attack on Israel was acceptable, while 66% describe it as completely unacceptable.
Also, few Americans (10%) think Hamas’ actions will make the creation of an independent Palestinian state more likely than it was before the war. Around a third of the U.S. public thinks it will make an independent state less likely (32%) while 15% say it will not have much effect and 41% are unsure ....
Abd from USA Today a few days ago ... Most Palestinians want Hamas in charge when war ends
More than 70% of Palestinians supportHamas’ decision to launch the Oct. 7 offensive into Israel that started the war, and 59% of them want Hamas to control the Gaza Strip when the war is over, according to a new survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. Only 27% of Palestinians would prefer control by any version of the Palestinian Authority, a plan backed by the Biden administration ...
[...] This was the fourth time since the war began in October that the Security Council failed to agree on a resolution calling for a ceasefire. This time, the dispute was over the U.S. insistence on linking the ceasefire call to a hostage deal and condemnation of Hamas, rather than the unconditional ceasefire resolution demanded by Russia and China ...
The US's resolution at the UN failed to pass. China and Russia, friends of Hamas, vetoed it. Why? They have their plausible reasons, but I think the real reason is the part of the resolution that called for a release by Hamas of all the hostages. Hamas won't do that.
Hamas will try its best to never release the hostages, not just because they can use them as human shields against an invasion of Rafah, but because I believe those hostages they haven't killed yet have been terribly abused. If those hostages are released and Israel and the whole world sees what Hamas has done, there will be no stopping a final military push to crush Hamas forever.
Meanwhile, some research polls ...
From Pew today: Majority in U.S. Say Israel Has Valid Reasons for Fighting; Fewer Say the Same About Hamas
Months into the Israel-Hamas war, roughly six-in-ten Americans (58%) say Israel’s reasons for fighting Hamas are valid. But how Israel is carrying out its response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack receives a more mixed evaluation. About four-in-ten U.S. adults (38%) say Israel’s conduct of the war has been acceptable, and 34% say it has been unacceptable. The remaining 26% are unsure ....
And just 5% of U.S. adults say the way Hamas carried out its Oct. 7 attack on Israel was acceptable, while 66% describe it as completely unacceptable.
Also, few Americans (10%) think Hamas’ actions will make the creation of an independent Palestinian state more likely than it was before the war. Around a third of the U.S. public thinks it will make an independent state less likely (32%) while 15% say it will not have much effect and 41% are unsure ....
Abd from USA Today a few days ago ... Most Palestinians want Hamas in charge when war ends
More than 70% of Palestinians supportHamas’ decision to launch the Oct. 7 offensive into Israel that started the war, and 59% of them want Hamas to control the Gaza Strip when the war is over, according to a new survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. Only 27% of Palestinians would prefer control by any version of the Palestinian Authority, a plan backed by the Biden administration ...
posted by crystal | 12:51 PM
2 Comments:
Unfortunately you could be right about the hostages. I also think it's possible that very few of them may still be alive given the lack of food and lack of medical care that they have been subjected to.
As far as China and Russia vetoing a cease fire, that is not surprising, it's what they do, they don't want peace.
Yeah. Also a bad indication that the Red Cross was never allowed to visit the hostages. Russia did have Hamas come and visit there a few months ago. No coincidence that Russia has also been accused of war crimes in Ukraine and of taking Ukrainians hostage. They are birds of a feather.
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