Who’s actually surprised by this? I said it the other day when the news said the Security Council was going to meet
U.S. demands condemnation of Hamas at UN meeting, but Security Council takes no immediate action
The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting behind closed doors Sunday, with the United States demanding all 15 members strongly condemn “these heinous terrorist attacks committed by Hamas,” but they took no immediate action.
U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood said afterward that “a good number of countries” did condemn the Hamas attack but not all council members. He told reporters they could probably figure out one of them.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, told The Associated Press the Americans tried to say during the meeting that Russia isn’t condemning the attacks, but “that’s untrue.”
“It was in my comments,” he said. “We condemn all the attacks on civilians.”
Nebenzia said Russia’s message is: “It’s important to stop the fighting immediately, to go to a cease-fire and to meaningful negotiations, which were stalled for decades.”
China had much the same message, which is basically saying that Israel should hold off on retaliating for the horrendous attack, which mostly went after civilians, including kidnapping them.
Wood made clear the U.S. is focused on condemning Hamas for “this unprovoked invasion and the terrorist attacks,” and said Hamas must end its “violent terrorist activity against the Israeli people.”
Asked if it wasn’t important to restart talks on a two-state solution and end the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he replied: “There’ll be time for that. The time right now is we’ve got to deal with the hostage taking, the violence that is going on that’s being perpetrated by Hamas. and we’ve got to deal with first things first.”
The Palestinians have had decades to accept a solution, but, each time they are given what they want, they decline and demand more. The Palestinians voted again and again to put groups designated as terrorists by the US State Department in charge politically of the Palestinian area, so, what comes next is on them. What they want is not peace, but, the destruction of Israel. The killing of all Jews. That’s it.
Of the rest of the members, I don’t think any others would stop a condemnation of Hamas. Even the United Arab Emirates, which called the attacks deplorable, and had been working towards peace with Israel.
