Sean Durns
Washington Examiner, Mar. 25, 2024
“Militarily, Israel has been winning its war against Hamas. Defying its critics who predicted that Jerusalem would get bogged down in a protracted war, the Israel Defense Forces have made rapid advances and incurred far fewer losses than some, including policymakers in Washington, expected.”
The Biden administration declined to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution on Monday that aims to limit Israel’s ability to win its war against Hamas. Washington’s action is short-sighted and counterproductive.
The resolution calls for a “ceasefire” in Gaza. Four members of the U.N. Security Council voted in favor of the resolution, while the United States abstained.
Israel responded by scrapping plans to send a delegation to Washington. This was the fourth attempt in recent days to pass the resolution, with members of the Security Council haggling over its language.
The U.N., which has a long track record of anti-Israel bias, had been pushing for similar resolutions for months.
In October last year, the secretary-general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, even appeared to justify the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre by Hamas, saying that it was the culmination of “years of suffocating occupation.” Guterres had effectively blamed the largest slaughter of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust on Jews themselves — a staple of antisemitic rhetoric.
For months, the U.S. has worked to prevent the passage of Security Council resolutions that condemned Israel or limited its ability to defend itself. That policy is now at an end. And it’s worth asking why.
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