I spent new year’s morning on Al-Jazeera English “Inside - TopicsExpress



          

I spent new year’s morning on Al-Jazeera English “Inside Story,” talking about the recent Palestinian moves at the United Nations – the Security Council vote calling for an end to occupation in 3 years. The resolution failed, with only 8 votes, very conveniently for the US because their “no” vote didn’t count as a veto since there wasn’t the necessary 9 vote majority. We talked about the kinds of bribes & threats used to get these kinds of votes (though as Daniel Levy points out, the US & Israeli pressure on Nigeria and Rwanda were hardly important, given that the US would have ultimately vetoed anyway.) And ultimately of course, this set the stage for the Palestinian move, finally, to join the International Criminal Court a day later.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 20:00:58 +0000

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