"Human Rights Watch slams "silence and inaction" at UN Security Council"

[Honeycombe8]

Louis Charbonneau, UN director at Human Rights Watch, just sent the following statement after the US blocked a United Nations Security Council action on Gaza.

“In a now habitual move, the US blocked the Security Council from calling for a UN investigation into the situation in Gaza, sending the message that Israeli security forces’ calculated killings of protesters will come with no cost. The Security Council's silence and inaction will only encourage future Israeli abuses in Gaza and further undermine US credibility by highlighting US double standards as it seeks to mobilize the Council to hold abusers to account in crises like Syria and Myanmar.”

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/gaza-funerals-protests-intl/


Things just keep getting worse and worse. Did Netanyahu pay Trump Org. so Trump would move the embassy there, and step aside as Netanyahu treated the Palestinians, including children, in such a way. This is horrifying, that Netanyahu would do this, and that America is part of it.

Is there not a right there for peaceful protests? Were the protests violent in any way? Throwing things at Israeli soldiers or anything? What precipitated the violence, I wonder.

This is....words can't describe it. Trump is helping to create a Middle East crisis, now.

[The Blue Flower]

1. He's lighting fires all over the world

Intentionally sowing hatred, violence, and chaos. Devoted servant of the father of lies.

[moondust]

2. An independent investigation

might reveal the truth. And the truth may not resemble what Israeli and U.S. propagandists claim it is. Therefore an investigation cannot be allowed.

Same as Russia blocking an independent investigation of chemical attacks in Syria.

[oberliner]

3. The protests weren't peaceful

[Honeycombe8]

4. I thought they might not be. Israel has a zero tolerance policy toward violence...

even small violence against Israel. But their response was shocking, if some guys were just throwing rocks.

If it were me going to the protest, I wouldn't have taken the children with me, knowing how violent it might get.

What a mess. That area is never going to be peaceful.