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womanofthehills

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Mon Mar 25, 2024, 03:58 PM Mar 25

Netanyahu Cancels Washington Delegation Visit After U.S. Abstains From U.N. Cease-Fire Vote

TOPLINE Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a planned Israeli delegation visit to Washington D.C.—as he had threatened to do—just minutes after the United Nations Security Council passed a cease-fire resolution on Monday that the U.S. refused to veto

The U.S. abstained from Monday’s resolution vote, which passed with 14 member states voting in favor and called for a cease-fire during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, as well as the “immediate and unconditional release of all hostages” and access for humanitarian aid into Gaza.

In a series of tweets, the prime minister’s office argued the U.S. had “abandoned its policy” of explicitly linking a cease-fire to the release of hostages, and for that reason, Netanyahu “decided that the delegation will remain in Israel.”https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2024/03/25/netanyahu-cancels-washington-delegation-visit-after-us-abstains-from-un-cease-fire-vote/?sh=3b2b85ca7339

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Netanyahu Cancels Washington Delegation Visit After U.S. Abstains From U.N. Cease-Fire Vote (Original Post) womanofthehills Mar 25 OP
Oh.noes. We shouldn't be sending our taxes money to him, either. marble falls Mar 25 #1
Good. Now would be a great time to tell him to do without our financial support and our weapons. Autumn Mar 25 #2
War monger Netanyahu is determined to invade Rafah and keep the war going... brush Mar 25 #3
Israel doesn't have too many friends left CanonRay Mar 25 #4
Good. Fuck off and drop dead, Bibi. Sky Jewels Mar 25 #5
Count me in as someone who opposed the war from the start. Earth-shine Mar 25 #6

brush

(53,871 posts)
3. War monger Netanyahu is determined to invade Rafah and keep the war going...
Mon Mar 25, 2024, 04:12 PM
Mar 25

to stay out of jail. He's basically asking for a confrontation with the US, Israel's only ally in the region. Now we have a good reason to halt our support of weapons and funds.

 

Earth-shine

(4,044 posts)
6. Count me in as someone who opposed the war from the start.
Mon Mar 25, 2024, 05:59 PM
Mar 25

Killing all the Gazans will not wipe out Hamas.

Peace, waged aggressively as war, is the only answer.

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