The UN recently published a report on Israeli war crimes in its war against Gaza in late 2008. The report recommended that if Israel did not launch a real independent investigation of Israel’s military, then the report recommended that Israel be brought before the international court to be prosecuted for war crimes.
This could have been leverage on Israel to come around to a peace deal with the Palestinians. This could have been used as a stick to get Israel to stop it’s defiant continuation expanding illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. This could ahve been used as leverage to get the Israelis to play ball with a real peace deal.
Now this just hit the news:
The Palestinian Authority, under heavy pressure from the United States, has withdrawn its support for a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on alleged war crimes in Gaza,
Thank you, United States diplomats, for putting pressure on the Palestinians to play ball when the Israelis have zero intention of agreeing to any peace deal. It’s not the Palestinians who are slowly invading Israel’s land. It’s Israel slowly invading Palestinian land.
All I can say is I hope to hell that these diplomats got some kind of concession from the Israelis for this bit of back-room dealing. If not, then the US is really not interested in peace in the middle east, the US is acting as a blind supporter of Israel and throwing its weight around internationally to protect Israel.
If anyone knows which US diplomat put pressure on the Palestinians, or what the US got in exchange for this, I’d sure like to know.
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