Dear friends,
Majed Bamya, Palestine’s Deputy Permanent Observer to the United Nations, calls out the hypocrisy of the United States’ fourth veto against a ceasefire resolution voted on by the UN Security Council this week. All 14 member nations of the council voted to approve the resolution, but, as a permanent member, the US was able to vote against the effort and fail the motion entirely.
Please take 14 minutes to listen to Ambassador Bamya’s stirring, challenging, heart-wrenching message.
https://x.com/AdHaque110/status/1859307000548688055
My question: “What will it take for the world, what will it take for the US government, what will it take for the churches and other religious institutions, what will it take for civil society, what will it take for us to say, “Enough!” I mean, f…ing enough! I mean, if the US government can’t even support the barest of minimums – a ceasefire – in the face of genocide, then what will it take? As I’ve continued to say, “If genocide isn’t your red line, then you don’t have a red line.”
“There is no right to mass killing of civilians.
There is no right to starve an entire civilian population.
There is no right to forcibly displace a people.
And there is no right to annexation…
This is what the absence of a ceasefire is allowing.”
Michael