This CNN article has a lot more information and context including who voted against the measure (nine countries including the US and Israel), the practical effects of the measure (new rights for Palestine to sponsor and support resolutions but still no vote), and what can be expected in the near future (a vote in the UN security council on whether to actually admit Palestine which might pass but which the US will veto).
But the administration stopped short of a definitive assessment, saying that due to the chaos of the war in Gaza it could not verify specific instances where use of those weapons might have been involved in alleged breaches.
It's probably less about telling off the UN and more about sound bites / video clips that will play well with his bosses and their political base back home.
Historically, right wing isolationist ideologues of all nationalities seem to cheer and double down when faced with international criticism. They know it's them and their beliefs against the world and they have a fantasy that they can win, right up until an overwhelming number of them die for it.
Israel as a nation is not in a mood for self reflection and definitely doesn't want to understand the hole their digging themselves into.
Sounds like a politically charged nonsense without context. Like 2 years to purchase and deploy a product someone else engineered - sure, I'd expect more. Two years to build a high voltage/current device that is relatively safe for all the brands of stupid the public comes in... Yeah, I sure as hell hope they test and iterate all that engineering before they go to scale. The last thing we need is another idiot attempt to disappear the problems by simply never making a written record, or murdering all the whistleblowers.
I agree as long as the money is actually going toward building out the charging network and not just getting sucked up by corporations like the ISPs that were supposed to improve our network infrastructure.
Although it would be nice for them to let us know what is happening and when we can expect some real improvements. Maybe that info is out there, but I haven't seen it and this biased reporter sure isn't looking to do any real journalism.
It reminds me of people blaming a new leader for the problems the old leader created, as of they can be unravelled and resolved in a time short of several years.
Or the fact the other real estate fraudsters who admitted dont convict Trump of the crime we are also doing!
I can't say nothing will happen to them as I thought, nothing would happen to Trump and here we are.
I also have a biy more respect for giving someone enough rope to hang themselves. If Trump would of been stopped before his presidency, due to all of the reason any previous candidate would of been disqualified. We wouldn't be here either.
Sure!
In summary the political process would of discarded Trump as a candidate before reaching office. For reference there was a politician who dropped from running because he had a weirdish yell played across the air.
Then you have Trump in office, having never divested from his companies, from day one Trump was in violation of a crime. Now here is where the rope comes into play. Trump was playing the gambit of not bring charged while in office which allowed him to believe he could keep delaying the clock.
Now due to his corruption, he has taken down the GOP, that party is slowly imploding, judges, politicians he has exposed the entire grossness of the system.
So short rope, no insurrection maybe... Long rope and it leave a wider wake of destruction. RNC downfall, GOP splitting up...
This post comes just hours after the US joined just 8 other countries—including Israel—in voting "no" in the United Nations General Assembly on a non-binding motion in support of Palestinian full membership of the UN. They can't even vote "yes", or join the likes of the UK and Canada in abstaining, on a non-binding recommendation.
Unlike the US which has totally forgiven Iran for the embassy thing in the 70s which was half a century ago and as we know now embraces them as brothers.
And by contrast the US was inviting the attack on its embassy because they had with the help of the British used the CIA (based out of that embassy) overthrown the leadership of Iran and installed a brutal dictatorship. Additionally no lives were lost in the incident itself.
This is the international law equivalent of barging into your neighbor's house because you hear them having a domestic dispute and in the middle of pistol-whipping both parties stopping to go to their kid's room and shoot her in the leg. Do you think if you were that kid you'd be cool with the person who did that with premeditation 20 years later? 40 years later? Or would you blame them forever for being an unhinged maniac who injured you, gave you a token apology that claimed it happened by accident when you knew otherwise, gave you compensation (but only after they got compensation for you for some damage you did to their yard in a fit you had later while feeling powerless after their violence against you) and has basically shrugged the whole thing off while using their connections to the law to prevent themselves ever being prosecuted and going around the community promoting themselves as the arbiter of decency and a paragon of law and order and goodness and continuing to lie about their deliberate intent.
So why should they forgive and forget what was never fully admitted to? A crime done by a nation that believes itself not bound by laws or convention trying to operate with impunity as the world's unappointed emperor at the end of the cold war.
A nation that within the next 6 years no less went on an adventure through the middle east that left hundreds of thousands dead, millions displaced, illegally invaded another nation in Iraq based on lies, etc. This wasn't a one-off oopsie, this was part of a pattern of behavior. The US has never shown real contrition (which by definition must include admitting it being deliberate instead of trying to obfuscate with lies about it being an accident).
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