The UN Can’t Stop Gaza From Being a Hostage to American Power
World/ April 2, 2024
The termination of the Security Council's cease-fire resolution reveals why the world can no longer aim to Washington as the arbiter of a rules-based order.
The ravaged location around the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza, on April 1, 2024. (Omar El Qattaa/ Anadolu by means of Getty Images)
When the United Nations Security Council passed its long-awaited Gaza "cease-fire" resolution recently, the United States squandered no time at all shamelessly minimizing the relocation. If the scale of the massacre in the besieged enclave-- and Americans' prevalent displeasure of it-- had actually pressed Washington into avoiding, instead of banning, the step, United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield ensured to firmly insist, wrongly, that the resolution was "...