US blocks ‘unbalanced’ UN Security Council statement calling for Gaza ceasefire

Published time: November 20, 2012 18:57
Edited time: November 21, 2012 00:16
Reuters / Mohammed Salem

The United States has blocked a Moroccan-brokered UN Security Council call for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Gaza conflict, labeling it "unbalanced."

­“The draft press statement failed to address the root cause of the current escalation – the continuing barrage of rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel,'' the spokeswoman for the US Mission to the UN, Erin Pelton, said in a statement.

He added that the “counter-productive” statement failed to support “the ongoing diplomacy toward de-escalation of violence and a durable outcome that ends the rocket attacks on Israeli cities and towns and restores a broader calm.”

­Morocco proposed the statement last Thursday, and it would have been adopted automatically if no UN Security Council member spoke against it before 14:00 GMT. Security Council press statements require unanimous approval.

Russia said it is ready to propose the full resolution to halt the violence between Israel and Gaza.

Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said that document will focus on putting an end to the violence by a negotiated a ceasefire, support for international and regional efforts to settle the crisis peacefully and a call for the resumption of talks between Palestinians and Israelis on a wider range of problems.

Churkin sharply criticized the way the Moroccan statement was handled by the Council, accusing Western governments of “filibustering” it. He argued that three days was ample time to provide written comments, while Council members only commented orally.

Some say the Russian resolution has little chance of being adopted as it also does not claim that Hamas rocket attacks are the cause of the current conflict.

­Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is in Israel in an attempt to stop the violence as it entered its seventh day. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is also expected to arrive in Israel on Tuesday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and later with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Last week the IDF launched Operation Pillar of Defense to curb Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli territory. The operation began with an airstrike that killed the leader of Hamas’ military wing, Ahmed Jabari. At present the death toll from the conflict is over 120 Palestinians and five Israelis.

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mikael (unregistered) 21.11.2012 14:11

The river of drivel from the fontain of bulls.... and lies, delivered and "executed" by the asolut dumbets, evil phatetic f.... in modern history, druling inside their selfimposed paranoia, created by a mindsett so utterly f... that they have infested avarything sane, with their evrlasrting and allways carpetbomb anywhere with a utterly, and unblemished display of lack in fundamental histroical enevnts.

The Arabs/Semits where unfortain, and that is even more aparent when it is regarding our brothers, the blacks histroy, witch is complelty erazed and forgotten.
The one thing our "education" system is doing, is to learn people to be obidiant slaves, even their mindsett is tuned into Repeating and/or copying, an very good way of dumbing down a human begin.
It can think for a moment for them self, they are even lying to them selfs, how on earth can you/we have a sane conersation, with lunatics.
The real ones.
 
Whom is hustifying for their lifes, the slaoughter of children, and now is whining about casultys in their won land, is it possible to be so d..., to lett the NotthingbutYahoho lead you into Ruin.
And all we gett is drivel along the road.

Wake up Israel, You will loose this in the end.

PS: what happened to the bombing in Bulgaria, anyone.

peace

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Brothers (unregistered) 21.11.2012 11:00

To Ibrahim (unregistered): "Because the jews did mayn more to the world and science then any us could do. Einstein: general theory of relativity, Edward Tellar and the Manhatten Project crew: the nuclear bomb and fissile technology, Zeev Zuraski, Zend Engine .... etc. They did more inventions to human kind then you ever could imagine. So lets blame the jews, they owned it!"  Because of scientific achievements no one has the right to do as they like and be exempt from basic laws of human behavior! Besides Einstein, Teller and others you claim studied in an education system that have nothing to do with Jews, but ofcourse their teachers are never mentioned, nor is Einstein's wife for instance, who helped him a much to develop his theories. Also there are others who commited lot to science, but do not wage war constantly on their neighbours for every injustice they feel.

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American Sheeple (unregistered) 21.11.2012 09:54

The problem is most Americans are brainwashed by the mass media. Speaking against Israel makes one an Anti-Semite or even a Nazi in America. The majority of my countrymen do not understand that Palistinian homes are bulldozed so Jews can build homes and farms on their land. Palistinian neighborhoods are walled and fenced off and the people living in the Palistinian Ghettos are alive at the whimm of an authoritarian racist state. Where did the Jews pick up these practices? They sound alot like what the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe. The Jews of all people should know what they are doing is wrong, because it has been done to them.

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