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The US resolution was "deliberately misleading" and designed to throw "a bone" to American voters demanding Biden call for a ceasefire. Did the U.S. resolution call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza?
On January 18, 2024, voters promoting a ceasefire in the Israel–Hamas war launched a write-in campaign for "Ceasefire" in the New Hampshire Democratic primary. [1] Since incumbent president Joe Biden had declined to appear on the ballot due to Democratic National Convention sanctions, with allies instead mounting a write-in campaign, advocates of the ceasefire campaign hoped that the ...
In June, the Security Council approved a US-backed ceasefire plan to end the war. Fourteen of the 15 members voted in favor, with only Russia abstaining – the first time the UNSC had endorsed ...
A ceasefire ‘would mean Hamas would win’ — and nothing would change “At present, [Hamas’s] military infrastructure still exists, its leadership remains largely intact, and its political ...
A verbal amendment introduced by Russia reinserting the word "permanent" to qualify the ceasefire in the resolution's first operative paragraph received 3 votes in favour (Algeria, China, Russia), 11 abstentions and 1 against (United States) and therefore failed to pass due to an insufficient number of members voting in favour of the amendment.
It did not receive the required nine votes in the UNSC, only receiving four votes in favor, four votes against, and six abstaining. [2] On October 18, a Brazilian UNSC resolution calling for a ceasefire to facilitate humanitarian aid deliveries and including an explicit condemnation of Hamas actions against Israel, was vetoed.
The vote came as a shock to Israel, which saw its decades-old US ally abstain rather than veto the move, as it has consistently done over the years in its diplomatic backing of the Jewish state.
The resolution was adopted by 14 votes to none against, and one abstention from the United States.Explaining the abstention, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. wanted to first see the outcome of the Egyptian peace efforts, but allowed the resolution to go forward because it was a step in the right direction. [2]