You might be excused for not knowing that the United Nations Security Council finally passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on March 26 after the United States abstained from voting.
Almost six months have passed since Hamas fighters invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. More than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli Defense Forces in retaliation for that attack. Nations across the world have called for a ceasefire for months, but the United States vetoed ceasefire resolutions until March 26.
You might be excused for not knowing that the Security Council passed such a resolution on March 26. After all, the Biden administration shipped more bombs and other war tools to Israel since then. President Joe Biden signed legislation that defunds UNRWA, the U.N. agency that provides humanitarian relief and assistance to Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem the day after the resolution was adopted.
The ceasefire resolution came too late for thousands of Palestinians, including more than 100 courageous journalists killed by IDF forces because they were covering the carnage and other inhumane conduct of the Israeli war machine. The resolution is not making a difference to cold, unhoused, starving and war-sickened Palestinian refugees in Rafah.
Judging from how Israel and its allies (led by the United States, Britain and France) are behaving, it is foreseeable that the Israeli war machine will ramp up its genocidal campaign in Gaza when Ramadan ends. Thousands more Palestinian men, women and children will be killed. Those who survive will not be allowed to return to their homes unless and until they agree to the same military occupation that Israel conducts in the Occupied West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet do not care what the Security Council or anyone else in the world thinks or says about its genocide in Gaza, ethnic cleansing, land theft and apartheid in the West Bank, and flagrant support for settler violence against Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. No matter what Biden says about Israel shelling humanitarian aid vehicles and slaughtering workers delivering food to starving Palestinians in Gaza — days after the Security Council’s ceasefire resolution — Netanyahu knows that Biden’s “outrage” is worthless.
What matters is that the U.S. and Israel have thumbed their noses at the ceasefire resolution — and the Security Council itself — unless the Security Council allows them to do as they please, for whatever reasons they choose, to anyone besides the other permanent members of the Security Council (China, France, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom). Politicians and diplomats in Israel and the United States know the Security Council will not sanction Israel for violating the ceasefire resolution. Nor will it sanction the United States for flaunting the resolution by sending Israel additional weapons to kill and defunding UNRWA to starve defenseless, unhoused, sickened and starving Palestinians.
The harsh truth is that the United Nations always has been a stage for diplomatic showboating by privileged nations, not a forum for global diplomacy, justice and peace. People in nations marginalized by imperial capitalism, materialism, white supremacy, fascism and hypocrisy know this is the case. They know the U.N. never has been ashamed of promoting tyrants, bigots, despots and thieves. They also know the U.N. never has sanctioned Israel for violating other resolutions concerning violations against Palestinians for 75 years.
What can we do? Name the hypocrites. Name the warmongers. Name the genocidal actors and their enablers. Declare their names to the world and to future generations. And include the United Nations Security Council.
This is what Palestinians are doing. If we won’t do anything else, we can at least join them in denouncing the Security Council as a sham for privileged nations addicted to settler colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, militarism, bloodlust and white supremacist hegemony.
Wendell Griffen is a retired judge in Little Rock, Ark., where he serves as pastor of New Millennium Baptist Church.
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4 responses to “The UN security council is a sham”
IN 1948 BEN GURION CALL THE UNITED NATION UM SHMUM I DID NOT CARE HE DID NOT CARE THAT THE UNITED NATION GAVE HIM THE RIGHT TO EXIST AS A NATION , WHY SHOULD THEY CARE NOW , THEY NEVER TOCK THE UNITED NATION SERIOSLY , TODAY YOU HAVE THE RESULD
Like America its supporter, Israel is an entity outside the bounds of international law. Not even Nazi Germany dared to act in the same way, they must be destroyed so that the world can live in peace.
Its not the UN’s fault that the USA refuses to abide by the laws of the very world court it established and created and founded itself! All other countries abide by this court but the USA and israel. The rest of the nations of the world can do little about that unless they commit to going to all out war with the most powerful weapon’s and army on earth. That is the bottom line. The UN can only make laws and suggestions. But when it comes to enforcing those laws against the most powerful they cannot unless the rest of the nations that have any power are willing to back up those laws and suggestions with real biting teeth. We need the UN. The UN was never the problem. With out the UN to help extremely suffering people things would be even worse.
U.N. SHAME LESS IMPO TENT PRO STI TUTE COUNCIL .. MANAGED & RUN BY PI MPS ;