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    Craig Mokhiber - The UN Embraces Colonialism: Unpacking the Security Council’s mandate for the U.S. 📂 Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on November 19, 2025, 5:58 pm

    - colonial administration of Gaza

    19 Nov 2025
    https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/the-un-embraces-colonialism-unpacking-the-security-councils-mandate-for-the-u-s-colonial-administration-of-gaza/

    Lede: The Security Council's backing of the Trump plan for Gaza ignores
    international law, punishes the Palestinians, and rewards those responsible for
    genocide.

    ...

    In what will long be remembered as a day of shame for the UN, while both Russia
    and China abstained, they did not use their vetoes, and not a single member of
    the Security Council had the courage, principle, or respect for international
    law to vote against what can only be seen as a U.S. colonial outrage, a
    ratification of genocide, and a flagrant abdication of UN Charter principles.

    The resolution implicitly rejects a series of recent findings of the
    International Court of Justice (ICJ), openly denies the Palestinian right to
    self-determination, and reinforces Israeli regime impunity, even as the genocide
    continues.

    Despite the ICJ's finding that the Palestinian people have a right to
    self-determination on their land, the resolution strips that right away,
    empowering hostile foreign forces to govern them.

    Despite the Court's finding that Gaza (as well as the West Bank and East
    Jerusalem) is illegally occupied and that the occupation must end quickly and
    completely, the resolution extends the Israeli occupation, endorses the
    indefinite presence of Israeli regime troops, and superimposes a second,
    U.S. led occupation on top of it.

    And despite the Court's finding that the Palestinians need not negotiate for
    their rights with their oppressors, and that no agreement or political process
    can trump those rights, the resolution nullifies those rights and assigns them
    to the discretion of the U.S. and its Israeli and other partners.

    Even in the midst of an ongoing genocide perpetrated by an apartheid regime,
    nowhere in the resolution is there a single mention of the crimes of genocide,
    apartheid, or colonization, of the thousands of Palestinians still held in
    Israeli torture and death camps, or of the principles of accountability for
    perpetrators or redress for victims.

    Nor is Israel required to meet its legal obligations of compensation and
    reparations, with that responsibility handed instead to international donors and
    international financial institutions, in what amounts to a multibillion-dollar
    bailout of the Israeli regime. In sum, the resolution guarantees the full
    impunity of the Israeli regime, in addition to advancing its normalization.

    ...

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