The United States has vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine.

The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. U.S. allies France, Japan and South Korea supported the resolution.

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    • Lexi SneptaurEnglish
      241·
      8 months ago

      For some reason this comment helped me relax a bit about this. Wild how slow progress is

      • livus@kbin.social
        5·
        8 months ago

        For some reason

        This is the reason:

        "You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying!

        • Lexi SneptaurEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Very insightful. I’ll be using this in the future. Thanks!

    • Stern@lemmy.world
      91·
      8 months ago

      Somewhat more surprising is the historical king of colonizers didn’t vote in favor of it.

      • Alsephina@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        15·
        8 months ago

        The US supplanted the UK as the de facto leader of the imperial core after WW2, and specially after the Suez crisis.

        The UK can’t afford to antagonize the world by directly voting against international will anymore like the US now can, hence them (and Switzerland) only abstaining.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        5·
        8 months ago

        The British people aren’t that pro-imperialist in general anymore and, while the current government very much IS, I’m pretty sure that it’s almost election time, so they have to be careful about being too honest about it right now…