According to Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzi, the results of the vote, during which the United States remained almost completely isolated, speak for themselves, and the American veto represents nothing more than “an unsuccessful attempt to stop the inexorable history course.” “The United States is willing to turn a blind eye to Israel’s crimes against civilians in Gaza and ignore illegal settlement activity in West Jerusalem in the West Bank. The goal is to break the will of the Palestinians and force them to submit unconditionally. the occupying power, turn them into servants and second-class citizens, and perhaps completely eliminate them and expel them from their home territory,” Nebenzya said.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called the US veto “unfair, unethical and unjustified” and said Washington was defying “the will of the international community, which strongly supports full Palestinian membership.”
According to media reports, on the eve of the vote, the Americans tried to persuade Abbas to refuse to renew his application for full UN membership, and other members of the Security Council to vote against the resolution. As Axios reported, Joe Biden’s administration did not want to veto it for fear of incurring criticism both domestically and internationally, so Washington tried to prevent the resolution from receiving the necessary votes of nine members in the Security Council for its approval.
At the same time, the representative of the US State Department, Vedant Patel, stated in advance that the United States itself would vote against the document, since Gaza, which should become an integral part of an independent Palestine, is “under the power and influence” of Hamas. And during the Security Council meeting, the deputy representative of the United States to the UN, Robert Wood, noted that Washington still supports the “two-state” solution However, according to Wood, the question of recognition. of the Palestinian state must be resolved in negotiations with Israel and not in the UN.
