Shockwaves After U.S. Fails to Veto Anti-Israel Security Council Resolution

"White House national security spokesman John Kirby said the Biden administration is ‘perplexed’ by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to cancel a high-level delegation’s planned visit to Washington after the U.S. decided not to veto a U.N. Security Council vote demanding a cease-fire in Gaza.

Monday’s resolution, which passed 14-0, called for an immediate cease-fire during the ongoing Muslim holy month of Ramadan. It also demanded the release of all hostages taken captive during Hamas' Oct. 7 surprise attack in southern Israel. However, the measure does not link that demand to its call for a cease-fire.

Rather than use its veto power, the U.S. abstained from voting. The U.S. has previously vetoed three resolutions calling for a Gaza cease-fire...

Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and president of Human Rights Voices said the Biden administration’s ‘failure to veto this resolution should send shock waves around the United States.’

‘Last week they ‘demanded’ the UN Security Council finally condemn Hamas for the October 7th atrocities - which the Council has never done. The Arab group of states, the Russians and Chinese said no. Two days later the moral backbone of the administration collapses and it allows the third Council resolution since October 7th that fails to condemn its perpetrators,’ Bayefsky said.

She argued that U.S. ‘strength and credibility has taken a tremendous hit – to the detriment of Israel, the Jewish people and America.’..."