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The UN won’t protect Gaza, but can adopt a ‘Pact for the Future?’

The United Nations has become a parody of itself. As world leaders gathered in New York this week, Gaza, Lebanon, and Palestine were nowhere on the agenda, but a rammed-through US Pact designed to protect the ‘rules-based order’ was right at the top.

The Cradle, Pepe Escobar, SEP 26, 2024

” ………………………………………………………. UN member-states adopted a Pact for the Future, with 143 votes in favor, only seven against, and 15 abstentions. The devil is in the details, of course: who actually designed it and approved it; how did it make its way to the top of the agenda while the world is burning; and why do we smell a (giant) rat?

The UN public relations machine announced, cheerfully, that the “key outcome of the Summit of the Future is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to steer humanity on a new course towards our common future.”………………….

A number of diplomats, speaking off the record in quite bewildered tones, confirmed there were actually no serious prior negotiations and that the Pact was adopted by consensus with a minimalistic group of only seven nations – all from the “jungle” – trying to put up a Resistance, dismissing the prepared text and failing to add last-minute amendments.

Even brand-new UN General Assembly President Philemon Yang tried to do something. The resisters proposed that Yang should postpone the voting until all provisions were agreed – specifically the ones on disarmament and the interfering role of NGOs in the work of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

But the “garden” applied Full Pressure to ram the Pact through, and the resisters came up with too little, too late…………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Gaza who?

Despite the fact that the UN building is hosting the biggest group of world leaders seen together in a year, absolutely nothing is being done about the Gaza genocide and Israel’s expansion of war into Lebanon. This startling inactivity on the globe’s most pressing humanitarian crisis has stunned even “garden”-feeders in the Persian Gulf, who typically cling to US diktats on most things………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… more https://thecradle.co/articles/the-un-wont-protect-gaza-but-can-adopt-a-pact-for-the-future

September 28, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized