The test of the resolution was based on the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion in July that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory was illegal.

The resolution also calls on member states not to sell arms or military equipment to Israel that would be used in Gaza, the West Bank, and east Jerusalem.

Among the 43 countries that abstained were Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Some 12 of the 27 European Union countries abstained, including Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden.

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 126 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Why list a select 15 abstainers in the summary rather than the 14 voting against? Besides the obvious ones (Israel, US, Czechia), there's Hungary, Argentina, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Palau, Nauru, Malawi, Tuvalu, Tonga and Micronesia.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why do all the Polynesian countries support Israel so strongly?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 months ago

They nearly always follow USA in voting, so Israel gets supported indirectly.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

Cheap votes to buy or bully. Simply too poor to afford a conscience.

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The COFA states are very strongly aligned with the US and pretty much always vote with them. I don't know much about, say, Tonga, but I'm guessing it's a way of signaling cooperation to the US as well.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Besides the obvious Genocide Joe administration countries like Palau, Tuvalu, and Micronesia do not evoke much significance.

Rather I found listing the more mainstream countries still silently supporting israel and refusing to condemn their obvious violation of international law more interesting.

On closer consideration Hungary might be of relevance, since they are allegedly responsible for the recent israeli supply chain terror attack on Lebanon.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

Palau, Tuvalu, and Micronesia do not evoke much significance

Well, that's why I kinda sorted the list by "relevance". Still, you should at least mention top 5-6 opposers if you're going to bother with any abstainers.

[+] doingthestuff@lemmy.world -44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So we're back to genociding Israel again? I feel like no one has a plan that isn't at least a little genocide.

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 months ago

My slopes aren't as slippery, where did you buy yours? I get why you said that, given the tumultuous nature surrounding Israel since it's founding in the 1940's, but the Arab nations said they would cease aggression when Israel did. Perhaps Israel having it's sticks taken away is a step towards a peaceful Middle-East?

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Hamas has already agreed to no longer govern the Gaza Strip, as long as Palestinians receive liberation and a unified government can take place.

During the current war, Hamas officials have said that the group does not want to return to ruling Gaza and that it advocates for forming a government of technocrats to be agreed upon by the various Palestinian factions. That government would then prepare for elections in Gaza and the West Bank, with the intention of forming a unified government.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-07-23/rivals-hamas-and-fatah-sign-a-declaration-to-form-a-future-government-as-war-rages-in-gaza

Both Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a Two-State solution based on the 1967 borders for decades. Oslo and Camp David were used by Israel to continue settlements in the West Bank and maintain an Apartheid, while preventing any actual Two-State solution

Sources

Oslo Accord Sources: MEE, NYT, Haaretz, AJ

The settlements represent land-grabbing, and land-grabbing and peace-making don’t go together, it is one or the other. By its actions, if not always in its rhetoric, Israel has opted for land-grabbing and as we speak Israel is expanding settlements. So, Israel has been systematically destroying the basis for a viable Palestinian state and this is the declared objective of the Likud and Netanyahu who used to pretend to accept a two-state solution. In the lead up to the last election, he said there will be no Palestinian state on his watch. The expansion of settlements and the wall mean that there cannot be a viable Palestinian state with territorial contiguity. The most that the Palestinians can hope for is Bantustans, a series of enclaves surrounded by Israeli settlements and Israeli military bases.

Avi Shlaim

How Avi Shlaim moved from two-state solution to one-state solution

‘One state is a game changer’: A conversation with Ilan Pappe

One State Solution, Foreign Affairs

Hamas officials should be held accountable for all war crimes committed, same as all Israeli officials. That said, there are many parallels between the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Gaza.

In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai, an Israeli, has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video

[–] SirDerpy@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

Ploutocide.

[–] glaber@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why is Czechia obvious?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It is possible none of us will live to see Czechia vote against the interest of Israel as all parties support it and there is pretty much no organized pro-Palestine movement. Israel says we're their top partners in the eastern hemisphere, which means a lot because most countries are in the eastern hemisphere, including itself. At least, aid toward them is not nearly as popular among politicians and citizens as for Ukraine (we have a sizable, well-behaved Ukrainian minority already and took the most refugees per capita at the height of the crisis).

As for why pretty much every politician is either oblivious or bootlicking Israel: see my comment under a post about the shredder escapade 4 months ago

[–] glaber@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the explanation! Such a shame that anti-Zionism is so often conflated with antisemitism

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

What's funny is that lots of people outside Prague are racist and most of them make no effort to hide it. Our nation very much prides itself in dark humor and very few topics are taboo, we even have racial and Auschwitz jokes. However, most people are oblivious to what's happening in the area so even if you made a really good point for Palestine and composed it into a joke, it's not going to resonate with any audience. Maybe university students (though a great deal of them are pro-Israel so you might get cringey faces and boos).