By Reza Javadi
On Tuesday, as the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) convened to call for an immediate ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip, an overwhelming majority of member-states voted in favor of the resolution.
Only nine countries, besides the Israeli regime, voted against the resolution, led by the United States. On the opposite side, 153 voted in favor of the move and 23 abstained.
It came days after Washington vetoed a resolution that also urged an end to the Israeli aggression on the blockaded coastal territory at the United Nations Security Council.
“Look, there is no shortage of rhetoric here in New York, but it’s the diplomacy the United States is engaging in on the ground that made that week-long pause possible,” US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said after the vote.
With UNGA member-states resoundingly voting in favor of the ceasefire in a non-binding resolution on Tuesday, the US again finds itself isolated in efforts to fan the flames of Israeli war on Gaza.
UNGA President Dennis Francis, in his remarks, asserted that there is now “an onslaught on civilians, the breakdown of humanitarian systems and profound disrespect for international law and international humanitarian law” in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Almost 70 percent of the dead in Gaza are women and children, he noted, adding that the world is witnessing an “unprecedented collapse” of a humanitarian system “in real time”.
“We have one singular priority – only one – to save lives,” he stressed. “Stop this violence now.”
US complicity in Gaza genocide
Since the start of the Israeli bombardment of the besieged strip in early October, the US has provided the regime with a raft of weapons, ammunition, and heavy military equipment, including two recent aircraft-carrier strike groups, a Marine expeditionary unit, and 1,200 extra troops.
Top American officials, including President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, have dashed off to Tel Aviv in recent weeks in a show of support for the regime that is murdering Palestinians.
Biden has on more than one occasion declared that he is also a Zionist, backing the killing machine.
Washington has threatened to attack any forces that come to the defense of the Palestinians from other countries in the region, quietly reassuring the regime that it can keep killing with impunity in Gaza.
The deep American complicity in the events unfolding in Gaza has been reflected by the resolutions in the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council respectively, which the US vetoed.
The blatantly open support to Tel Aviv as well as the supply of weapons used against the Palestinians, especially women and children, has only angered people and resistance groups in the region.
For example, after a year-long truce between American and Iraqi forces, the new Israeli war on Gaza and the subsequent genocide triggered a new escalation of the conflict in both Iraq and Syria.
The resistance groups in Iraq and Syria have in recent weeks launched dozens of attacks against illegal American military bases in these countries, telling them to leave the region.
Anti-US sentiment surges worldwide
The anger directed against Washington is reminiscent of the regional turmoil in the post-Iraq war era. Yet, outrage over the carnage in Gaza has caused anti-American sentiments to surge not only in the West Asia region but also all across the Global South.
Washington’s support for Israel amid the Gaza war has turned global opinion increasingly against Americans, according to experts. Across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, people have been mobilizing against both the Zionist regime and the United States, holding protests in front of their embassies.
“Given its history of colonialism, the West has long been seen as a center of exploitation and dominance by many intellectuals, university students, and the educated classes in the Global South,” Dr. Mehran Kamrava, a professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar, said recently.
Washington’s support for genocide in Gaza has triggered massive protests both in the US and in other countries with people holding the Biden administration directly complicit in the genocide of Gazans.
Washington has repeatedly vetoed UN ceasefire resolutions on Gaza, which is in contrast to last year when the US was part of countries that condemned Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine at the UN.
In the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, many people marched on Monday carrying a large banner bearing the names of those killed in the Israeli bombing campaign since October 7.
“We are not numbers,” the banner read in English, aimed at English-speaking people in the West who have been supporting the genocidal war against women and children in Gaza.
“We are against the position of the United States of America when they use the veto two times against Palestinian people,” a protester was quoted as saying in media.
