US abuses veto power at UN to Israel’s benefit: Analyst
Press TV has interviewed Mark Weber, the director of the Institute for Historical Review, to discuss UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s recent call on Israel to stop grabbing more Palestinian land.
The following is a rough transcription.
Press TV: Looking at the current situation in the occupied territories as they stand, with tensions being extremely high over a 190 Palestinians have been killed at the hands of Israeli forces. Now isn’t this recent land grab, and this is quite a significant land grab, is going to exacerbate the situation?
Weber: It will exacerbate the situation certainly, but it is a reminder of the helplessness of the world in stopping this Israeli which has been going on for more than 40 years now. Sometimes it has been a more rapid and open land grab, sometimes it has been slower and less obvious. But the policy has been going on for many many years in defiance of international law and in defiance of world opinion.
And the statement by the UN secretary general just underscores once again the frustration that people feel all over the world, including top leaders like Ban Ki-moon over this policy.
Press TV: Well, I’m curious, is this helplessness on part of the international community a self-imposed one?
Weber: No, it is largely due to the fact that the United States, over and over, is able to veto, and repeatedly does veto, Security Council resolutions at the United Nations to hold Israel accountable.
As long as the United States gives Israel the tremendous support politically, militarily, economically and very importantly diplomatically, the world is really stymied, because the only real vehicle for holding Israel accountable is the United Nations, where the United States has veto power.
Press TV: Now that Israel is continuing with this land grab policy, many are interpreting it as a deliberate attempt to stoke these tensions. What does it hope to achieve from that?
Weber: Well, Israel is carrying out a policy of slow, steady annexation of the West Bank to make it part of Israel. It wants to, as Israeli leaders have sometimes conceded, make facts on the ground; that is carry out a de facto annexation even while Israeli leaders claim publicly that they support a so-called two-state solution- a Palestinian state. But that is a deceit, that is really not true and most of the world knows that, but because the United States gives Israel the support that it does it is able to get away with this.
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