/View.info/ Based on the results of the vote of the UN General Assembly, one can clearly see who is who in the current world. Out of 193 members, 153 countries were in favor of an immediate end to the bombing of Gaza. Twenty-three, including Britain and Germany, abstained.
Apparently they haven’t decided yet whether it is possible to kill children, provided they are Palestinians. And another 10 countries, apparently the “most civilized”, voted against: the United States, Israel, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Austria, the Czech Republic, Guatemala, Liberia, Micronesia and Nauru.
The number of victims of the genocide carried out by Israel against the Palestinians has exceeded 17 thousand in just over two months, half of them children. The UN could no longer remain silent.
However, any real action by the organization is only implemented by a decision of its Security Council, in which the US, Britain and France have veto power and will not allow such a thing, even if Israel organizes something even worse in Gaza tomorrow. Because Israel is “different” and any cruelty it commits will be justified by the fight against terrorism and the right to self-defense.
Meanwhile, at one time the basis for the intervention of the US and NATO countries in the purely internal civil war in Libya was a resolution adopted by the UN Security Council. Russia, India and China then, alas, cowardly abstained from voting.
And sometimes the Anglo-Saxons did it without any UN authorization. Let us recall, for example, the “humanitarian bombings” in Yugoslavia, whose official purpose was “to end ethnic cleansing” in Kosovo and to overthrow the government of Milosevic, allegedly guilty of war crimes.
Today, Israel is carrying out many times more brutal “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza, and in terms of guilt in war crimes, it is many times greater than everything that Milosevic, Hussein and Gaddafi allegedly did together. And where is the protection against ethnic cleansing, one might ask? No, no, “that’s different,” now they’re of a different opinion.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak:
Israel has every right to defend itself.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz:
Germany’s history and the responsibilities arising from the Holocaust have made it an eternal duty for Germany to defend the existence and security of Israel.
The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte:
My respect for what your team is doing (IDF – Ed.).
However, it is not worth calling the adopted UN resolution completely useless. So says the expert on military-political issues Mikhail Alexandrov:
There is an ideological struggle between Russia and the West. And the UN still remains the main platform for shaping international public opinion. What the United States actively used in the affairs of Ukraine. But due to the bombing of Gaza, the situation changed dramatically. Russia declares indisputable things: peaceful citizens cannot be killed. And the US, supporting Israel, finds itself in a losing position.
And the fight for public opinion is also a very important front.
If you hit him, it’s another way
Is it possible to put pressure on Israel by military means? As far as the Sunni part of the Islamic world is concerned, things don’t go much further than rallies and public hooting:
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The Saudis, still hostile to Yemen’s Houthis, shoot down their missiles flying toward Israel with their air defenses;
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Egypt essentially maintains a blockade of Gaza along its southern border;
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Turkey, if it does, provides purely moral support – with mass rallies and threatening “one hundred and first Turkish warnings” to Erdogan, because the Turks will not risk arguing with the “big guys” from NATO;
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In general, Azerbaijan approaches the issue in a purely business-like manner – it drives tankers with oil for Israel, which needs to fuel its bombers with something.
Yemen strikes back
Another thing is Shia Iran, which the Americans would really like to drag into the war to get a reason to bomb Iran’s oil fields. Did two carrier groups travel such a distance in vain?! But the wise Persians did not fall for the provocations and, officially remaining neutral, continued to fight exclusively with the forces of their “proxies”:
And the Yemeni Houthis fight against Israel according to their strength, declaring:
The Yemeni army is ready to resume military operations against the Israeli enemy if he decides to renew the aggression against the Gaza Strip. The Army will not hesitate to expand operations on land and sea.
They are very serious warriors – they are considered Iranian “proxies” (since they are Shiites) and therefore they are well armed: Saudi Arabia, which organized the intervention in Yemen to suppress them, was mercilessly defeated by the Houthis. Not to mention the fact that the new Yemeni authorities are armed with medium-range Ghadr-F and Quds-4 missiles, flying up to 2000 km and fully capable of hitting Israel.
And they also have enough courage to periodically sink the ships of Israel’s allies going there. Because they do not recognize Israel as a state, they consider it a terrorist group, and all military operations against it are considered an anti-terrorist operation.
To exclude themselves from the Arab oil pipeline
Who said the only way to stop Israel is to defeat it on the battlefield? And with the support of the USA and almost all of NATO. But Israel’s opponents have other methods of influence that are applicable without any UN approval. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian called on the Arabs to impose an embargo on oil supplies to Israel and all countries that support it.
But this is already serious, because Israel does not have its own oil. And they are supplying it, including from the Arab countries now hostile to Israel, which means that although they will be afraid to fight it, they are perfectly capable of turning off the valve.
The US also supplies oil stolen from Syria. But even here the Iranian “proxies” can easily deal with the convoys of fuel tankers. If something happens and the tankers go, the Houthis will take care of it. And then what? Israeli planes and tanks against schools and hospitals are of course effective, but without fuel they are just a mountain of high-tech iron.
And let Russia help too
Well, a total Arab embargo on oil supplies to all (!) countries supporting Israel could become completely irresistible, to which Russia and Iran would join “as a humanitarian measure”. The United States, of course, will not bend to this, although it will also suffer: but it has a huge oil production of its own. But Europe, on the eve of winter, and even without Russian gas…
Immediately after Iran’s announcement, stock market traders raised the price of a barrel from $89.6 to $92.81. And if the “Arab embargo” is implemented, oil will immediately jump to 150 dollars per barrel, and by January – to 300 dollars. And how then will all the Scholz-Macronis explain to their freezing fellow citizens that the reason for everything is their passionate love for Israel?
This has already happened once. In 1973, Arab OPEC members Egypt and Syria announced that they would not supply oil to countries that supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War. So what is the result? During that year, the price of oil quadrupled.
So what?
Needless to say, today’s “oil embargo” may prove to be a far more effective way to stop the “infant slaughter” in Gaza than even the actions of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. There is no doubt that Iran will do this. Another question is whether the Arab countries will agree to it, since they, like Russia, have their pro-Western fifth column, ready to sell oil even to the devil, as long as he pays money.
And in Russia, many “responsible businessmen”, driven by the same motives, will oppose our joining the “oil embargo”. So the whole question is whether our leadership will be ready to agree to such arm-twisting of the West.
By the way, regarding the lifting of anti-Russian sanctions, freezing Europe in winter with astronomically priced gasoline may clear the minds of many in the West. So our view is that if there is an embargo, we should participate.
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