Why Only USA ?

[Malghani]

There is one issue with this: Hamas is an elected government for defense and other purposes by Palestinians. People keep confusing it for a terrorist group; which it really is not. They are acting in defense of the ongoing assault. Another issue is Hamas was created by Israel and Palestine. So why they keep getting marked as terrorists is beyond me. They were created in 2006. No matter how they paint this; Israel is in the wrong.

Israel invades Gaza because it can. Gazans, in the face of an invasion, have no ability to strike back, while Israel strikes forward. Israel has total military superiority, an air force which can knock and then bomb, a navy which can shell Gazans from miles off shore, an army which can roll tanks into Gaza nonstop. Gazans have no army, navy, or air force with which to defend. Israel, as any nation, has a right to defend itself, but it confuses offense with defense. It is on the offensive in Gaza.

Israel, with its overwhelming military strength, is attacking and invading Gaza in violation of international and U.S. law. Its construction of settlements violates the Oslo agreement. Its Central Bank dries up the Gaza economy and blocks payments to Gazan civil servants. Its total control brings the Palestinians to utter subjection and total despair.

Israel can kill, injure, and humiliate Palestinians at will, with impunity, which is exactly what gave rise to Hamas and strengthens Hamas' hold in Gaza, even as the IDF advances. Israel will go door to door in Gaza in the hunt for Hamas, which comprises the government of the Palestinians and is therefore a necessary party to any peace talks. It is axiomatic that if you kill your partner for peace, you will have no partner for peace.

There will be no peace, for now, as Gaza is turned into an abattoir, to collectively punish Gazans for supporting Hamas. Israel, in its attempt to divide Hamas from the Gazans, will actually multiply Hamas' strength in Gaza and elsewhere. Israel may indeed find and kill Hamas officials. But it is not the current individuals who make up Hamas who constitute Israel's deep dilemma, which threatens its long term security. It is Israel's policies which gave rise to Hamas and which, if left unaltered, will spawn increased resistance no matter how many members of Hamas Israel is successful in apprehending or killing.

What is the end game? To cast Gazans to the sea, where they will be met by the Israeli Navy? To push Gazans into Egypt? To eject all Palestinians to... where? This is a question relevant not only to Israelis and Palestinians, but to the entire world.

There will be consequences for this invasion. The cycle of violence will widen. It will draw in friends of the Palestinians and it will affect Israel's allies. In the U.S, as their great friend presses the attack in Gaza, there will be increasing questions among the American people as to whether the $3 billion they give Israel annually is being used to defend their ally, or whether it is buying the U.S. billions of dollars worth of problems because of the manner in which their friend "defends" itself. Since the U.S. is helping to pay Israel's bills, they cannot avoid the consequences of paying the price for Israel's actions against the Palestinians.

Hence the United States is the only country that has no respect for any nation's laws when it regards their

own power. Being a military power and the world police; the United States feels as if it does not have to respect anyone's wishes when it comes to the rights this country has. Thus, forcing its own will on other countries. @Aeronaut @Xeric

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Because they are the global champions of democracy and human rights, and they will bring democracy and human rights to you like they brought them to Iraq.

For a more serious answer, because they are the sole superpower and thus they have the power to do so. What matters in geopolitics is power, and they have more of it than anyone else.

How can they apply their "domestic laws" (for example regarding the Iran sanctions) to other countries, where they have no jurisdiction? Well, their power gives them the ability to do that.

Don't like it? Become more powerful. That's what we are doing.

 

[Malghani]

Because they are the global champions of democracy and human rights, and they will bring democracy and human rights to you like they brought them to Iraq.

For a more serious answer, because they are the sole superpower and thus they have the power to do so. What matters in geopolitics is power, and they have more of it than anyone else.

How can they apply their "domestic laws" (for example regarding the Iran sanctions) to other countries, where they have no jurisdiction? Well, their power gives them the ability to do that.

Don't like it? Become more powerful. That's what we are doing.

Last time i checked USA has to pay a lot of money to China. Technically USA must be or is in the Pockets of China. As far as i am concerned i consider China for being a Global Champion.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Last time i checked USA has to pay a lot of money to China. Technically USA must be or is in the Pockets of China. As far as i am concerned i consider China for being a Global Champion.

Hard power is not just money (and even then, the world still runs on US dollars).

You need military power on a global scale as well.

We don't have that yet, but by 2025 we should be well on our way.

That's our path to power. The Islamic world has plenty of power as well, all you guys need to do is become more politically united.

 

[Malghani]

Hard power is not just money (and even then, the world still runs on US dollars).

You need military power on a global scale as well.

We don't have that yet, but by 2025 we should be well on our way.

That's our path to power. The Islamic world has plenty of power as well, all you guys need to do is become more politically united.

PAK-CHINA Friendship.... I would love China being recognized internationally as a World Power.

 

[shuntmaster]

Hamas Gambled on War As Its Woes Grew in Gaza
World | Anne Barnard, The New York Times

AP

Smoke and fire from the explosion of an Israeli strike rise over Gaza City on Tuesday, July 22, 2014, as Israeli airstrikes pummeled a wide range of locations along the coastal area and diplomatic efforts intensified to end the two-week war.

Gaza City, Gaza Strip: When war between Israel and Hamas broke out two weeks ago, the Palestinian militant group was so hamstrung, politically, economically and diplomatically, that its leaders appeared to feel they had nothing to lose.

Hamas took what some here call "option zero," gambling that it could shift the balance with its trump cards: its arms and militants.

"There were low expectations in terms of its performance against the recent round of Israeli incursions. It's been exceeding all expectations," said Abdullah Al-Arian, a professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar who is now in Washington. "And it's likely to come out in a far better position than in the last three years and maybe the last decade."

Hamas had been struggling. The turmoil in the region meant it lost one of its main sponsors, President Bashar Assad of Syria, whom it broke with over his brutal fight against a Sunni Muslim-led insurgency, and weakened its alliance with Iran. It lost support in Egypt when the Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, was ousted and replaced with a military-backed government hostile to Hamas.

Unemployment in Gaza is around 50 percent, having risen steeply since Israel pulled out its troops and settlers in 2005 and severely tightened border restrictions. Hamas appeared powerless to end the near-blockade of its border by Israel and more recently Egypt. It could not even pay its 40,000 government workers their salaries.

The group was so handicapped that it agreed to enter into a pact with its rival party, Fatah, to form a new government. But that seemed only to make matters worse, sowing division within its own ranks, with some in the military wing angry at the concession, while providing none of the economic relief Hamas had hoped for.

When Hamas sent a barrage of rockets into Israel, simmering hostilities, and back and forth strikes, erupted into war.

At first, when Hamas rockets were being intercepted mainly by Israel's Iron Dome system as Israel hit Gaza with devastating force, the group strove to persuade its supporters that it was having enough impact on Israel to wrest concessions: Its radio stations blared fictional reports about Israeli casualties.

But as it wore on, the conflict revealed that Hamas' secret tunnel network leading into Israel was far more extensive, and sophisticated, than previously known. It also was able to inflict some pain on Israel, allowing Hamas to declare success even as it drew a devastating and crushing response. Its fighters were able to infiltrate Israel multiple times during an intensive Israeli ground invasion. Its militants have killed at least 27 Israeli soldiers and claim to have captured an Israeli soldier who was reported missing in battle, a potential bargaining chip.

And on Tuesday its rockets struck a blow to Israel - psychological and economic - by forcing a halt in international flights. Hamas once again looks strong in the eyes of its supporters and has shown an increasingly hostile region that it remains a force to be reckoned with.

Hamas, Arian said, has demonstrated that "as a movement, it is simply not going anywhere."
But Hamas' gains could be short-lived if it does not deliver Gazans a better life. Israel imposes severe restrictions on what can be brought into Gaza, such as construction materials, because it sees Hamas as serious security threat, and the discovery of the tunnels has served only to validate that concern.

So far, at least 620 Palestinians, most of them, civilians, have been killed, according to the United Nations. Gazans did not get a vote when Hamas chose to escalate conflict, nor did they when Hamas selected areas near their homes, schools and mosques to fire rockets from the densely populated strip. At the family house of four boys killed last week by an Israeli strike while playing on a beach, some wailing women cursed Hamas along with Israel.

"It comes at an exceptionally high price," said Khaled Elgindy, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former adviser to the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah. "When the bombs stop and the dust settles, people might have different calculations about cost-benefit."

It is also unclear whether, when the fighting ends, Hamas will have the same kind of foreign support it has had in the past to rebuild its arsenal or its infrastructure; Egypt, under President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, has destroyed hundreds of the tunnels that were used to bring in arms, money and supplies, and has kept the proper border crossing mostly closed.

There are also some diplomatic efforts underway seeking to force Hamas to surrender its weapons in exchange for a cease-fire, a demand it is not likely to accept.

Omar Shaban, an economist and political independent, sat in his walled garden in the southern Gaza town of Deir al-Balah on Wednesday as shells crackled nearby and said he fervently hoped, but also doubted, that both Hamas and Israel's government would reach for a substantive deal.

"This war will end tomorrow or after tomorrow, we will have another cease-fire, we will have another siege, and Hamas will continue to run the scene," he said.

"Gaza is a big problem for everybody, for Hamas, for Fatah, for Israel," he added, ticking off the list: shortages of water, housing and medicine, a population explosion, growing extremism.

In exchange for a cease-fire, Hamas is demanding Israel and Egypt open their borders to end the restrictions on the movement of people and goods - the most immediate issue for ordinary Gazans. It is also asking for the release of prisoners - but avoiding the deeper political issues of the conflict.

Shaban said that Hamas, confronted in recent years with the often conflicting requirements of its roles as an armed resistance group and a governing party, for once was "being clever enough to demand conditions that are in touch with the people. The people are realistic."

Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas' political wing and a former health minister in Gaza, acknowledged that relations have soured with Iran and the Arab world but said that it could survive.

"I can't deny the difficulty," he said in a recent interview. "But Hamas was active and operating here inside the country before the Muslim Brotherhood was in the presidential palace" in Egypt.

Hamas won Palestinian elections in 2006, but an international boycott prevented it from governing. It returned to power in Gaza in 2007 after ousting the Fatah-led government by force.

Hamas overreached, Shaban said, more than doubling Gaza's administrative budget to more than $800 million - not including the financing of the militant Izzedine al-Qassam brigades.

But as the recent fight with Israel has revealed, Hamas was importing tons of cement - desperately needed for Gazan schools and houses and construction jobs - to reinforce the tunnels it built to infiltrate Israel and hide its weapons.

"They have different priorities," Shaban said of the military wing. "Don't send rockets while we don't have milk for our children."

But, he added, "do we stop struggling with Israel? I believe in peace, a two-state solution, I never liked conflict. But Israel did not leave us anything. What Hamas is doing is partially supported by the people."
© 2014, The New York Times News Service

 

[Oldman1]

The question should be why is many countries abstaining instead of yes.

 

[Malghani]

The question should be why is many countries abstaining instead of yes.

Majority is "YES" But only one country is "NO".... That's why the Question is "WHY ONLY USA ?"

 

[Proudpakistaniguy]

For a more serious answer, because they are the sole superpower and thus they have the power to do so. What matters in geopolitics is power, and they have more of it than anyone else.

Its just their hypocrisy which make us frustrated. Say it loud and clear that we have power and we misuse it because we can. Dont claim to be champion of human rights to ride yourself on high horses and claiming to be civilised but at the same time giving unconditional support to those who slaughter harmless civilians. They should change their definition of terrorism

 

[jammersat]

There are more than 7 million jews in united states and they are everywhere specially in little redneck towns and universities didn't you know? @OP

 

[patriotpakistan]

One doesn't need to be Israeli to be rational and civilized.

Here is some Israeli rationality and civility:

Yep, everything looks very rational and civilised here.

 

[BDforever]

One doesn't need to be Israeli to be rational and civilized.

i know need to be indian

 

[patriotpakistan]

Read the entire article and then comment, don't abuse me by calling ISRAELI... I am a proud PAKISTANI...

Not you my friend. Please look at the article I quoted. It was the Israeli porpaganda article posted by shutmaster in reply to yours.

 

[LeveragedBuyout]

The US voted no because the HRC is dominated by the OIC, and thus renders itself a joke.

The joke will end when the UN is out of the US, and the US is out of the UN, which can't come soon enough.

 

[Malghani]

The US voted no because the HRC is dominated by the OIC, and thus renders itself a joke.

The joke will end when the UN is out of the US, and the US is out of the UN, which can't come soon enough.

You mean it's impossible. The Joke is never gonna be over untill and unless USA is no more a World Power