The US Imperium Ventures Into Uncharted Waters

While some political “leaders” stare like emotionally crippled deer into the headlights of genocide, a Muslim Australian sportsman sees through the media glare.

Published: 2023-12-14

Updated 2023-12-15: Added a wonderful reference and some text to highlight the UN General Assembly’s use of Resolution 377A (V) to do the SC’s job initiated by Egypt and Mauritania. See the Jessica Corbett republication at Scheerpost.

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Biden Allows Israel to Sink US in Uncharted Waters

In his latest appearance on Judging Freedom Scott Ritter continues his service to the world by clearly describing what is happening on Gaza and the consequences the US will undergo because the regime’s support for it.

Before considering Ritter's plain, and at times emotional, words we can listen to statements made by the Qatari Prime Minister and the Jordanian and Saudi Foreign Ministers included in the episode. That these leaders gathered with united purpose is in itself rare. That which they state leaves us certain that we are in uncharted waters:

Qatari PM: "[We feel there is a] moral obligation toward the international community to stop the killing of Palestinian civilians. It is the first time that I have seen in my lifetime that calling for a ceasefire became a controversial issue."

Jordanian FM: "I'm not sure how deep is the understanding here of what's happening on the ground in Gaza. I mean, this war has broken every record. Largest number of journalists killed. Largest number of hospitals destroyed. Largest number of medics killed. Largest number of UN employees killed."

Saudi FM: "Our message has been very clear. There needs to be an immediate ceasefire. There needs to be a cessation of hostilities. And we need to have immediate access for humanitarian aid."

[The following except from the Judging Freedom episode begins with the US spokesperson vocalizing to the UN. Ignore him. Following are the statements from which the quotes are drawn.]

The west Asian leaders are speaking a truth felt worldwide. This has to stop. This must be stopped.

Stop this violence now

[President of the UN General Assembly, Dennis Francis, during his address opening the extension to the continuation of the tenth emergency special session of the body that last met on 26 October amid the present crisis in Gaza.]

As Napolitano states later in the program, the UN General Assembly had just met and passed a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, with 153 nations in support, 23 abstentions, and 10 against.

[Voting on the UN General Assembly resolution calling for a immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the unconditional release of all hostages. Thanks, Consortium News, for the image.]

This UN General Assembly resolution amounted to the GA doing the work of the Security Council because the US vetoed (with UK abstaning and all other council members supporting) the previous Council ceasefire resolution.

The US made the international political decision to be the sole member of the council to veto a ceasefire which would have interrupted an active genocide.

Genocide on, Israel. 🙄

As was stated on Judging Freedom, we are in uncharted waters. The UN Secretary General has used Article 99 for the first time in his tenure. During those 6 years we've seen wars in Syria and Ukraine, uprisings in "formerly" French Africa, and the continued humanitarian disaster in Yemen, on top of US sponsored coups in at least Kazakstan and Belarus. Guterres felt compelled to use Article 99 to address the Security Council as the UN General Assembly began doing the Council's work. The UN GA’s claiming of the SC’s role was based on Egypt and Mauritania invoking Resolution 377A (V) which states that:

if the Security Council, because of lack of unanimity of the permanent members, fails to exerise its primary responsibility for the maintenance of internaitonal peace and security in any case where there appears to be a threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression, the General Assembly shall consider the matter immediately.

We are in that level of "uncharted".

All lives are equal

Israel, upon the passing of its founding law (or whatever they called it) which classifies all non-Jewish citizens of the nation as second class citizens, was labelled as an Apartheid state by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International along with B'Tselem, a Jewish human rights organization.

Israel spent money buying US legislators to pass State legislation which outlawed support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. They were rightly afraid of it. Equivalent political organising lead to the downfall of the South African Apartheid regime. Every one of those US State laws will be deemed unconstitutional whenever they reach the appropriate court. One cannot outlaw political speech, which is exactly what supporting BDS is. You can't have Citizens United and outlaw BDS at the same time without making the US courts look like bold faced political hacks.

I'd like to ask my US readership a question. Are there any famous US sports players who are taking a stand against the genocide? I ask, because it was the isolation of the South African regime by sporting bodies which lead to the political isolation which then lead to the final defeat of the Apartheid regime. The African National Congress was still listed as a "Terrorist Organisation" by the US at the time of the fall of the regime which echoes the current situation. Lebanon's Hezbollah and Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houtis) are both designated as "terrorists" by the US and are the only non-Palestinian organisations to have actively attempted to stop the genocide by forcing the IDF to do something other than kill Palestinians.

I ask the question because a very skilled Australian cricketer decided that he wished to wear written on his shoes two phrases when he plays for his country in an upcoming international sporting event. Those phrases are:

All lives are equal

Freedom is a human right

Khawaja has been banned by the international governing body for the sport, the International Cricket Council, from having those words written on the spikes of his shoes. Needless to say, his captain and Australia's Minister for Sports support him, seeing nothing controversial about either statement.

Nonetheless, the ICC have put themselves to shame. Khawaja will take the field without those words invisibly hidden on the spikes of his shoes when he bats 80 metres from the spectators in the middle of the Perth stadium.

A Sinking Ship

Israel's current actions will result in the defeat of its white supremacist, settler colonial, Zionist political program. The US' support of that genocide is accelerating the decline of the US Imperium.

As Ritter notes towards then end of the program, Ukraine blew a hole in Biden's ship and Israel is sinking it in these uncharted waters.

Second tier 5-EYES vassals Australia, Canada and New Zealand's political leadership took refuge in a joint public statement when they supported the UN GA humanitarian ceasefire resolution, abandoned ship and boarded a life raft to leave the US and UK on their voyage into the indefensibly reprehensible.

There's only so far a vassal can go.

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Sources

US Losing Allies at UN on Gaza, Joe Lauria, Consortium News, 2023-12-13

Joint statement by the Prime Ministers of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Office of the Prime Minister (Australia), 2023-12-13

UN General Assembly votes by large majority for immediate humanitarian ceasefire during emergency session, UN News, 2023-12-12

US vetoes resolution on Gaza which called for ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’, UN News, 2023-12-08

Gaza: Guterres invokes 'most powerful tool' Article 99, in bid for humanitarian ceasefire, UN News, 2023-12-06

António Guterres' letter to the Security Council invoking article 99, 2023-12-06

UN Members Support Gaza Cease-Fire in Overwhelming 153-10 Vote, Jessica Corbett, ScheerPost, 2023-12-13

Messaging on shoes: Khawaja accepts ICC decision but will 'fight it and seek to gain approval', Alex Malcolm, ESPN Cricinfo, 2023-12-13

Why an Israeli Human-Rights Organization Decided to Call Israel an Apartheid Regime, Marsha Gessen, The New Yorker, 2021-01-2

Scott Ritter： Israeli Slaughter Serves No Meaningful Military Purpose., Napolitano interviews Ritter, Judging Freedom, 2023-12-13

East Jerusalem & Palestinian Territories ｜ Emergency UN General Assembly ｜ United Nations (full), UN, 2023-12-13

Culture

Mary Had a Little Lamb, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble pay tribute to Buddy Guy (from their 1983 album ‘Texas Flood’), Stevie Ray Vaughan, uploaded 2017-01-25

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