"Once again the U.S. cynically used their veto to prevent the U.N. Security Council from acting on Israel and Palestine at a time of unprecedented carnage," said Human Rights Watch.
I obviously don’t know, but I can imagine one possible reason is that it’s to try to win favor with Israel.
Israel has a right wing government and those types tend not to like to be told what to do. So if you tell them to do something, they will be less likely to do it.
But if you privately convince them to do it, then they can pretend like they’re the good guys and they came up with the idea.
If it’s symbolic, what harm would it have done to vote yes?
I obviously don’t know, but I can imagine one possible reason is that it’s to try to win favor with Israel.
Israel has a right wing government and those types tend not to like to be told what to do. So if you tell them to do something, they will be less likely to do it.
But if you privately convince them to do it, then they can pretend like they’re the good guys and they came up with the idea.
Ah yes. Surely the secret plan will work this time.