Other world events related to West Asia

Other world events related to West Asia have cropped up in the news as well. If I have the time and energy in the future, I may add some additional commentary on these.  

“UN members back resolution directing Israel to leave occupied territories | United Nations | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/un-general-assembly-resolution-israel-occupied-palestinian-territories   “During the three-day debate, Egypt’s envoy, Osama Mahmoud Abdelkhalek Mahmoud, reflected the frustration of [West Asian] states that Israel was being protected by the US from the legal and political judgments of the international courts.   He said the Israeli occupation, with its settlements and extremist settlers, “would not be viable” if countries that respected international law and the ICJ’s legal opinion decided to boycott Israel and end cooperation.”   The resolution imposes a timeline, and requires the UN Secretary-General to report on interim progress. The debate included the expected statements calling for condemnation of H____ for their actions (made with no acknowledgement of what Israel has and is doing - as set out in ICJ decisions - and thus made as a false equivalence). My nation chose to be on one of the wrong sides (the sideline) of history ...      “Australia abstains from UN vote on occupation of Palestine after ‘disappointment’ with resolution’s scope | Australian politics | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/19/australia-abstains-from-un-vote-on-occupation-of-palestine-after-disappointment-with-resolutions-scope   The comments by our Ambassador to the UN were so disingenuous as to verge on gaslighting the UN - and were certainly condescendingly insulting and offensive to Australia’s voters, many of whom were involved in the anti-apartheid campaigns of the 90s, and can recognise evasive and/or pro-regressive regime BS      As examples:   “Jewish Council disappointed at Australia’s UN abstention, calls for strong international action to prevent Israeli war crimes”   https://www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/jewish-council-disappointed-at-australias-un-abstention-calls-for-strong-international-action-to-prevent-israeli-war-crimes      and   “Albanese government called ‘gutless’ after sitting out UN vote on Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/19/australia-abstains-from-un-vote-on-occupation-of-palestine-after-disappointment-with-resolutions-scope     

“Australia must curb imports from occupied Palestinian territories due to ICJ ruling, UN legal expert says | Australian foreign policy | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/18/australia-icj-ruling-advisory-opinion-israel-palestine-imports-un-general-assembly-vote   Will Albo have the courage and/or ethics to do this? He still hasn’t even appointed the promised anti-Islamophobia envoy ...      

“Fatima Payman singles out Rupert Murdoch as she decries mainstream media’s treatment of Muslim women | Australian politics | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/19/fatima-payman-rupert-murdoch-media-muslim-women      

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“The Sphinx and the Sultan: How Biden’s Bear Hug of Netanyahu Caused Washington’s Near East Policy to Crash and Burn”   https://www.juancole.com/2024/09/netanyahu-caused-washingtons.html   This may lead to an Islamic Alliance in response and as a counter to Israeli expansionism      

“If US senators are openly Islamophobic, what hope is there? | Representative Ilhan Omar | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/20/senators-islamophobic-john-kennedy      

“The US and all nations must respect the UN resolution against Israeli occupation | Kenneth Roth | The Guardian"   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/20/un-resolution-against-israeli-occupation     

 

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• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
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