Did you know that Washington had used its veto 32 times to shield Israel from critical draft resolutions between 1972 and 1997? This constituted nearly half of the total of 69 U.S. vetoes cast since the founding of the U.N!

Did you also know that during the period between 1967 and 2000, Iraq was the subject of 69 Security Council resolutions but by comparison, Israel, Washington’s closest ally in the Middle East, has been the subject of 138 resolutions? Not surprisingly, most of those resolutions call upon Israel to comply with basic principles of international law embodied by the UN Charter. Many of them condemn actions taken by Israel and call upon Israel on more than one occasion to comply with previous resolutions that Israel ignored and continues to ignore to this day.

And we all know that the mother of all resolutions is Resolution 242 requiring Israel to withdraw from occupied territories arising from the 1967 conflict. It has been 39 years since resolution 242 was passed and we are still waiting.

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