Massive respect to the Republic of Ireland, the only ones in Europe that has the stones to say what needs to be said.
As for France/Germany/Italy and the UK what a bunch of spineless cowards
In fairness, France voted for the UN Resolution along with Ireland, Belgium; Luxembourg; Malta; Portugal; Slovenia and Spain. Non EU countries that joined them included Switzerland and Norway.
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Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan called it “a day that will go down in infamy,” saying after the vote: “Israel will not stop the operation until Hamas terror capabilities are destroyed and our hostages are returned. … And the only way to destroy Hamas is root them out of their tunnels and subterranean city of terror.”
Frustrated Arab nations went to the General Assembly, where there are no vetoes — just as Ukraine did after Russia's February 2022 invasion because of Moscow's Security Council veto power — to press for a U.N. response. And the United Arab Emirates Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh, the Arab representative on the Security Council, expressed delight at the result.
“120 votes in this kind of geopolitical environment is a very, very high signal of the support for international law, for proportionate use of force, and it is a rejection of the status quo that is currently happening on the ground,” she said.
The 14 countries that voted against the resolution include Israel and its closest ally, the United States, five Pacific island nations and four European countries — Austria, Croatia, Czechia and Hungary, all European Union members. Eight EU members voted in favor." (ABC Website)
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