Chronicle poll results: US abstention from UN resolution on Israel
We asked our readers if the U.S. should have vetoed the U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire during Ramadan and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. Here's what they said.
Last week, the Chronicle asked its readers in an electronic poll the following question: “Should the U.S. have vetoed the U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire during Ramadan and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages?” Of the 276 people who responded, 54% said yes; 42 said no; and 4% said they had no opinion. Comments were submitted by 81 people. A few follow.
The U.S. should veto until returning the hostages is front and center. U.N. resolutions must demand that Hamas release the hostages first so that a cease-fire can happen after that — not the popular version where Israel is told to surrender to terrorists and there’s some “oh, by the way” weak language about the hostages. Hold Hamas responsible for violating international law and human decency first.
President Biden has traded his honor for a few thousand votes in Michigan. Shame on him.
No other democracy in the world has ever received this type of vote from the U.N. Shame on the USA for abstaining and not voting against it!
Poor President Biden. He has to walk a tightrope between doing what is right (supporting Israel against terrorism) and the political consequences of not listening to the far-left of the Democratic Party. He is wobbling and in danger of falling off!
Why should the U.S. compromise its humanity and moral core in the interests of revenge and total subjugation?
The U.S. should have voted “Yes”; this campaign has gone too far.
If the goal is to free the hostages, the U.S. should have supported this resolution.
The U.S. should completely support Israel’s war against Hamas, which is a war to save Western civilization. Civilian casualties are the responsibility of those who start the war.
The U.N. should push Hamas to surrender the Israeli hostages and call out the war crimes of Hamas using Palestinian people as human shields.
The U.S. policy seems to be the beginning of an abandonment of Israel as a key ally in the Middle East. I do not understand or sympathize with what appears to be an ambivalent attitude by American Jewry. PJC
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