US blocks Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas from attending UN meeting in New York (www.bbc.com)
from technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to world@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 17:50
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comrade_twisty@feddit.org on 30 Aug 18:06 next collapse

US breaks one of the most important the pillars of the United Nations.

THE RIGHT OF ALL LEADERS TO ATTEND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, this is written in the UN charter and the US agreed to let everyone travel to UN meetings in New York when the UN was founded.

This is an attempt to start the destruction of the UN.

Mrkawfee@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 20:01 next collapse

Even during the Cold War they never pulled a stunt like this. The American regime is failing hard

Squizzy@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 15:43 collapse

No its not, it is doing what America has wanted to do and now what its owners have wanted to do for ever.

Its failing at being decent, it is succeeding at its task to ruin it all.

mrdown@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 21:17 next collapse

I think a big part of UN should be abolish. Just keep the humanitarian, health and culture entities

ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works on 30 Aug 23:32 next collapse

Why would you need diplomacy when everyone has perfectly good guns just sitting at home?

oce@jlai.lu on 31 Aug 16:42 collapse

I don’t think these parts can happen without the main diplomacy part.

mrdown@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 12:04 collapse

You can do diplomacy without the icj, icc and useless resolutions

CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml on 01 Sep 17:28 collapse

the ICC is not part of the UN

3abas@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 01:55 collapse

Eh, good. 2 years and going of active genocide and the UN is completely useless. May something better come from its ashes.

If you still have faith in international bodies like the UN and don’t realize they’re simply pacifying tools to cover for and allow the west to do whatever they want, you’re not paying attention.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 31 Aug 10:58 next collapse

The West can already do whatever they want because the other global superpower has no interest in butting heads with them; they don't need the UN for that.

3abas@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 14:30 collapse

My point was not that they need the UN, my point was that the UN is an ineffective body that only enforces what the West (mostly America) want. They will sanction you into poverty for standing up to them, and they’ll veto every effort to punish genocide they are funding. It’s all a big scam.

0x0@lemmy.zip on 01 Sep 09:42 collapse

May something better come from its ashes.

Don’t hold your breath, such a better version would still require major powers to concede and no major power would join without veto capabilities.
We need alien ovelords.

rhvg@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 18:13 next collapse

UN should get the f out of us&a

rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works on 30 Aug 18:53 next collapse

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Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca on 30 Aug 18:57 next collapse

Montreal

FerretyFever0@fedia.io on 31 Aug 02:32 next collapse

It's nobody's fault, but I think we all know, that I won't make it to Montreallll.

mrdown@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 11:52 collapse

They were selling palestinian land in a synaguoge in montreal

commediaportal.ca/…/montreal-real-estate-event-se…

FerretyFever0@fedia.io on 30 Aug 18:59 next collapse

Paris? Really? Give it to Ireland, they're neutral, right? (Idk anything about Ireland, I just don't think France woukd be a good idea). Have it move depending on the year.

rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works on 30 Aug 19:03 next collapse

I’ve only seen pictures but it would look much cooler in Paris. Rather than what, Dublin? What if Belfast got it? Then the br*tish would control it. I’d rather have the French, I think.

FerretyFever0@fedia.io on 30 Aug 19:17 collapse

Aesthetics are your main concern? Cmon. Let's compromise, Italy.

SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social on 30 Aug 20:34 next collapse

Use Epstein island, that would irritate Trump so hard.

rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works on 30 Aug 20:43 collapse

Ugh, only if the Germans run it.

thejml@sh.itjust.works on 30 Aug 23:26 next collapse

Like the Olympics, they have to build a new building complex each time it moves.

FerretyFever0@fedia.io on 31 Aug 01:24 collapse

Sure, change the headquarters every half decade, make them nice, but not too fancy. Then the city is left with a nice building after the country's term is up. Or they could use existing buildings. Only countries that enforce the UN list of human rights can host. Other ideas include a manmade island in the middle of an ocean, Antarctica, and the Moon.

reddit_sux@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 08:57 collapse

Keep it in Antarctica.

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca on 31 Aug 03:11 collapse

Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland?

FerretyFever0@fedia.io on 31 Aug 13:25 collapse

Republic of Ireland, don't be silly.

M0oP0o@mander.xyz on 01 Sep 17:22 collapse

Next we need to pick which Korea will host a global summit…

icelimit@lemmy.ml on 01 Sep 08:47 collapse

Put it in the country most known for their riots? None of the delegates would ever make it to a meeting.

JoeKrogan@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 19:46 next collapse

There is already a UN building in Geneva. Make that the primary one .

…wikipedia.org/…/United_Nations_Office_at_Geneva

mrdown@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 20:46 next collapse

Must be in preparation for disolving the PA for official annexation. No other explanation for this move sgsinst the traitor Abbas

Mrkawfee@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 23:33 collapse

True Abbas is a Quizling who does whatever he’s told. His only use is to legitimise the occupation.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 30 Aug 23:36 next collapse

I can't believe I have to root for Abbas here. Goddamnit Trump.

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Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works on 31 Aug 06:16 next collapse

Trump blocks. Trump.

Fuck this inbred oompa loompa, and every person that helps him. He spreads his disease while a third of America claps and ignores the clear signs of child rape and genocide.

This is a creature, a monster. He is a thing, not a being. A creation of wealth, power, and privilege. He should never have reached such a ripe, demented age.

Our societies have failed us. The United States of America has been compromised.

Uruanna@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 09:40 collapse

Dude, the US has been blocking Palestine and the UN since long before Trump.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 31 Aug 11:46 next collapse

That doesn’t seem fair. Maybe it’s time to move the U.N. to a more civilized country.

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 31 Aug 12:02 next collapse

damn it. I have to side with either Abbas or Dumpy McShitPants? UNFAIR!

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 31 Aug 12:57 next collapse

Move the UN to Switzerland.

Squizzy@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 15:42 collapse

Yeah because the Swiss are so virtuous and have never ever aligned with nazis.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 01 Sep 16:58 collapse

Your comment seems to imply that the placement of the UN HQ and GA is somehow …a reward for a country’s virtue? What kind of silliness is that?

The choice of placement of the UN HQ&GA should be guided by a simple principle: what place in the world is stable enough, neutral enough and independent from external pressure enough to be the place where representatives of all the countries in the globe, regardless of whether they are good or bad or «good» or «bad» can reliably meet without hindrance under a flag of truce.

It’s a fucking practical question not a moral one.

tim@infosec.pub on 01 Sep 17:03 collapse

Ya as much as I hate the Swiss for being neutral throughout all conflicts and rarely picking sides, they’ve become rather well known for being neutral throughout all conflicts and rarely picking sides.

skisnow@lemmy.ca on 01 Sep 09:14 next collapse

Reminder that the US also sanctioned and blocked UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese from entering the country less than two months ago because they didn’t like her reporting.

news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165359

The USA is no longer an appropriate place to host the UN headquarters.

mrdown@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 12:02 collapse

The USA is no longer an appropriate place to host the UN headquarters.

Never been

8000gnat@reddthat.com on 01 Sep 10:12 collapse

time to move the UN