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Beastly Boy

(11,353 posts) Wed Dec 18, 2024, 01:49 PM Dec 18

Hostage's brother to UN Security Council: Your silence is deafening, your inaction suffocating

Michael Levy, the brother of Hamas hostage Or Levy, addresses the UN Security Council as it meets for a session on the Middle East.

Levy says in a video message that his family has suffered “439 days of fear, anguish, and an unbearable silence that echoes louder than any words ever could.”

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“Hamas’s actions are not just blatant violation of international law. They are an assault on humanity itself. Holding civilians hostage, men, women, children, is a violation of the principles that this very council was created to protect,” Levy states.

“And yet your silence is deafening. Your inaction is suffocating. For every day this council fails to act, the message to the world is clear. That some lives are worth saving and others are not. “

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hostages-brother-to-un-security-council-your-silence-is-deafening-your-inaction-suffocating/

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Hostage's brother to UN Security Council: Your silence is deafening, your inaction suffocating (Original Post) Beastly Boy Dec 18 OP

What actions can the UN take that will mean a damn to Hamas at this point.... loudly pounding the table? dutch777 Dec 18 #1

At this point? As Michael Levy pointed out, stop being silent about it. Beastly Boy Dec 18 #2

All you have to do is google "what has the un done to help the gaza hostages" Eko Dec 18 #3

If that's all the time you could spare for your research, don't expect it to be taken seriously. Beastly Boy Dec 18 #4

Huh, I found 5 times just this year in a min or so. Eko Dec 18 #6

UN hears, coordinator describes, humanitarian officials appeal... Beastly Boy Dec 18 #8

Yeah, multiple times and they are silent. Eko Dec 19 #9

7 more last year. Eko Dec 18 #7

Mahalo, Beastly Boy & Michael Levy! Cha Dec 18 #5

dutch777

(3,585 posts)

1. What actions can the UN take that will mean a damn to Hamas at this point.... loudly pounding the table?

Reply to Beastly Boy (Original post)

Wed Dec 18, 2024, 01:53 PM

Dec 18

Beastly Boy

(11,353 posts)

2. At this point? As Michael Levy pointed out, stop being silent about it.

Reply to dutch777 (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 18, 2024, 02:09 PM

Dec 18

Something that UN should have done over a year ago and not stop until all hostages are released.

And maybe, loudly pounding on the table is not such a bad idea. Certainly beats keeping quiet to spare the table.

Eko

(8,610 posts)

3. All you have to do is google "what has the un done to help the gaza hostages"

Reply to Beastly Boy (Original post)

Wed Dec 18, 2024, 02:38 PM

Dec 18

To see the many times they have been anything but silent on the hostages. Took 1 second.

Beastly Boy

(11,353 posts)

4. If that's all the time you could spare for your research, don't expect it to be taken seriously.

Reply to Eko (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 18, 2024, 05:16 PM

Dec 18

Considering the effort you put into it, the results are rather expected: a search in which "help" is a key prompt yields nothing but empty rhetoric and no hint of help coming to the hostages in Gaza.

Were you to spend more than one minute and actually look through all the UN Security Council resolutions adopted since Oct. 7, 2023 (https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/content/resolutions-adopted-security-council-2024 and https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/content/resolutions-adopted-security-council-2023), of all the 74 resolutions and hundreds of articles contained in them, you would have only found one article calling for unconditional release of the hostages: (https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n23/359/02/pdf/n2335902.pdf), and one article demanding unconditional release of the hostages (https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n23/424/87/pdf/n2342487.pdf).

That's it. In over 14 months, a single article in all of the UNSC resolutions demanding the release of hostages with no strings attached. That's all UN has done to help the Gaza hostages. Pathetic, even by the UN standards.

And guess what: the hostages are still being held by Hamas as we speak.

Eko

(8,610 posts)

6. Huh, I found 5 times just this year in a min or so.

Reply to Beastly Boy (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 18, 2024, 08:54 PM

Dec 18

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/12/1158341
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-n-coordinator-describes-challenges-of-providing-humanitarian-aid-to-gaza
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/12/1158116
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1153966

That doesnt sound like they are being silent about it.

Beastly Boy

(11,353 posts)

8. UN hears, coordinator describes, humanitarian officials appeal...

Reply to Eko (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 18, 2024, 10:59 PM

Dec 18

And the UN Security Council, the only UN body that decides anything, is silent, with the two exceptions I described above, as I described them.

Show me the resolutions, not media reports about a bunch of officials making noises. That's speaking past the hostages, not for the hostages. Do you seriously think that making noises without consequences represents the kind of absence of silence that gets UN off the hook?

Like I said before, the amount of time spent on your research is directly proportional to its quality. I am not wasting any more time on this nonsense.