Reporting of Federici Studies Center
The United Nations General Assembly has created a vacuum around the USA (and to Israel) for the decision to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Without, but, no practical consequences.
And so, the United Nations General Assembly condemned Donald Trump's decision, who decided to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, recognizing this city as the capital of Israel, with a very large majority: 128 Countries in favor of the censure motion, 35 abstained, solo 9 opposite. The vote has a purely consultative value and the result was predictable, why Trump's move (which also recognizes East Jerusalem as Israeli, which the UN instead considers "occupied territory") it upsets seventy years of international diplomacy.
However, it is equally impressive to note that alongside the USA, at this juncture and on this topic, only Israel took sides (Obviously), Guatemala, Honduras, Palau, Micronesia, Isole Marshall, Nauru and Togo. The last four countries are all Pacific Islands, and three of them are former American colonies. All together these countries have less than 200 thousand inhabitants. Basically, the US and Israel are alone.
Consideration that, but, gives birth to another. The USA and Israel are alone but they still do what they want and the rest of the world seems helpless. It is about the world superpower and the Jewish state, nations whose weight and importance cannot be underestimated. But it's possible that 128 Countries fail to do anything, but absolutely nothing, for decades, about a situation (employment, and in Jerusalem now also the annexation, abusive, of Palestinian territories by Israel) whose contours are, at least in theory, very clear for international law?
More questions, the waterfall. There really is such a thing as “international law”? Indeed, nations refer to it in their political action? There is still an international community, with principles and rules, or only economic and commercial interests survive with the outline of some vague theoretical declaration?
The United States, on the eve of the General Assembly vote, they threatened to cut funding to the United Nations and to review relations with countries that voted in favor of the condemnation motion. In short, they have shaken the dollar club. It's hard not to find it significant.
