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Originally Posted by Scooby

So why just not vote?!?

I believe thats what the UK did, there is no reason to veto it!

The UK abstained from voting.

Originally Posted by danielf

I think it has more to do with the fact that there is a powerful Jewish lobby in US politics. The US seems to support Israel unless there is absolutely no chance of getting out of it. If they can find an excuse to veto a resolution condemning Israel, they will.

Actually, I think most of the current pro-Israel pressure on the US government comes from the Christian Right. The Bush Administration listens to them as that is where BushCo gets the bedrock of its support from.

But, yes, AFAIK the US has historically vetoed pretty much any UNSC resolution that was critical of Israel.

Originally Posted by Damien

Quite odd though its usually france who love to use their veto

Actually, Russia is the country to have exercised the most UN Security Council vetoes (most of them when it was still the USSR)

2nd place goes to the US, 3rd to the UK, then France, & then finally China.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/data/vetotab.htm

China: 4-5

France: 18

UK: 32

USA: 79

USSR/Russia: 121

Here is a list of all the UNSC resolutions which have been vetoed, & who they were vetoed by:

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security...o/vetosubj.htm