Originally Posted by Tezcatlipoca

The UK abstained from voting.





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.




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



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