Security Council veto more than forty times to block resolutions critical of Israel.
With its Security Council veto, China would be a major asset to Israel in its bid to neutralize the UN-centered international community's campaign to delegitimize its right to exist.
Worse still, the US has refused to announce whether it will use its Security Council veto to block a referral of Israel's military and political leaders to the International Criminal Court.
With automatic majorities in nearly every UN body, the most obvious impediment to the Palestinians' bid to criminalize Israel and thus bring about its international isolation is the US's Security Council veto.
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Since the Palestinians first began using the UN to criminalize Israel in the 1970s, it has been the consistent policy of all US administrations to use the Security Council veto to either vote down anti-Israel initiatives or remove them from the agenda by threatening to veto them.
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Until Obama came along, Israel could afford not to make too much of the fact that its enemies control the UN-led system of international institutions, because it could trust that the US would use its Security Council veto to prevent these forces from causing it any real harm.
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Since the success of the Palestinian initiative is entirely dependent on the US Security Council veto, by acting as he is, Obama is showing that he prefers sacrificing Israel's future viability as a nation-state to standing up to the "will of the international community" as embodied by the UN.
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In December Hun Sen told Asiaweek he favored a court convened in Cambodia with foreign assistance but outside U.N. auspices. (In a small step in that direction, Ta Mok's prosecutors have already sounded out help from France.) Hun Sen also fears that a Security Council veto by China would delay justice.
Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom had sought a new resolution imposing new sanctions on North Korea, but China and Russia -- permanent members of the Security Council with veto privileges -- blocked the way.
How could such action ever get past all five of the Security Council's veto-wielding powers?
In the interim, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the African continent should each have a representative as a permanent member of the Security Council, with veto privilege.
Among the permanent Security Council members who could veto a resolution on Iraq, only Britain has publicly supported the United States.
The council could take up the proposal on Tuesday -- but as one of five permanent members of the Security Council, Russia could veto any resolution.
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Saddam's so-called "unconditional" acceptance of inspections will enable his friends in the Security Council (notably, veto-wielding Russia, China and France) to insist that any resolution now adopted have very different goals.
As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, it can veto threatening resolutions, as it did a year ago (just three days before it secured exploration rights to three more offshore blocks near Ramree).
Security Council, with power to veto any punitive measures against the government in Khartoum.
The first sign of a shift came with America's surprise decision not to veto the Security Council's referral of Darfur to the court in March 2005.
Since the General Assembly will likely approve Palestinian membership even if the US does veto a Security Council resolution, Obama's ability to prevent the gambit is limited.
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In any event, this hand-wringing falls well short of what should be a clear policy statement that the United States will veto any Security Council referral of Israel to the Court.
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Even today, Obama has refused to state outright whether or not he will veto a Security Council resolution later this month endorsing Palestinian statehood outside the context of a peace treaty with Israel.
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This brings us to the US. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's greatest fear is that President Barack Obama will fail to veto a Security Council resolution recommending General Assembly approval of Palestinian membership in the UN.
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We were very disappointed by the veto of the Security Council resolution leveled by Russia and China.
Russia has threatened to veto a UN Security Council resolution on Syria if it is put to a vote on Friday, diplomats say.
But the initiative failed, and in February Mr Obama ordered a veto of a Security Council resolution that would have condemned the settlements.
The Europeans argued that this amounted to America rewriting, through a threatened veto in the Security Council, a treaty which they had already ratified.
Analysts say despite Russia's efforts to continue negotiations, it won't use its veto in the Security Council, and that means sanctions are all but certain.
In March 2011 Russia abstained, rather than veto a UN Security Council resolution allowing the NATO air campaign that ultimately pushed Muammar Qaddafi from power.
Israel knows the United States will use its veto in the Security Council to oppose the declaration of a Palestinian state, should it come to that.
Much of the discussion about this goal has centered on whether or not US President Barack Obama will veto a UN Security Council resolution endorsing such a declaration.
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