A Resolution brought to the United Nations Security Council to force Israel to end the so-called “Occupation” of “Palestine” failed to meet the minimum threshold of 9 votes.
Because only eight countries voted in favor of the Resolution, the United States did not have to exercise its veto.
Two countries on the Security Council voted against the Resolution: Australia and the United States. Eight countries voted in favor of the Resolution: France, Russia, China, Luxembourg, Jordan, Chad Argentina and Chile, and five abstained: the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Korea, Lithuania and Rwanda.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power explained in her speech to the UNSC that the United States was not voting in favor of the “status quo,” but instead voted against a movement to impose a solution rather than achieve one through negotiations.
Power said the U.S. continues to maintain that the only way to bring peace to the area is to achieve a Two State Solution.