This paragraph and endnote from
Fateful Triangle by
Noam Chomsky reminded me that I want to see data on UN Vetos. It would be interesting to see a data visualization of Security Council Vetos... and General Assembly vetos too. Time for another search!! (I've searched before I think, but didn't find anything.. maybe this time)
Israel’s policies in the West Bank, Benvenisti concludes, are “an outgrowth of an imperial concept—‘I want this’—combined with the ability to go about taking it.” It must be stressed again that this “ability” is conferred by lavish U.S. funding, ideological support of the kind described, and diplomatic support; for example, the U.S. veto of an April 2, 1982 Security Council resolution calling on Israel to reinstate the ousted elected mayors Bassam Shak’a of Nablus, Karim Khalef of Ramallah, and Ibrahim Tawil of El Bireh, recent targets of terrorist attack (see pp. 56f.).* The U.S., which stood alone in voting against the resolution (Zaire abstained), regarded it as “one-sided.”
On the same day, the U.S. vetoed a resolution which “named no names and made no charges.” but “simply repeated United Nations Charter principles opposing intervention in the affairs of other countries and the use of force.” It was implicitly directed against U.S. intervention in Nicaragua, which at that time was still being denied. The U.S. objected to the resolution on the grounds that it “breeds cynicism” and “harms the United Nations” because “it undermines the Inter-American system” and “mocks the search for peace.” The basis for this charge was that the resolution called upon the Secretary General of the UN to keep the Security Council informed about the crisis in Central America and the Caribbean. Observers could recall no previous occasion when one country cast two vetoes on two different subjects at the same session. Those whose sense of humor inclines them in this direction might be intrigued to look back at the learned discussions by distinguished Western anthropologists on Russian vetoes in the early days of the UN, when the U.S. dominated the organization; the explanation offered was
that Russian negativism resulted from the practice of swaddling infants, “diaperology,” as the theory was called by the occasional skeptics.
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UNVetos
![A screenshot of the bottom part of a United Nations General Assembly Voting dataset from the page at the first link of the post. The annotations mention that "Mexico has voted "yes" the most number of times, followed by the Philippines and <br />Venezuela." and that "The US has voted "no" the most number of times, followed by Israel and the UK"](https://media.mstdn.jp/media_attachments/files/113/124/295/583/650/025/original/5f974f29f08bedb6.png "A screenshot of the bottom part of a United Nations General Assembly Voting dataset from the page at the first link of the post. The annotations mention that "Mexico has voted "yes" the most number of times, followed by the Philippines and <br />Venezuela." and that "The US has voted "no" the most number of times, followed by Israel and the UK"")
![Another screenshot from the page at the first link of the post. This part of the United Nations General Assembly voting data visualization is annotated: "France has voted to "abstain" the most number of times, followed by the UK and <br />Belgium." and "European states, along with the US, Canada and Israel tend to vote "no" or "abstain" on more resoutlions."](https://media.mstdn.jp/media_attachments/files/113/124/298/614/666/327/original/c25394ed7c402a2f.png "Another screenshot from the page at the first link of the post. This part of the United Nations General Assembly voting data visualization is annotated: "France has voted to "abstain" the most number of times, followed by the UK and <br />Belgium." and "European states, along with the US, Canada and Israel tend to vote "no" or "abstain" on more resoutlions."")