and forcing israeli military censorship of the electronic intifada on the electronic intifada yes and also and other other media outlets and facebook also facebook through the toll submitted to the israeli instructions and censorship and the israeli praised them and now i believe twitter is full of. twitter says they they do remove they've removed a tweet talking about israeli military forces alleging that they posed as humanitarian work. because while operating clandestinely in gaza this is israeli military censorship their israeli censorship military says it could be applied to the israeli media the israeli outlets why it should apply to twitter why it should apply to me for example as editor of a newspaper why it should apply to. the father so why that would have said no we cannot publish the pictures. come on and explain what seems to be suggested is a political act let's go on to the target of donald trump iran yeah. rouhani says sanction may lead to drugs bomb the huge i'm not surprised look what happened to leap year we were warning them all the time that they would be you know

ambassador but both she and israel said this was a moral victory ali abunimah is the co-founder of electronic intifada an independent online news publication he says the failure of this resolution is a huge defeat for the u.s. . this resolution was really just an attempt to weaponize the u.s. against the palestinian people against their legitimate rights and the resolution itself the text was just transparently israeli talking points didn't mention military occupation didn't mention the seas that siege of gaza didn't mention israel daily attacks against palestinians in gaza the west bank so i think the world saw through it and they rightly rejected it is of course saudi arabia the u.a.e. and some others including qatar by the way have been cozying up to israel and its lobby i think we should be fair about naming all the countries involved in that tell the public at least has been trying to mitigate some of the worst effects of what israel is doing to palestinians in gaza nonetheless all these countries have. you know sort of candor stalin or sort of informal relations with israel to a greater or lesse

voted against while thirty three abstained let's bring in ali abunimah he's the co-founder of electronic intifada that's an independent online news publication he joins us via skype from chicago ali so the un has rejected this u.s. sponsored bid to condemn hamas how much will this be seen as a serious blow to efforts by president trump and by israel to sanction hamas. well it was a huge defeat for israel and the united states and of course all their allies the european union canada australia and the other usual suspects who backed this resolution the reliably pro israel block in the un. remember if you look at the numbers eighty seven voted in favor but ninety voted against or abstained so it really was a failure and the israelis and americans had been hyping it up before the vote they were i think quite confident that it would get through and it didn't but this resolution was really just an attempt to weaponize the u.s. against the palestinian people against their legitimate rights and the resolution itself the text was just transparently israeli talking points didn't mention military occupation

but both she and israel said this was a moral victory well ali abunimah is the co-founder of electronic intifada that's an independent online news publication he says the failure of the resolution is significant. this resolution was really just an attempt to weaponize the u.s. against the palestinian people against their legitimate rights and the resolution itself the text was just transparently israeli talking points didn't mention military occupation didn't mention the seas that siege of gaza didn't mention israel daily attacks against palestinians in gaza and the west bank so i think the world saw through it and they are rightly rejected it is of course saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and some others including qatar by the way have been cozying up to israel and its lobby i think we should be fair about naming all the countries involved in that all the puppet at least has been trying to mitigate some of the worst effects of what israel is doing to palestinians in gaza nonetheless all these countries have. you know sort of pander stalin or sort of informal relations with israel to a greater or less