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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: The United States Vetoes Another U.N. Ceasefire Resolution

The Fox News Rundown

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3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The United States once again vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire to the war in Gaza. The U.S. proposed its own resolution that supported releasing all hostages taken in the Oct. 7th terror attack. The Security Council voted 13-1, Great Britain abstained, on the resolution put forth mainly by Arab countries. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Jonathan Schanzer, Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explains why the U.S. rejected the resolution and what happened to the one suggested by Washington. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Greg Gutfeld. I'm Tammy Bruce. I'm Steve Doosey and this is the Fox News

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rundown.

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Wednesday, February 21st, 2024, I'm Eben Brown. The UN tries demanding Israel stop fighting

0:18.9

Hamas, but the US puts a stop to their supposed diplomatic wrangling.

0:24.0

It's truly Orwellian what is happening at the UN right now that authoritarian regimes,

0:30.7

autocratic regimes, biocratic regimes, non- democracies are really the majority right now and they're drowning

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out the voices of reason.

0:40.5

This is the Fox News rundown evening edition.

0:44.0

The United States this week used its veto power at the United Nations Security Council to curb a

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resolution put forth mostly by Arab states to demand Israel's ceasefire against Hamas in

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Gaza. The United Kingdom abstained from voting. It's the third

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such resolution against Israel that had been pushed aside by the US of the

1:09.2

world body, but it's another illustration, critics say, of the UN using politics, diplomacy, money, and rhetoric against the Jewish state in a body designed to preserve peace but now often managed and manipulated by rogue states.

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The resolution was actually put out there by Algeria.

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Dr. Jonathan Schanser is a senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy's.

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Algeria, of course, is a country that is deeply hostile to Israel.

1:40.0

It's part and parcel of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab League.

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They've been an outlier, I would say, as far as American foreign policy is concerned.

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You know, it's rare that you see this, but it's actually an Arab state that seems

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to be almost more aligned with Iran than it is with some of the moderate states like Saudi Arabia

2:00.7

or the UAE in the Middle East.

2:03.1

But anyway, their call was for an immediate humanitarian

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