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Draft resolution before UN represents important tonal – but not substantive – shift for White House
After months of vetoing other UN security council resolutions in a bid to defend Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, the US has in recent weeks gone on to the diplomatic front foot in New York drafting and tabling its own resolution that will be put to a vote on Friday.
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, says the resolution sends “a strong signal”. But what is that signal precisely?
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