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Breaking from most members of the UN Security Council on Tuesday, the United States declined to condemn illegal Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank and opposed briefings on Resolution 2334 — the legal instrument affirming the illegality of Israel’s settlement project under international law. This was not an episodic diplomatic choice or a lapse in judgment. It was a routine assertion of power by a state that treats international law not as a binding framework, but as an instrument to be activated or suspended depending on strategic need. What is at stake here goes far beyond moral inconsistency. It concerns the material architecture of global power — the way law, military force, capital, and political legitimacy are organised […]
