A resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) is adopted if nine or more of its fifteen members vote in favor, and if none of the five permanent members (United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France , China) vetoes it.
Since the creation of Israel in 1948 and the Israeli-Arab wars that followed, the Jewish state has been the subject of 222 resolutions. Many of them are of a technical and organizational nature, notably concerning the missions of the blue helmets in the Syrian Golan (UNDOF), the Egyptian Sinai (FMO) and the south of Lebanon (UNIFIL).
Initially little involved in Middle Eastern affairs, the United States will gradually replace the former mandatory powers, France and Britain. After the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel became an unwavering ally to counter Soviet influence. To support it, and ensure the support of the Jewish electorate – mainly Democratic – and the religious right in the United States, administrations, republican like Democrat, defeated a number of resolutions questioning Israeli policy, using their veto power 46 times – out of a total of 86 American vetoes in the Security Council. This almost systematic support does not, however, exclude the adoption of critical or embarrassing resolutions for the Jewish state. Either because Washington votes in favor of the resolution or because it abstains, as in the March 25 vote calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Infographics : Francesca Fattori, Xemartin Laborde, Floriane Picard and Victor Simonnet
Sources: United Nations ; The world
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