Milei and Paraguay become rare international support for Netanyahu

Only twelve countries voted against, including the micro-states of Tonga Nauru, Papua and Palau. Israel and the US also rejected the proposal, as expected. But the surprise was the vote against by Paraguay and Argentina.

A day earlier, the same UN General Assembly voted on a resolution condemning Israel’s destruction of natural resources on Palestinian lands. 162 countries voted for the text and only eight against it. One of them was Argentina, in addition to Israel and the USA. Paraguay, without explaining, abstained.

Earlier this week, the UN voted on another resolution, this time supporting the Palestinians’ right to self-determination. In total, 172 countries voted for the resolution, including a large proportion of Europeans.

Israel and the USA voted against and, once again, the governments of Argentina and Paraguay followed the same path of rejecting the rights of the Palestinians.

Last week, it was the turn of the government of Javier Milei and Paraguay to reject a UN text that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Only nine countries in the world have adopted this stance,

The series of South American support for the Israeli government also included the vote against by Milei and the Paraguayans to a resolution that declared international endorsement of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA. In total, the resolution had the support of 159 countries around the world.