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According to @SCRtweets, later this evening the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution calling for an “emergency special session” (ESS) of the @UN General Assembly to consider and recommend collective action on the situation in #Ukraine. 
The draft resolution, tabled by @AlMissionUN and @USUN, is a #unitingforpeace resolution, referring a situation in which its permanent members are deadlocked to the General Assembly. If adopted, it would be the first such resolution the Council has adopted in four decades.
While the General Assembly could choose to discuss and vote on the current #RussiaUkraine conflict independently, the goal of several Council members is to send a strong political signal by pursuing a Security Council. “Uniting for Peace” resolution.
This morning @haaretzcom had this map of #Israel printed, which accurately reflects its borders, not including the occupied #Palestinian territory (West Bank - while including Jerusalem, which it shouldn't have - and Gaza) and the occupied #Syrian Golan.
The outraged reactions to this simple depiction of legal realities demonstrates the extent to which annexation of occupied territory is the norm for mainstream Israeli audiences, not to be questioned or challenged.
It is the same people who reject claims of #IsraeliApartheid, that are happy to admit #Israeli acquisition of territory by use of force, in serious breach of peremptory norms of international law #juscogens under Article 2 @UN Charter.
