{"id":302364,"date":"2025-09-08T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=302364"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:22:12","slug":"the-uns-hidden-power-to-launch-military-action-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/09\/the-uns-hidden-power-to-launch-military-action-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"The UN\u2019s Hidden Power to Launch Military Action in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>27 Aug 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Former UN speechwriter Mark Seddon urges member states at the United Nations General Assembly to invoke the Uniting for Peace resolution and establish a protective international force to defend Palestinians in Gaza. He outlines how the General Assembly can bypass the U.S. veto at the Security Council by using Uniting for Peace to form a \u201ccoalition of the willing,\u201d capable of delivering humanitarian aid, enforcing a no-fly zone, and protecting civilians. Mark Seddon brings deep insider experience: he served as a speechwriter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, media advisor to former UNGA President Mar\u00eda Fernanda Espinosa, and was Al Jazeera\u2019s first UN Correspondent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EXPOSED: The UN\u2019s Hidden Power to Launch Military Action in Gaza\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dfXWaNb40Fk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 Aug 2025 &#8211; Former UN speechwriter Mark Seddon urges member states at the UNGA to invoke the Uniting for Peace resolution and establish a protective international force to defend Palestinians in Gaza. He outlines how the General Assembly can bypass the U.S. veto at the Security Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[87,865,88,427,884,124,1888,70],"class_list":["post-302364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-unga","tag-united-nations","tag-unsc","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302369,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302364\/revisions\/302369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}