{"id":6135,"date":"2024-09-19T15:43:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2024-09-19T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:43:06","slug":"malawi-votes-against-israel-withdrawing-from-occupying-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2024\/09\/19\/malawi-votes-against-israel-withdrawing-from-occupying-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Votes Against Israel Withdrawing From Occupying Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Malawi, as well as 13 other countries, took Israel’s side in a vote that would determine whether or not they take their military out of Palestine. The vote was proposed by Israel and voted on by several countries in the General Assembly. While 124 countries voted for Israel to remove their troops from Palestine, which would be following international law, 14 voted against it. There were several factors in the decision beyond withdrawing the military, all based on following international law. Palestine was able to win over the majority of votes, but some countries, like Malawi, wanted things to go differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find this article’s information important because it shows how divided some of southern Africa can be. While almost the entirety of Sub-Saharan Africa voted for Israel to withdraw their military for Palestine, Malawi was the only one to vote against it. Although it is strange that just one country would vote against it, because of Malawi’s very strong connection with the US, and the US’s allyship with Israel, it is not surprising that they voted this way. It is, however, confusing as to why Malawi voted so strongly rather than going with abstention. The conflict is not directly affecting their own country, and although they have ties with the US, they have no apparent reason to pick one way or the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following this vote, Israel will be required to withdraw from Palestine. Malawi, I believe, will most likely face some controversy from both their citizens as well as other countries, seeing as they were one of very few who voted in favor of keeping Israel in Palestine. I could imagine more solidarity between Israel and Malawi, as well as a stronger tie between Malawi and the US. Palestine, hoping for the majority to vote in their favor before some of the General Assembly meetings, will hopefully get some of the long awaited relief they’ve been wanting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One way in which the situation between Malawi and their vote to not withdraw Israel from Palestine relates to what we have learned in class is that all of the discussed entities are either global or state actors. Israel, Palestine, and the US are considered global actors. They have a significant impact on global politics, and are part of large, multi-country IGO’s. Malawi is considered a state actor. It is a smaller and less influential country, which is also part of a large IGO. It also shows the conflicts that we have discussed in class, specifically between Israel and Palestine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409190046.html Malawi, as well as 13 other countries, took Israel’s side in a vote that would determine whether or not they take their military out of Palestine. The vote was proposed by Israel and voted on by several countries in the General Assembly. While 124 countries voted for Israel to remove their troops from Palestine, which would be following international… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6136,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions\/6136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}