Email from Trita Parsi, Quincy Institute Executive VP sent 22 March 2024. See below a brief analysis of the American UNSC resolution on Gaza that was vetoed just moments ago by Russia and China

Though the resolution fell short of clearly demanding a ceasefire, Moscow and Beijing nevertheless enables Biden to shift the blame to Russia for the Council's inaction, even though Biden has been the key obstacle to progress at the Council for the last six months. [...] Its support is not directly for the ceasefire but for the negotiation process that the US has been co-leading and whose parameters the US has sought to determine in favor of Israel. [...] During the Security Council debate, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made a critical statement: If Russia puts forward a resolution that does not support the "diplomacy on the ground" - that is, the diplomatic process co-led by the US - the Council will remain deadlocked. [...] This is a direct threat by the US to veto any resolution that doesn't endorse the US diplomatic process and the American/Israeli parameters for a ceasefire. [...] Undoubtedly, Biden's rhetorical shift in favor of a ceasefire is noteworthy, but the devil is in the details.