The UN security council held a meeting to determine whether to stop the killings in Syria. Russia and China used their vetoes, blocking the UN from intervening. America and the UK have expressed their disgust at this…. which is, at best, hypocritical, when viewed in the wider geopolitical context.

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/britain-and-united-states-condemn-murder-in-syria-but-condone-murder-in-palestine/