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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a victory decades in the making for the Palestinians after years of occupation and war. It was a sharp rebuke for Israel and the United States.
A Palestinian flag was quickly unfurled on the floor of the General Assembly, behind the Palestinian delegation, as the final vote was cast.
In an extraordinary lineup of international support, more than two-thirds of the world body's 193 member states approved the resolution upgrading the Palestinians to a nonmember observer state. It passed 138-9, with 41 abstentions.
UN vote recognizes state of Palestine; US objects
So where exactly are the other threads about the result of this vote? I don't see them. That article from the associated press was released only 40 minutes ago.
Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
]UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state...
You honestly think this is news?
That we dont know already?
That people havnt been discussing all day?
edit on 29-11-2012 by alfa1 because: (no reason given)
Real independence, however, remains an elusive dream until the Palestinians negotiate a peace deal with the Israelis,
izrael didnt bother to check with anyone when they declared independence. They just took land by force.
Whats going on is INSANE.
By izrael's logic, if Palestine were able to bomb and kill the izraelis off of "their" land (which was stolen from Palestinians), then Palestine could simply keep the land, dictate the "new borders" to map publishers and blackmail governments into giving their stamp of approval...
Mandatory Palestine (English: Palestine;[1] Arabic: فلسطين Filasţīn; Hebrew: פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א"י) Palestína (EY), where "EY" indicates "Eretz Yisrael") was a geopolitical entity under British administration, carved out of Ottoman Southern Syria after World War I. British civil administration in Palestine operated from 1920 until 1948. This administration was formalised with the League of Nations' consent in 1923 under the British Mandate for Palestine which covered two administrative areas. The land west of the Jordan River, known as Palestine, was under direct British administration until 1948, while the land east of the Jordan was a semi-autonomous region known as Transjordan, under the rule of the Hashemite family from the Hijaz, and gained independence in 1946.[2]
In 1921, the Zionist Commission was granted official status as the Jewish Agency for Palestine in Article 4 of the Mandate. An offer to create a similar Arab Agency was rejected by Arab leaders of Palestine.
ncreased Jewish immigration and Nazi propaganda contributed to the large-scale 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, a largely nationalist uprising directed at ending British rule. Ben-Gurion responded to the Arab Revolt with a policy of "Havlagah"—self-restraint and a refusal to be provoked by Arab attacks in order to prevent polarization. The Etzel group broke off from the Haganah in opposition to this policy.
The British responded to the revolt with the Peel Commission (1936–37), a public inquiry which recommended that an exclusively Jewish territory be created in the Galilee and western coast (requiring the expulsion of 200,000 Arabs) the rest becoming an exclusively Arab area. Jewish opinion was divided as to the merits of this scheme, but it was rejected outright by the Palestinian Arabs and, in the absence of strong Jewish support, eventually abandoned by the British as unworkable.[54]
In an effort to win independence, Zionists now waged a bitter guerrilla war against the British. The underground Jewish militias, the Haganah, formed an alliance called the Jewish Resistance Movement with the Etzel and Stern Gang to fight the British. In June 1946, following instances of Jewish sabotage, the British launched Operation Agatha, arresting 2700 Jews, including the leadership of the Jewish Agency, whose headquarters were raided. Those arrested were held without trial.
The unified Jewish resistance movement broke up in July 1946, after Etzel bombed the British Military Headquarters in the King David Hotel killing 92 people. In the days following the bombing, Tel Aviv was placed under curfew and over 120,000 Jews, nearly 20% of the Jewish population of Palestine, were questioned by the police. In the U.S., Congress criticized British handling of the situation and delayed loans that were vital to British post-war recovery. By 1947 the Labour Government was ready to refer the Palestine problem to the United Nations.
On May 14, 1948, the Jewish People's Council declared the establishment of the State of Israel,[1] following a prolonged campaign beginning in the late 19th century, when the Zionist movement began working towards creating a homeland for the Jewish people. About 42% of the world's Jews live in Israel today.
Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
]UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state...
You honestly think this is news?
That we dont know already?
That people havnt been discussing all day?
edit on 29-11-2012 by alfa1 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by orangutang
reply to post by boncho
and there were many deals done by the zionistas involving finanial assistance for WW1 and arranging to bring the US into 1 or both wars.
In 1922, the League of Nations adopted the declaration in the Mandate it gave to Britain:
The Mandatory (…) will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion.
Originally posted by sonnny1
Deaths
Rwanda-500,000–1,000,000
Bosnia-110,000
Congo-6.9 million
Syria- 40000 in 20 months
On and On.
edit on 30-11-2012 by sonnny1 because: clear up confusion.
Originally posted by Collective
Originally posted by sonnny1
Deaths
Rwanda-500,000–1,000,000
Bosnia-110,000
Congo-6.9 million
Syria- 40000 in 20 months
On and On.
edit on 30-11-2012 by sonnny1 because: clear up confusion.
Typical of the Israel supporter. No moral cards to play of Israel to speak of so lets make a comparison of other evils to lesson what's really happened here.
Palestine can now move forwards in the international court of law for war crimes committed by Israeli cabinet ministers as well as high ranking military personal who may have committed War Crimes.
If the Israeli accused are innocent they have little to worry about.
Noteworthy if any Palestinian military or cabinet (equiv.) are found guilty of the same good. However this will not in any way reduce the justice that may be required for Israeli War Crimes.
UNITED NATIONS - The UN General Assembly's overwhelming vote to recognise Palestine as a non-member state offers little prospect for greater clout in world politics but it could make a difference in the international courts.
The formal recognition of statehood, even without full UN membership, could be enough for the Palestinians to achieve membership at the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), where member states have the power to refer for investigation alleged war crimes or crimes against humanity.
The U.S. is among nations which do not recognize the International Criminal Court.
LONDON (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu called Sunday for Tony Blair and George Bush to face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for their role in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq
Typical of the Israel supporter. No moral cards to play of Israel to speak of so lets make a comparison of other evils to lesson what's really happened here.
Originally posted by gladtobehere
reply to post by ChaoticOrder
Real independence, however, remains an elusive dream until the Palestinians negotiate a peace deal with the Israelis,
Why?
izrael didnt bother to check with anyone when they declared independence. They just took land by force.
Whats going on is INSANE.
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
In an extraordinary lineup of international support, more than two-thirds of the world body's 193 member states approved the resolution upgrading the Palestinians to a nonmember observer state. It passed 138-9, with 41 abstentions.