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Live Thread: U.N. Set To Vote Within Hours On Palestinian State Recognition
Reuters ^ | 11/29/2012

Posted on 11/29/2012 10:48:46 AM PST by silentknight

(Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly is set to approve an implicit recognition of Palestinian statehood on Thursday despite threats by the United States and Israel to punish the Palestinian Authority by withholding funds for the West Bank government.

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U.N. set to vote within the next few hours.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: israel; palestine; palestinestatehood; palestinian; unvotestatehood; us; war
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1 posted on 11/29/2012 10:48:54 AM PST by silentknight
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The vote will be broadcast live

http://webtv.un.org/


2 posted on 11/29/2012 10:50:25 AM PST by silentknight
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To: silentknight

As my grandkids say ... big whoop.


3 posted on 11/29/2012 10:50:50 AM PST by RIghtwardHo
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Does this mean Israel will now have a legal party to declare war upon?


4 posted on 11/29/2012 10:52:25 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: RIghtwardHo

It’s a big whoop if they name Jerusalem as its capitol.


5 posted on 11/29/2012 10:55:14 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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This could be a good reason to withdraw from the filthy crowd of socialists, thugs and dictators and let them all move to Paris.


7 posted on 11/29/2012 11:03:21 AM PST by jessduntno ("Socialism only works...in Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they have it." - RR)
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To: silentknight

Not exactly a nail biter.

It’ll easily sail through


8 posted on 11/29/2012 11:05:21 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: F15Eagle

“Has obama announced a seven-year plan for ‘peace and security’ yet?”

As soon as he finishes the back nine.


9 posted on 11/29/2012 11:06:23 AM PST by MichaelCorleone ('We the People' can and will take this country back...starting today.)
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To: GeronL

Can the U. S. veto this?

We’ve vetoed lots of other things. We’ve vetoed many things strictly related to Israel too.

Besides, isn’t this just an elevated status for the Arabs on the West Bank and Gaza, and not full nationhood?


10 posted on 11/29/2012 11:10:38 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and over 60 million Americans still didn't have power.)
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To: massgopguy

If they do, I say give the U. N. thirty days to vacate our soil, at which point the U. N. building will be raised.


11 posted on 11/29/2012 11:12:28 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and over 60 million Americans still didn't have power.)
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To: DoughtyOne

No veto’s in the General Assembly, that would be the Security Council.

This is all symbolic of course, the UN doesn’t have the power to decide what is and what is not a country


12 posted on 11/29/2012 11:13:05 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: silentknight

3 pm, right? I’ll be picking up my son from school but will be anxious to get back!


13 posted on 11/29/2012 11:14:54 AM PST by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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15 posted on 11/29/2012 11:24:22 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: GeronL

Okay thanks. I thought some of the condemnation votes against Israel had taken place in the General Assembly and had been vetoed by the U. S.

Frankly, I couldn’t tell you what does or doesn’t make a country official.

It would seem that 185 or so nations recognizing it as such, and only a few objecting, it would pretty much be a done deal.

After 1948, it’s not really Israeli territory is it?

Come to think of it, didn’t the Arabs on the West Bank and Gaza refuse to sign that agreement? Are all the prior lands still considered one parcel due to that? I don’t honestly know.

If so, Israel would seem to have the final say.


16 posted on 11/29/2012 11:24:32 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and over 60 million Americans still didn't have power.)
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17 posted on 11/29/2012 11:25:41 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Israel should agree to it. Then give them Gaza and move everyone out of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Then wall it off.


18 posted on 11/29/2012 11:36:28 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (George W. Bush is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the modern era.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Living in NYC i can tell you those buildings are pretty ugly.


19 posted on 11/29/2012 11:43:05 AM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: massgopguy

I read that they were going to recognize the 1967 border and then they would immediately declare that Israel is illegally in occupation of the West Bank.


20 posted on 11/29/2012 11:45:36 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Why is the government more concerned about protecting a microbe on Mars than an unborn baby here?)
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