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To: marcusmaximus; Kazan
What’s a “Palestine”? Never heard of it.

Officially, Palestine is a land unlawfully occupied by Israel. Offcially, Ukraine recognizes the state of Palestine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine

As of May 2024, the State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 143 of the 193 member states of the United Nations. It has been a non-member observer state of the United Nations General Assembly since November 2012.

The most recent nations to recognize the State of Palestine are Ireland, Norway and Spain, and most recently Slovenia.

Ukrainian recognition dates to 19 November 1988. Recognition extended as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, of which Ukraine is the legal successor. The modern republic continues all "rights and duties pursuant to international agreements of Union SSR which do not contradict the Constitution of Ukraine and interests of the Republic".

Also:

On 29 November 2012, in a 138–9 vote (with 41 abstaining) General Assembly resolution 67/19 passed, upgrading Palestine to "non-member observer state" status in the United Nations. The new status equated Palestine's with that of the Holy See. The change in status was described by The Independent as "de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine". Voting "no" were Israel, Canada, the Czech Republic, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Panama and the United States.

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The UN has, after the resolution was passed, permitted Palestine to title its representative office to the UN as "The Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations", seen by many as a reflection of the UN's de facto position of recognizing the State of Palestine's sovereignty under international law, and Palestine started to re-title its name accordingly on postal stamps, official documents and passports. The Palestinian authorities also instructed its diplomats to officially represent the "State of Palestine", as opposed to the "Palestine National Authority". Additionally, on 17 December 2012, UN Chief of Protocol Yeocheol Yoon decided that "the designation of "State of Palestine" shall be used by the Secretariat in all official United Nations documents", recognizing the "State of Palestine" as the official name of the Palestinian nation.

But with or without the United Nations, nearly three-fourths of the world's nations recognize Palestine as a nation, and less than 5% opposed. Moreover, nations representing the vast majority of the world's population recognize the state of Palestine. These nations include China (1.4B), India (1.4B), Pakistan (235M), Indonesia (275M), Brazil (214M).

Canada, 38M
Czech Republic, 10.6M
Israel, 9.4M
Marshall Islands, 54K
Federated States of Micronesia, 105K
Nauru, 18K
Panama, 4.4M
Palau, 12K
United States 333.3M

The world population is 7.9B. The total population of the opposed states is 404.47M, or 5% of the world's population.

90 posted on 07/08/2024 7:21:56 PM PDT by woodpusher
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To: woodpusher; Kazan; marcusmaximus

“Officially, Palestine is a land unlawfully occupied by Israel”

lol. I guess the USA is a land unlawfully occupied by European migrants?

the REALITY on the ground in the middle east is that there is no such country called Palestine — It is nothing more then a wet dream by anti-semitic, filthball lawyers like woodpusher.

and guess what — There NEVER will be an arab nation called Palestine — but keep posting links telling me how many countries “recognize” it.


91 posted on 07/09/2024 6:37:29 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can't be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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