Posted on 12/31/2014 4:21:32 PM PST by IsraelBeach
By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
New York, New York — December 30 … Lethal, Islamic terror attacks and the potential for a new Middle East war were avoided this evening as the UN Security Council defeated a Palestinian resolution calling for Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories by late 2017.
The UN resolution called for negotiations to be based on territorial lines that existed before Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the Six Day War.
It also demanded that a peace agreement be reached within 12 months.
If a bid for Palestinian statehood was accepted this evening, the world would have witnessed an immediate power struggle between Islamic terror groups Hamas, ISIS and the Palestinian Authority for control of the West Bank with Iran and Syria shooting missiles at Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.
Many Middle East analysts could not believe that Western nations such as France voted for a Palestinian state, not knowing which Palestinian group would be controlling the new state.
Even if the UN draft had received the minimum nine votes in favor, it would have been defeated by Washington’s vote against it. The United States is one of the five veto-wielding permanent members.
There were eight votes in favor, two against and five abstentions. Australia joined the United States in voting against the measure.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power defended Washington’s position against the draft in a speech to the 15-nation council by saying it was not a vote against peace between Israeli and the Palestinians.
“The United States every day searches for new ways to take constructive steps to support the parties in making progress toward achieving a negotiated settlement,” she said.
“The Security Council resolution put before us today is not one of those constructive steps.”
“It is deeply imbalanced and contains many elements that are not conducive to negotiations between the parties, including unconstructive deadlines that take no account of Israel’s legitimate security concerns,” she said, adding that it “was put to a vote without a discussion or due consideration among council members.”
In a brief statement, Israeli delegate Israel Nitzan told the council that the Palestinians have found every possible opportunity to avoid direct negotiations and came to the council with “a preposterous unilateral proposal.”
“I have news for the Palestinians – you cannot agitate and provoke your way to a state,” he said.
The Israeli government had said that a Security Council vote, following the collapse in April of US-brokered talks on Palestinian statehood, would only deepen the conflict.
Israel, which pulled troops and settlers out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, has said its eastern border would be indefensible if it withdrew completely from the West Bank.
Several Western council diplomats told Reuters they had been surprised by the Palestinians’ sudden push to submit a final draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council on Monday and put it to a vote on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Jordanian U.N. Ambassador Dina Kawar, the sole Arab representative on the council, told reporters all 22 Arab delegations endorsed the Palestinian proposal, and the Jordanians and Palestinians would consult immediately on “the best time to cast the vote in the Security Council.”
The US has insisted on a negotiated peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, not an imposed timetable.
Kerry had held a series of telephone conversations over the last 48 hours with the foreign ministers of Britain, Chile, Egypt, the European Union, France, Germany, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Russia and Saudi Arabia. He also spoke with Rwanda’s president and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird called on the Security Council members to vote down the resolution and focus on encouraging negotiations instead.
“Canada fundamentally believes that Palestinian statehood can only be a by-product of negotiations with the State of Israel,” Baird said in a statement. “We have long rejected unilateral action on either side, as we believe it is ultimately unhelpful to the cause of peace.”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement Monday that if the Security Council doesn’t reject the resolution, “we will.”
Netanyahu said Israel expected at least “the responsible members” of the international community to vigorously oppose the resolution “because what we need always is direct negotiations and not imposed conditions.”
Many Israelis want a two state solution. They desire a real and long lasting peace but they do not want another Islamic Jihad controlled Gaza sitting next to Ben-Gurion Airport that would hold the children of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem hostage to mortar and missile terror attacks.
given there are no palestinians and therefore no palestinian territories, good.
There are no “Palestinian territories” nor for that matter a “Palestinian people” - Arab leaders have evrn so stared on a number of occasions. There are Israeli areas that Arabs have turned into terror-tories. The IDF needs to eliminate these.
There Was Never A Country Called Palestine
http://www.targetofopportunity.com/palestinian_truth.htm
If you consider Palestine to be a “Sovereign” and “Independent” country that goes back through most of recorded history as many would have you to believe, then a few questions need to be answered:
•When was it founded and by whom?
•What were its borders?
•What was its capital?
•Who was the President?
•What was its form of government?
•What were its major cities?
•What constituted the basis of its economy?
•Who was the Palestinian leader before Yasser Arafat?
•Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
•What was the language of the country of Palestine?
•What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
•What was the name of its currency and what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, or Japanese yen on any particular date?
•And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
why give statehood to a a bunch of terrorists. Palestinians as they claim themselves to be are stateless because no Muslim Country will take them within their borders as they have no desire to work or care for themselves, Jordan, Egypt have no desire to support a real Palestinian State because look what would happen an influx of people whom have no skills, and ne desires other than to kill. Since 1948 the State of Israel has had to fight for everything Since the 7 days war there is a desire for the Israelis to give up evrything around them because it is believed they took it from others. Gee the Palestinians and others attacked Israel and in the process Golan Heights the West Bank and Gaza Strip were taken by Israel. Gaza Strip has been returned and in the process tunnels for smuggling drugs, and implements have come into these areas for what reason - killing Israelis. the Palestinians want to live in a 7th Century mentality but with some 21st technology. Cannot have it both ways Sharia law and no sharia law side by side.
What dingbat Powers said objecting to the resolution could just as easily be applied to ObamaCare.
“I have news for the Palestinians – you cannot agitate and provoke your way to a state,” Israel Nitzan said.
here here
I might even learn to like Samantha Power after this - that’s MIGHT!!! She has a long way to go but this is definitely a start and not a move I thought she’d take since she takes her orders from YOU KNOW WHO!
This is a big deal.
The world just dodged another bullet.
Miracles are where you find them.
“Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement Monday that if the Security Council doesn’t reject the resolution, “we will.””
In your face, UN!
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