Posted on 09/01/2011 8:07:56 AM PDT by Former Fetus
Late this month, leaders of the Palestinian Authority are expected to issue a Unilateral Declaration of Independence and ask, in the words of PA Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, that it receive "the blessing of the U.N."
That blessing will not come from the U.N. Security Council: If the Palestinians ask for approval from that body, President Obama is expected to exercise the American veto, though he has not unequivocally pledged to do so. He should -- for reasons I will attempt to explain in a moment.
In the General Assembly, however, blessings almost certainly will be bestowed through the passage of a non-binding resolution. The G.A. has a permanent anti-Israeli (and anti-American) majority. More than 50 U.N. members also belong to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Many other nations are eager to please the OIC's oil exporters -- and not displease its terrorism exporters.
The G.A. does not have the power to grant statehood in any legal sense. Nor can it admit new U.N. members. The idea, as Shaath phrased it, is simply "to exert pressure on Israel."
For what purpose? Shaath's goal, and that of his boss, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, is not what Obama and other Western leaders favor: a Palestinian state and a Jewish state living side by side in peace. On the contrary, as Shaath said clearly: "The story of 'two states for two peoples' means that there will be a Jewish people over there and a Palestinian people here. We will never accept this." Last weekend, Abbasadded: "Don't order us to recognize a Jewish state. We won't accept it."
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What part of this is too hard for the left to understand?
The UN is a “dictator protection agency” ... funding needs to be stopped.
Seriously speaking, the Muslims, all of them need help. Not just the Palestinians. They need something or someone to help lift them from their third world conditions and state of backwardness that the Koran has precipitated.
Here is a grand solution that the UN needs to look at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIEeiDjdUuU
May peace be upon them.
They have been offered statehood before and turned it down. Once they are a state, their daily shelling of Israel is an act of war, they loose the right to hide behind the UN skirts.
That day would indeed be a bloody day, and then, peace. Peace is only won, never bargained for.
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They have been offered statehood before and turned it down. Once they are a state, their daily shelling of Israel is an act of war, they loose the right to hide behind the UN skirts.
That day would indeed be a bloody day, and then, peace. Peace is only won, never bargained for.
Your comments were an eye-opener - a new part of the madness makes sense now. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
They have been offered statehood before and turned it down. Once they are a state, their daily shelling of Israel is an act of war, they loose the right to hide behind the UN skirts.
That day would indeed be a bloody day, and then, peace. Peace is only won, never bargained for.
Your comments were an eyeopener - a new part of the madness makes sense now. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
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