A change in the membership of the United Nations Security Council once again raises the question of whether or not the Palestinians can muster a ninth vote for membership, which due to Bosnia’s abstention they were never able to accomplish in 2011.
But Bosnia is gone from the UNSC now, and Azerbaijan is replacing it, seemingly a lock to vote in favor of Palestinian statehood. This would be the ninth “Yes” vote needed, but Brazil, also a solid “Yes,” is gone as well — replaced by Guatemala.
In a speech to the American Jewish Committee, US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice expressed confidence today that the Guatemalans would not support Palestinian statehood.
“Guatemala will be in favor of everything Palestinian until the Americans tell them otherwise,” UN analyst Jeff Laurenti said in October. President Obama has promised to ensure that the Palestinians are not given membership in the UN.
Um, why do the Palestinians need the UN to lend legitimacy to their claim for a nation? When does anyone need another body to legitimize their nationhood? What gives the UN the legitimacy to declare nations? It already fucked up by stealing most of Palestine and giving it to "Israel". Now it's going to take a small part of that land from Israel and give it back to the Palestinians?
Denying a nation a statehood is a sign of rebirth of the NACISM
The US, as usual, is on the wrong side of history.
The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism.
For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.
Zuheir Mohsen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuheir_Mohsen
There needs to be only one secular state from the Jordan River to the Mediteranian Sea. All those living within that area ( jew, moslem, christian) should have equal voting rights. They can name it whatever they want. The name does not matter.
Should I begin a rebuttal claiming that the Jewish people are an invented people…??? Or………….. "The __________ people does not exist." How many years in one place is long enough? 500, 1000, 1500..?? How about TWO thousand… You tell me…
Likudnik Troll.
Some would say Mohsen was a traitor to the Palestinian cause. In particular, the Wikipedia page cited also states, "The journalist Robert Fisk was to claim that as-Sa'iqa, under Mohsen, was to employ its energies "almost exclusively against their brother Palestinians",[6] stating that in June 1976 he saw "the PLO in open combat within West Beirut against Saiqa, who had attacked Arafat's forces on orders from Damascus."[7] Mohsen's militia has also been accused of being amongst the main perpetrators of the January 1976 Damour massacre, while some Lebanese Christian sources have suggested Mohsen led the attack on the town."
Leading attacks on fellow Palestinians? Doesn't sound much like a patriot to me.
But they were there when the Brits and French divvied up the remains of the Ottoman Empire, correct?
And a Zionist state in southern Argentina, or here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birobidzan would have caused much less trouble than fightin over this phony biblical sky-God or that one, silly claims that all the unwashed Fundie fruits are whining and crying about.
Susan Rice – the new Humanitarian Warlord Queen – riding in high on her horse, hair and cape flowing in the wind, to rescue hapless Libyans from the clutches of their eeevil dictator, whose freedom bullhorn is ringing out loud and clear from Aleppo to Damascus at the Syrian's eeevil dictator, "Expressed confidence today that the Guatemalans would not support Palestinian statehood."
Good job, hypocrital bimbo tool. Good job. The Bahrainis salute your bravery.