Israeli officials continue to make bellicose threats to the Palestinian Authority about the “retaliation” they are liable to make in response to the move, but Palestinian officials say they will continue with their effort to be recognized as a non-member state at the United Nations.
Israel’s government has objected to the recognition, saying the Palestinians can only have a state with Israel’s explicit permission. Though Israel has managed to get US promises to veto such recognition in the Security Council, the vote in the UN General Assembly has no such veto possibility, and is expected to pass overwhelmingly.
Which has the Israeli Foreign Ministry planning a “special meeting” to brief its ambassadors on exactly how they are supposed to oppose the Palestinian bid, and emphasize that it would “result in the cessation of the peace process.”
This threat would likely be taken much more seriously, however, if the Israeli Foreign Ministry did not openly spurn the concept of the peace process in the first place, hadn’t declared it dead several times over the past year, and if the talks themselves hadn’t been stalled for well over a year.
america stock in trade is to create criminals like israel.
Actually, Israel was created by the UK. Heard of the Balfour Declaration?
In any event, any "peace process" between Israel and the Palestinians was never actually successful. Why? The Zionist entity NEVER negotiated in good faith, to begin with.
The Palestinians have my total emotional, my spiritual, and to the extent possible, my financial support. Right-wing Israel has become a total disgrace to humanity and I unconditionally despise it.
Hurray for Palestine! For God sakes, don´t cave in to pressures from Israel and the US, because you will know what will happen to your people. The only way Israel could change the minds of Palestinian leaders would be through huge personal bribes, and that will be obious to the world.
"Palestinians can only have a state with Israel’s explicit permission." It should be pointed out that the State of Palestine already exists, having being declared in 1988 and having been recognized by other states. This is the same process that created Israel in 1948. Palestine is not a sovereign state, being occupied by Israel, and is probably not eligible for full UN Membership. Recognition by the GA as a non-member state would be an important moral boost, though without much practical effect.
If Netanyahu abandons the peace process, good riddance. It was going nowhere anyway.
No, Palestinians may have a state with UN backing. Just because it's occupied by the Zionist entity, that fact has NO bearing on its statehood status. This absurdity would've also applied to nations occupied by enemy armies in wars such as the first two World Wars.
Much of Europe was occupied by Nazi Germany during WWII; and, Eastern Europe was occupied by the Soviet Union from that war's end until 1989. Would you deny these countries statehood? Of course not; so, why deny Palestine? That's absurd