The UN General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution calling for an end to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.
The resolution passed in a vote of 124-14, with 43 nations abstaining. The resolution affirmed an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice that deemed the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem to be illegal.
The resolution sets a 12-month timeline for Israeli forces and settlers to leave the occupied territories. However, like the ICJ ruling, the resolution is not legally binding, and the UN has no way of enforcing it.
Israel and the US were among the 14 countries that voted against the resolution. The other 12 countries were Hungary, the Czech Republic, Argentina, Fiji, Malawi, Nauru, Micronesia, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Tonga, and Tuvalu.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the resolution and called for a Palestinian state. “The international consensus over this resolution renews the hopes of our Palestinian people — who are facing a comprehensive aggression and genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, including Jerusalem — to achieve its aspirations of freedom and independence and establishing a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital,” he said.
The US, which has provided diplomatic cover for Israel at the UN throughout the genocidal war in Gaza, criticized the resolution, calling it “one-sided” because it doesn’t mention Hamas.
“This resolution will not bring about tangible progress for Palestinians,” said the US mission to the UN. “In fact, it could both complicate efforts to end the conflict in Gaza and impede reinvigorating steps toward a two-state solution, while ignoring Israel’s very real security concerns.”
They just made it harder for a two state solution. The Palestinians will think that they have "the law" on their side and thus they will demand all of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. That is not going to a happen and both sides will just did in deeper.
Well, it IS going to happen eventually.
The question is whether there will be an Israel afterward at all, instead of Israel just withdrawing to inside its borders.
I could just as easily argue that there may be no Palestinians in the future if they don't negotiate a two state solution with Israel which will require compromise by both sides. With the right political climate what happen in 1948 can repeat itself.
You’re making a poor apples to oranges argument.
“Israel” is a regime/state. “Palestinians” are a group of people.
If If I had said there would be no Jews in the future, the arguments would have been similar.
And similarly stupid since considerable numbers of both groups now live outside the geographical area in question.
You’re making a poor apples to oranges argument.
“Israel” is a regime/state. “Palestinians” are a group of people.
If If I had said there would be no Jews in the future, the arguments would have been similar.
And similarly stupid since considerable numbers of both groups now live outside the geographical area in question.
1) Likud should be satisfied with 242 borders implied in UNGA resolution instead of 181 borders.
The sticking point for the Likud will be the 2 other conclusions of the ICJ and now the UNGA, namely;
2) Defining Israel as a Apartheid State
3) demand for payment of reparations
The resolution has lots of language prohibiting 3rd party support.
The most appropriate arrangement would would be an inversion: put up a security barrier around UNR 171 Israel to keep them in and control egress and ingress and all the inputs, fuel, food, water, meds, … in short, subject them to the same regimen they imposed on the Palestinians.
Likud's issues with #2, 3 are like John Wayne Gacy being fine with his conviction but taking issue with "people calling me a serial killer" and "demanding I serve prison time & be executed".
THOSE ARE THE LOGICAL OUTCOMES OF YOUR ACTIONS, you dipwad Likud twits !!!
Underneath all of this is a potentially explosive Jewish demography. The official land area of Israel is 8,550 sq.mi. The area of the West Bank is 2,263 sq.mi. Of Gaza: 133 sq.mi. Population density of Israel at the end of 2023 is 1,080 per sq.mi. That is not the largest of a major country but is only slightly below India's 1,130. At the end of 2023, 7.2 million Jews were residents of Israel. 8.5 million Jews lived outside Israel. 6.3 million of those in our nation, all of whom have the right if return.
In addition, Israel's birthrate is high.
Adding the Gaza strip does not alleviate real and potential demographic pressures. Driving the Palestinians out of the West Bank adds 28% new territory. Israel needs more to be safe from overpopulation. That suggests: 1. no state of Palestine inside the former British Mandate. 2. Expansion of Israel where expansion is possible. 3. Driving out the 2 million Palestinians who now live in Israel.
They do have the law on their side.
Committing genocide, torturing people to death, shooting protesters through the head. Emplyoing snipers to kill children. Driving huge concentrations of people into refugee tent camps designated safe zones after which to drop bunker busters on it, use hunger as a weapon against citizens, use infectious disease as biological weapon against citizens while dismantling any chance of a working health care system and torturing medical staff to death and all the Nazi-like brutality that the Israeli state commits, none of that is done with the law on their side. The Israeli state doesn't need to have the law on their side, they need no law, no excuse, no reason, no humanity, no sense. What they need is to end and be relegated to musea as the humiliating story of Zionism, with the humiliating story of Nazism a dire warning for future generations against supremacist Utopia.
The new regime in Argentina continues its alignment with the Yankee Empire.
Full Text of Resolution:
https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ltd/n24/266/48/pdf/n2426648.pdf
Passed with 2/3s majority
BDS USA
I'm angry at the countries voting against the resolution for sure, but not sure if I'm less angry at the countries that abstained. I need to search my feelings… Except, probably won't have a chance because Israel and the US always distract me with more evil and disgusting actions.
At least my country (Canada) Abstained, which is still a crappy move, but not the s**t move of voting Against. Progress ?
I'm slightly less angry, but indeed a lot more disgusted. They're not less wrong and not less excusable, but they're certainly more cowardly.
Well, obviously, with the tax haven and money-laundering giant of Nauru voting against the proposal as well, the US must be (once again) on the right side of history. The less than 13,000 citizens of Nauru must be proud that the US is following their lead in world affairs.
Just for reference, this years' pre-season scrimmage game for the University of Alabama football team brought in over 72,000 fans.
Roll Tide.
Don't understand Hungary??
However it should have mentioned Hamas … to the effect they have the right of violence against their occupier.
Budapest is where the exploding pagers came from.
Aaah, peerhaps ….
You know how sometimes a child does a "bad thing" and makes a parent mad so then the kid does a "good thing" to try to win back some positive attention ?
I think Hungary voted Nay on the ASI resolution to "make up for" its sensible positions on Ukraine in that war that displeased Mom NATO and Dad USA.
No, it has nothing to do with any of that. Hungary is a staunch Israeli ally. Orban and Netanyahu are tight enough to lick each others assholes. Expect nothing but the worst from Hungary with respect to Palestinian rights.
Oh ! I had no idea. I mean, no reason why Hungary couldn’t hold such a position, just seems…unexpected ?
All in favor of genocide vote nay.
Israel is now helping China’s economy:
https://x.com/zhao_dashuai/status/1836626658759184595
BFD. Like, Israel is going to reverse being what Israeli society is at this moment because of the determination of the General Assembly.
C'mon, DPRC, start offering those tiny Pacific nations trade & infrastructure-improvement deals to get them out from under the USA bootheel and able to vote their actual conscience, not just what Their "Guest" Airfield And Navy Base Owners want.
The Biden government effectively demands that Hamas must end the occupation of Palestinian territory because ending such occupation is the topic of this resolution. Weird.
If aliens in outer space see this injustice vote-without-enforcement by members of UN… they would never set foot on planet earth on the fear of being contaminated by the same trait…!
Both the "Zoo Hypothesis" and "The Great Silence" start to make a lot more sense in this regard.
There's also this concept, which I do enjoy :
https://youtu.be/r8p44wQMtNE?si=OuxBXiSQEfsiLy4N