“The message that the UN is sending to our suffering region: violence pays off.”
Exactly.
“UNGA votes 143-9 to upgrade Palestinian statehood status,” by Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2024:
The United Nations General Assembly voted 143-9 to upgrade the Palestinian’s status as a non-member observer state, granting it all but voting rights with regard to all activities related to its plenum.
Argentina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Micronesia, Nauru, Papa New Guinea, Palau, and the United States opposed the resolution.
Among those countries that supported the text were many European Union members, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.
Australia also supported the resolution, while Canada, Great Britain, and Ukraine abstained.
There are already some 143 countries that recognize Palestine as a state.
The UNGA vote, which is mostly symbolic, is viewed as an international referendum in support of unilateral Palestinian statehood.
Many Western and European countries have believed that full Palestinian statehood recognition and Palestinian UN membership should come at the end of a final status agreement that tends to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In light of Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel on October 7 that sparked the Gaza War, a number of Western countries have reconsidered their position.
Israel immediately attacked the decision, as a prize for terrorism, given that it comes in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 attack, which sparked the Gaza war.
It also warned that such a step would harm negotiation for the release of the remaining 132 hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza.
“The message that the UN is sending to our suffering region: violence pays off,” the Foreign Ministry stated.
“The decision to upgrade the status of Palestinians in the UN is a prize for Hamas terrorists after they committed the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and perpetrated the most heinous sexual crimes the world has seen,” it stated.
“The decision also provides a tailwind to Hamas amid negotiations for the release of the 132 hostages and humanitarian relief, further complicating the prospects for a deal,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry stated….
Rick Olsha says
AM ISRAEL CHAI !!!!!
Rick Gordon says
The U.N. is – and has been – controlled by the large number of countries that hate the US and western civilization. It is folly to expect better from them. The only times that we were protected from this group was when Nikki Haley and John Bolton were our ambassadors.
Raja says
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
While it seems fair on the surface, the idea that all countries are equal is ridiculous, when examined more closely. The idea that Burundi is equal to China, or Laos to Russia, or Montenegro to the US, or Nicaragua to India, is just asinine
somehistory says
hamas is the “government’ of the “palestinians.” If the people who call themselves by that fake term get voting rights….if hamas gets voting rights…the vote will be the same as iran because hamas is an extension of iran.
hamas is a terrorist organization made up solely of terrorists; giving it the status of “state” with voting rights, would be giving it power as a ‘terror state.’
In iran, there are hundreds of thousands of people who oppose terror and the government there. In gaza, from all indications, very few…if any… oppose terror and the ‘government.’
The UN is made up of terror states and supporters of terror states, except for a very few nations. Now, everyone who reads the list can see which nations are ruined by supporters of terror.
The majority of nations now support terror.
John Smith says
“The UN is made up of terror states and supporters of terror states, except for a very few nations.” Exactly Somehistory, their policies speak for themselves. They intend to flood our countries with illegal immigrants and want open door migration into Europe and the western world with no questions asked. It’s a well known fact that many members of their side-kick UNRWA were involved in the Oct 7th attack with some even participating in the actual attack.
The sooner this dreadful organisation is disbanded the better it is for the free world, because it certainly isn’t serving the principles that it was originally set up for. In fact it’s doing quite the opposite, as it’s only serving the advancement of islam.
somehistory says
Thank you, John.
I agree with you. islam is advancing rapidly with the un’s help. I believe that the un is doing the “desires” of satan.
And doing so with a lot of authority placed on it by the nations, having loads of weapons and money with which to do his evil deeds.
Tony Rice says
What else can one expect from the disUnited Nations, as it has become a place where Muslim nations or those favouring, are in the majority. Hence their resolution a few years back which they passed saying there is no evidence of Jews being in/or of Eretz Israel, or Jerusalem etc. Which also therefore denies the existence of the Christian religion ( they say Jesus was an Arab )
WPM says
I think the UN should be moved to Gaza or some other hell hole that they back .Hamas hates it own people almost as much has they hate the Jews ,they use them as human shield while their leaders live in 5 star hotels in Qatar and buy expense second, third homes in Europe and the Americas. All foreign aid going for terrorist actives ,and the leaders and their families lifestyle ,while the people stuck in the war zone suffer.
maria says
i think that UN should be finished.
There must be new group that is democratic and ban all the members of UN and destroy islam
Stive says
Can I sponsor admittance to. U.n. republic of Basques, republic of Corsica, republic of Donetsk, republic of Baluchistan, republic of Tibet, republic of Antarctica as all are real peoples minus the penguins in the last one.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You beat me to it
I could add countries like Transnistria, Khalistan, Republic of Kailasa (which actually made trade deals w/ some NJ cities before they discovered that that country doesn’t exist, except in people’s imaginations), East Turkistan and a few others I listed in my post below
dumbledoresarmy says
Shame, shame, SHAME on my country, Australia, for supporting ths vile resolution: for following a multitude to do evil. SHAME!!!
Any of us here who are Australians need to be telling our MPs and our PM exactly what we think of this rush to REWARD the Mohammedan mob for … the horrendous atrocities of October 7 2023.
NOT IN MY NAME, YOU BASTARDS!
At best our current government are a mob of gutless appeasers rushing to ‘feed the crocodile’. At worst… there may well be those among them who are simply evil: who have quite possibly been seeking out the video of the atrocities – e.g. ‘Screams Before Silence’ – not in order to recoil in horror, but in order to secretly ENJOY the spectacle of Jewish men, women and children being torture-murdered.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’ll ding India as well. I do hope Modi goes down in the elections that are going on right now. Not that the current potential replacement would necessarily be better, but the policy of groveling before the likes of Qatar, “Palestine”, Turkey and other islamic countries needs to be ended
Devasur says
If he goes down and islamic khangress wins that would be the end of India. That’s what you are expecting?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
BJP is an islamizing force in its own right. Even if you follow their supporting publications like OpIndia, you’ll notice the incidents of crimes against Hindus on the rise, especially over the last 5 years. And then there is foreign policy, where they’re turning out to be no better than “Khangress”, as you put it: they seem to be as supportive of the Palis as Indira Gandhi was
If Hindus are gonna be slaughtered regardless of whether it’s a BJP govt or not, why bother picking either of them? Either vote NOTA, or if you have an Ekam Sanatan Bharat or Hindu Mahasabha candidate in your constituency, vote for them
Pray Hard says
As I’ve said a thousand times, the UN is nothing but a moslem boys club and a sock puppet of the OIC and a nest of maggoty leftist vermin.
Kosh's Shadow says
When the UN was founded, “Never Again”
Not too many years later, “Ever Again”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The UN has never been an organization that deserved to be taken seriously (except maybe during the Korean War), and this vote is one of the greatest examples why
Putting aside morality for the moment: if the UN is gonna recognize non-existent states, why stop at “Palestine”? Why not Kurdistan, Tibet, East Turkistan, Balochistan, Khalistan, Republic of Kailasa, Basque, Transnistria, and so on? Since a country doesn’t have to exist as a real political entity w/ actual control of its territory, why not recognize all of those? Just b’cos fewer countries gang up against the likes of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, Spain, Moldova and Ukraine?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Oh, and I forgot the countries Scott Adams invented in Dilbert: Elbonia, Kneebonia. Oh, and also other imaginary countries in the Tintin comic lineup – Sylvania, Borduria, and another in Latin America that I forget
Yeah UN, please recognize those as well!
somehistory says
Long ago, Lucy invented “Franistan” and she was a “maharincess” of the pretend nation.
Sherlock Holmes also invented a nation when he and Watson pretended to be ME sheiks.
It’s an old idea, but at least they weren’t trying to gain entrance to something after murdering many and with the intent to murder millions more.
Common Centrist says
Thankfully, the UN is terminally ill and its life expectancy limited.