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The United Nations is currently made up of 193 member nations and two permanent non-member observer states: Vatican City and the “State of Palestine.” The Palestinians, however, are on their way to full member status. The Times of Israel reported Wednesday that “Palestinians took a seat among member states at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, a new right accorded to the Palestinian Authority’s delegation despite it not being a full member of the body.” This is how the UN responds to jihad terrorism: by rewarding those who engage in it.
The initiative to give the “State of Palestine” a seat in the General Assembly began six months after Palestinians murdered 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023. “In May,” the Times of Israel notes, “an overwhelming majority of the General Assembly asserted that Palestinians deserved full membership, a move that has been blocked by the United States, which along with Israel says recognition of Palestinian statehood must come through a peace agreement.” One of the conditions of Palestinian statehood has always been that the “State of Palestine” recognizes Israel’s right to exist and pledges to live in peace with it. That is something that Palestinian leaders have never been willing to do.
Nevertheless, the UN charged ahead with the plans to reward the Palestinians, apparently under the delusion that a Palestinian state would end all the strife. Thus, “starting with the 79th General Assembly session, which began Tuesday, the Palestinians can submit proposals and amendments, and sit among member states.” Riyad Mansour, the envoy of the “State of Palestine” to the UN, “took his place on Tuesday afternoon at a table marked “State of Palestine” between Sri Lanka and Sudan.”
Egyptian Ambassador Osama Mahmoud Abdelkhalek Mahmoud was thrilled, saying, “This is not merely a procedural matter. This is a historic moment for us.” Jonathan Miller, deputy Israel ambassador to the UN, was more realistic, observing that “any decision and or action that improves the status of the Palestinians, either in the UN General Assembly or bilaterally, is currently a reward… for terrorism in general and the Hamas terrorists in particular.”
Indeed. Any doubts about what kind of state the “State of Palestine” might be were removed in late July, when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, declared, “Our religion is the religion of tolerance and the religion of human brotherhood. But we are also the people of Jihad and the people of force against those who deserve it from us and against those who want to harm our dignity, desecrate our holy sites, or deprive our rights…Palestine is giving its blood abundantly for your sake, nation of Islam.”
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Karl Pittmann says
Words Matter!
You can call a poisonous snake a kitten but it will still kill you!
So now the fake UN is giving the Fakestinian people a fake nation seat.
No surprises here!
Rick Gordon says
Incredible folly! The General Assembly continues to become irrelevant.
At a minimum we ought to bring up membership for the Kurds and Armenians as well.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Armenia does have a state, but your point is well taken. The Kurds, the Yazidis, the Assyrians, Tibet…. Let’s see them dare suggest “East Turkistan” – the breakaway country that the Uyghurs want to carve out of Xinjiang
gravenimage says
+1
Troybeam says
United Nations is simply a den of thieves.
Walter Sieruk says
It ranges from absurd to ridiculous that the United Nations, in any way or form would recognize the man –made fiction of what is called “The State of Palestine” as something that is artificial as an actual “State.”
For never in history was even ever a “Palestinian State.” Such an entity never existed. In other words , it has no Historical foundation whatsoever. Likewise, it’s an outright lie that there are is such a things a “Palestinian people.” Those so called “Palestinians” are Arabs. Likewise, the “Palestine flag” is a bogus flag.
Furthermore, history reveals that the ancient Philistines recorded in the Bible and history reveals the people who came from the Greek Islands and some parts of the mainland Greece. They have no connection, at all, the to the Arab /Muslim of modern times who called themselves the “Palestinians.”
From those ancient people, the Philistines, the word “Palestine” .came into being.
There is no genuine ethic group or race who are the “Palestinians.”
Early in the last century a anyone living in that land, Arab or Jew, who lived in that land was called a ”Palestinian.”
Only after 1964 did the Arab/Muslims start to refer to themselves , exclusively , by the word “Palestinian.”
The reason for that is that they felt that by giving themselves that title they would appear to have some kind of valid claim on that land.
Indeed , there never was a “Palestinian state.”
Walter Sieruk says
It ranges from absurd to ridiculous that the United Nations, in any way or form would recognize the man –made fiction of what is called “The State of Palestine” as something that is artificial as an actual “State.”
For never in history was even ever a “Palestinian State.” Such an entity never existed. In other words , it has no Historical foundation whatsoever. Likewise, it’s an outright lie that there are is such a things a “Palestinian people.” Those so called “Palestinians” are Arabs. Likewise, the “Palestine flag” is a bogus flag.
Furthermore, history reveals that the ancient Philistines recorded in the Bible and history reveals the people who came from the Greek Islands and some parts of the mainland Greece. They have no connection, at all, the to the Arab /Muslim of modern times who called themselves the “Palestinians.”
From those ancient people, the Philistines, the word “Palestine” .came into being.
There is no genuine ethic group or race who are the “Palestinians.”
Early in the last century a anyone living in that land, Arab or Jew, who lived in that land was called a ”Palestinian.”
Only after 1964 did the Arab/Muslims start to refer to themselves , exclusively , by the word “Palestinian.”
The reason for that is that they felt that by giving themselves that title they would appear to have some kind of valid claim on that land.
Indeed , there never was a “Palestinian state.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
While on this fad, why not recognize Tibet, or Kurdistan, or as I described in my last post on this subject of “Palestine” in the UN, Pridnestrovie, or the breakaway state of Transnistria?
Tony Rice says
We must bear in mind the UNITED NATIONS has been hi-jacked and Muslim countries are in the majority. So there is a State of Palestine, where is it, it’s capital, Prime Minister etc etc. Don’t forget a substantial branch of the U N actually took part in the Oct 7th murderous attack on Israel. Instead of Lammy stopping spare parts to Israel he should stop monetary aid to Hamas.
Lyone Fein says
It is long past the time that the United States should have withdrawn from the UN, and stopped funneling millions of dollars into the UN coffers. We should throw the entire group of degenerates off of American soil. Immediately rescind all so-called diplomatic immunity from terror sponsoring nations, and confiscate the UN building.
Riochard says
Utter Disgrace allowing these people in.
OLD GUY says
America needs to get out of the UN and kick the UN out of America.