UN upgrades Palestinian status, bolstering statehood claim

The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution on Thursday giving implicit recognition to Palestinian statehood despite threats by the United States and Israel to punish the Palestinian Authority by withholding funds for the West Bank government.

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• There should be one state guaranteeing freedom and equality for Muslims, jews, Christians, Samaritans, Druse, Arabs, Sephardim, Falasha, Mirazhim, Ashkenzim and everyone else. No more apartheid. No symbols on the flag corresponding to any ethnic or religious community.

• Give Palestine back all their land.

• Yes, Israel, dismantle all of your settlements in the West Bank. That land does not belong to you no matter how much you tried to steal.

• Do they not have real estate title searches there?

• Recognize Israel as a sovereign nation. Then Israel needs to dismantle the West Bank settlements.

• It's progress.

• No - 9: Canada, Czech Republic, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Panama, Palau, United States of America Abstain - 41: Albania, Andorra, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Colombia, Croatia, Dem. Rep. of Congo, Estonia, Fiji, Germany, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malawi, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Poland, Korea, Moldova, Romania, Rwanda, Samoa, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Togo, Tonga, United Kingdom, Vanuatu Yes - 138: Pretty much the rest of the General Assembly's membership.

  http://www.intlawgrrls.com/2012/11/palestine-news-flash-138-aye-9-nay-41.html

• Palestinians, the people who demand recognition, but refuse to recognize Israel.

• Israel really is the scum of the earth.