Do you support the Palestinians' UN bid for statehood?

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where's the "fuuck the UN" option?

[The Hammer]

UN debates Palestine statehood bid

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...542764330.html

The UN Security Council has begun closed-door negotiations on the Palestinian bid for UN membership as major powers step up pressure for direct Palestinian-Israeli talks.

Although a vote on the historic bid is not expected for weeks or even months, the US has already threatened to veto the move.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met early on Monday with Najib Mikati, prime minister of Lebanon, which currently holds the rotating chair of the Security Council and has backed the Palestinian bid.

A staunch Israeli ally, the US is one of the five veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council, and the White House has repeatedly said Obama will use that power.

Ahead of Monday's meeting, experts from the 15-member nations started contacts on how the bid will be dealt with, diplomats said. The council must refer the application to a special committee which will make a recommendation.

"It won't be until Wednesday - once the committee has been formed - that the actual request will be handed over," Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey, reporting from UN, said.

"The process will likely move slowly, but for now, intense diplomacy continues behind the scenes here."

To pass, the Palestinians need the support of at least nine member nations, which diplomats say will be a struggle.

Six have already thrown their weight behind the bid, seven have not revealed their decision, while Colombia says it will abstain.

Our correspondent said Riyad Al-Maliki, the Palestinian foreign minister, is confident that the bid has already won over nine council votes.

And the Palestinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, told reporters that 131 countries now recognise a Palestinian state, having added two in the past week.

US President Barack Obama says the UN bid is an unrealistic shortcut that will not produce real and lasting peace on the ground between the two sides.

[IMDAZED]

Sure...why not? Not like it'll change anything. Can't see it happening though.

[devildg]

Palestine is now a state, now its time to get the occupiers the **** out of there.

[PureBoxingCEO]

Palestine's land belongs to Israel. Those arabs invaded the tiny Israel and want to make it smaller. I want Israel to bomb all of those arabs including Iran.

[street bully]

Palestine's land belongs to Israel. Those arabs invaded the tiny Israel and want to make it smaller. I want Israel to bomb all of those arabs including Iran.

And you call the Arabs terrorists. I think you should be bombed.

[Russian Crushin]

Palestine's land belongs to Israel. Those arabs invaded the tiny Israel and want to make it smaller. I want Israel to bomb all of those arabs including Iran.

Iranians aren't Arabs

But this post is obviously full of satire

[Prince Mongo]

Israel approves new homes in West Bank


The Israeli government has approved the construction of 3,000 new homes in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, less than 24 hours after the UN voted for Palestine to be upgraded to a non-member observer state, according to Israeli media reports.



The homes will be built both in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, but the government did not stipulate in which settlements.



According to a report in Haaretz, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu also plans to “promote planning and construction” in the so-called E-1 area between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, a major settlement with nearly 40,000 inhabitants.



The Obama administration has tried to discourage construction in that area, which would cut off East Jerusalem from surrounding Arab towns and further carve up the West Bank.



The decision was made by Israel’s “security cabinet,” a forum of nine senior ministers led by Netanyahu.



Israel’s government had threatened to approve further construction in the settlements as a possible response to Palestine’s bid for recognition.



But Palestinian officials have described that as a meaningless threat. Even before the bid, Netanyahu’s government has been approved thousands of new settler homes each year.

[squealpiggy]

Are you for or against the Palestinians' UN bid to be recognized as a state?

Israel won't be able to bully them as much without violating international law, if the Palestinians are officially recognized by the UN as a state.

You mean like the Statehood that was granted in 1948 and declined by the representatives of Palestine?

[Bermuda]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-...fter-u.n-vote/

Israel approved the construction of 3,000 homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, a government official said Friday, in what appeared to be a defiant response to the Palestinians' successful United Nations recognition bid.

scumbag israel at it again!