The U.N. vote in favor of granting non-member state status to terrorists, the Palestinians, no matter how it’s spun, is a vote for the destruction of Israel. I am heartened by Marco Rubio’s rapid and unequivocal response:
Senator Rubio Opposes UN Recognition Of Palestine
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) issued the following statement regarding today’s United Nations vote granting Palestine non-member state status:
“I oppose this unilateral move by the government of president Abbas and regret its reckless endorsement by the United Nations. True peace and international recognition of a Palestinian state can only be achieved through direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. The Palestinian people would be much better served if the Palestinian Authority were to spend its energies in responding to several Israeli calls for direct negotiations. As the Senate debates the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), I am proud to be a co-sponsor of an amendment to prohibit U.S. taxpayer funding for the United Nations in the event the organization upgrades Palestine’s status from permanent observer ‘entity’ before a comprehensive peace agreement has been reached with Israel. The Senate should swiftly adopt it.”
This vote puts an end to the Oslo Accords, and since the Palestinians have already threatened Israel, I say the Women in Green are correct–Annex Judea and Samaria, as Israel should have done in 1967.
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When they tried this last time, Obama gave the Palestinians a warning that breaking treaties will have consequences so they stopped their efforts at the UN. Obama could not risk overtly offending any in the electorate who still had scruples. But now that Obama has been safely reelected they know he will do nothing, so off they went to apply again. the UN is also obviously not worried about repercussions. Our dishonest and anti Israel administration can be relied upon to do whatever is the wrong thing when it comes to his Middle East decisions.
Congress must show that it still has the right ideas. All aid to the Palestinians should be cut off at once and to the UN as well.
Honey, there is a sad parallel between American Jews with respect to Israel’s plight and the so-called Cuban “diaspora” with respect to Cuba’s plight. In both cases, there is far too much inconsistency, not to say hypocrisy, between lip service (assuming there’s even that) and actual conduct. This is definitely not lost on those who, for various reasons, would screw over Israel and/or Cuba, with predictable results.
In other words, if the parties who are supposed to be most concerned, most invested and most committed to the best interests of either country are clearly not serious, or not serious enough, what can one possibly expect from non-Jews and non-Cubans, especially those who would gain from anti-Israel or anti-Cuba measures? I won’t tell you to do the math, because the math pretty much does itself.
Honey, what Palestine applied for last time and what they applied for this time were two different things. Last time the U.S. could easily block it. This time the U.S. had no chance of blocking it.
Because assuming you mean back in late 2011, that ‘last time’ Palestine actually asked for Full Membership in the U.N. That is something that the U.S. could veto via the U.N. Security Council. The U.S. said it would not approve full membership so Palestine’s ambitions then were dead in the water. Last time Palestine failed because the Security Council said it could not unanimously approve Palestine’s request because the U.S. said it would use its veto if it came to a vote.
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-11-11/middleeast/world_meast_un-palestinians_1_palestinian-statehood-bid-riyad-mansour-security-council?_s=PM:MIDDLEEAST
But THIS time Palestine asked for something less than Full Membership. This time Palestine only asked for “non-member observer State status”. That is something that the U.S. cannot veto, as that request does NOT have to be approved by the Security Council only the U.N. General Assembly.
The U.S. voted against Palestine this time in the General Assembly … but because the Security Council was not involved in the decision, the U.S. had no way to use its veto.
The US can adopt the Rubio amendment, since the UN is a pernicious fraud any way you slice it and does NOT deserve our money.
I’m with asombra. Also Obama gets the Muslim brotherhood’s Morsi of Egypt to “broker” the cease fire with Hamas and Obama gives big money to Morsi and Hamas for doing the right thing. This is ridiculous. The only reason there was a cease fire is that Gaza lost all of its rocket capacity and needs to get more. Morsi was not needed and Hamas didn’t do any good deed to get applauded for.
What an upside down world.
Okay, deganmiles, I see your point. But that doesn’t mean that Obama can’t express his opinion about a treaty being broken. As with all good causes, Obama is AWOL here.
I’m with asombra about UN funding. Also Obama gets the Muslim brotherhood’s Morsi of Egypt to “broker” the cease fire with Hamas and Obama gives big money to Morsi and Hamas for doing the right thing. This is ridiculous. The only reason there was a cease fire is that Gaza lost all of its rocket capacity and needs to get more. Morsi was not needed and Hamas didn’t do any good deed to get applauded for.
What an upside down world.