Yoda: Palestinians win upgraded UN status by wide margin

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Palestinians win upgraded UN status by wide margin

The UN General Assembly has voted to recognise Palestine as a non-member observer state – a move strongly opposed by Israel and the US.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the assembly the vote was the “last chance to save the two-state solution” with Israel.

Israel's envoy to the UN said the bid pushed peace process “backwards”, while the US said the move was “unfortunate”.

The assembly voted 138-9 in favour, with 41 nations abstaining.

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Phi Beta Iota:  Israel is an invented nation-state rooted in the perfidy of the British government and the City of London.  Gandhi had it right: Palestine is to the Palestinians as France is to the French.

See Also:

Philip Allott, The Health of Nations: Society and Law beyond the State (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe (M. E. Sharpe, 1985)

Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People (Verso, 2009)

Jonathan Schell, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People (Holt Paperbacks, 2004)

Mark Tovey (ed.), COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (Earth Intelligence Network, 2008)

Howard Zinn, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (City Lights Publishers, 2006)

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