The US vetoed the resolution to grant Palestine UN membership yesterday, and in response, the Israeli occupation minister said:
“The proposal to recognize a Palestinian state, more than 6 months after the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and after the sexual crimes and other atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists was a reward for terrorism”
The United Sates claims resolutions from the UN will not create statehood for Palestine, but give no path to statehood for Palestine.
They claim it relies on negotiations by Israel and Palestine, like the ones which the United States negotiated in 1993?
There are many problems with claiming that granting Palestinian statehood is a reward for Hamas. Granting Palestine statehood does not give Hamas any legal recognition, only the Palestinian Authority, and contrary to Hamas’ wishes gives the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority, not Hamas.
Hamas is not an ally of the Palestinian Authority. It couldn’t be more clear.
We claim that the Israelis and Palestinians must reach an agreement but do not outline an agreement that would be approved by America.
The Israelis and Palestinians did come to such an agreement. In response, their Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, and Benjamin Netanyahu has been in charge of the country ever since. As long as he has remained in de facto control of the country, he has blocked all possibility of peace for almost 30 years.
Fishy, right?
I’m surprised Netanyahu has not pardoned Yigal Amir for his services in preventing a Palestinian Peace Process and giving Netanyahu 30 years of almost complete control of government.
The Two State Solution is a sham until Palestine is given UN membership.
Israelis don’t even have the excuse of fraudulent elections; their elections are legitimate. The War in Gaza is what Israelis have voted for for 30 years.
We must stop bailing them out. The ship is sinking under Netanyahu’s leadership. Without US support, Israel will collapse, and as long as we support them, Netanyahu will only make it worse.
The best course of action is to stop providing military aid to Israel and force them to come to a diplomatic solution.
Without citizenship in a UN member state and without the PNA having enough legitimacy and control of their territory as outlined by treaties Israel has signed, what course of action do Palestinians have to be heard in the world? What option do they have? Netanyahu has given them no other option.
The United States needs to recognize Palestine and force them to come to a peace agreement.