US: Resolution did not create Palestinian state

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US: Resolution did not create Palestinian state - Israel News, Ynetnews

The US position continues to be that there is no Palestinian state.

The UN does not create states. What they did was to recognize a state that already existed.

Now how long has this state existed?

Again, according to the US, it has never existed.

Indeed, that has been the propaganda campaign for as long as I remember.

 

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US Ambassador to the UN Sudan Rice said Thursday after the General Assembly vote that recognized Palestine as an observer state that the resolution "does not establish that Palestine is a state."

"Today’s grand pronouncements will soon fade. And the Palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed, save that the prospects of a durable peace have only receded," she remarked.

Rice stressed that the only way to achieve a two-state solution is through direct negotiations. "There simply are no short cuts. Long after the votes have been cast, it is the Palestinians and the Israelis who must still talk to each other—and listen to each other—and find a way to live side by side in the land they share."

"Progress toward a just and lasting two-state solution cannot be made by pressing a green voting button here in this hall. Nor does passing any resolution create a state where none indeed exists or change the reality on the ground. "

US: Resolution did not create Palestinian state - Israel News, Ynetnews

The US position continues to be that there is no Palestinian state.

Well said: The Palestinian State is occupied and life may indeed get worse for the cheering Palestinian People...But one thing has changed, is the Palestian State of mind, because the vast majority of people on planet Earth support their cause against all odds of the Israeli Jackboot...

A State of Mind like many of the world's ideas have always been more powerful than any army.

There is no occupation, and the vote means different things in different countries. Some of the votes were simply anti Israeli or anti US and not particularly pro Palestinian Arab and some were attempts to strengthen Abbas' political position vis a vis Hamas. The fact remains that the Palestinian Arabs are ruled by gangs of terrorists in Gaza and by a Palestinian mafia in the West Bank and neither group of thugs is competent to manage their realms to the benefit of the Arabs that live within them. If you are truly pro Palestinian Arab, and not merely anti Israel, then you should be hoping for internal political reform among the Arabs in the disputed territories so that they can have a government competent to responsibly and realistically negotiate with Israel.

Polls of Israelis consistently show that they strongly support negotiations leading to a peaceful two state solution when they have some hope the negotiations may succeed, but when that hope is dashed by events like the second intifada or Abbas' four year refusal to come to the negotiating table, there is little resistance in Israel to those who want to expand the Israeli presence in the West Bank. Abba's decision to go to the UNGA instead of coming to the negotiating table during an Israeli election, has served to strengthen the right and center right parties, which support expanding the Israeli presence in the West Bank, and to weaken the left and center left parties, which would freeze it if they could. A look at the lists of candidates and the polls shows that Netanyahu will preside over a more right wing government in his next term as PM than he has now.

While the Palestinian Arabs shout and sing ans wave flags to celebrate their victory, Israel's center right government recognizes Abbas has delivered to them a political victory over the opposition and has quietly approved the building of 3,000 new homes in the West Bank in an area that will connect Jerusalem to Ma’aleh Adumim, a project that has been kept on hold for years by the hope, now all but vanished, that peace negotiations would settle disputes in this sensitive area.

In the run up to the UNGA vote, Abbas proclaimed he would not yield to US or Israeli pressures even if they wanted to kill him, but why would Israel's center right government want to kill Abbas when his actions continue to advance their agenda and to weaken the opposition?