Thursday, November 29, 2012

UN Recognizes Palestine as a State

With a vote of one hundred and thirty-eight for, nine against, and forty-one abstentions the United Nations has recognized Palestine as a state.

The nine who voted no were Israel, the US, Canada, Czech Republic, Panama, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau.

It passed despite the fact that many of the PLO's leaders are members of groups recognized as terrorist groups.

It was also done despite this so called state not having any actual geographic border, at this point.

Ironically it was done sixty-five years, to the day, after a UN vote to grant land to a Jewish state, now known as Israel, a nation that the people who make up Palestine regularly attack.

Now will the Palestinians actually be willing to negotiate, with Israel, over borders and other issues?

Or will they continue their normal listing of ridiculous demands?

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