UN committee to discuss Palestinian bid for full membership | Africanews
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Any application for UN membership is considered by a committee, then it must pass a vote at the Security Council where 5 states wield a veto, then the General Assembly votes.

Israel’s current right-wing government is dominated by hard-liners who oppose Palestinian statehood. ⠀

United States said relations between Israel and the Palestinians are far from ripe. That all but quashes the Palestinian Authority’s U.N. membership hopes for now.

The U.S. is one of five permanent members who can veto any council action. Members of its U.N. delegation reiterated Monday that the Palestinian Authority needs to exert control over all of the Palestinian territories and negotiate statehood with Israel before it wins statehood.

The Palestinian Authority administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Its forces were driven from Gaza when Hamas seized power in 2007, and it has no power there.

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  • nublug
    33·
    9 months ago

    “free yourself from your oppressor before we recognize your existence” is pretty goddamn fucked up.

    • bartolomeo@suppo.fi
      28·
      9 months ago

      Yea, and why would Palestine have to “negotiate statehood with Israel before” getting statehood?

      And what was the U.N. partition plan for Palestine in 1947, didn’t it make a Jewish state and an Arab state? Does this mean Israel also doesn’t have statehood? It’s fucked up yea but it also makes no sense if you’re not racist.