He further noted that granting Palestine full membership would send a "powerful message" in support of the two-state solution, adding, "Fulfilling the UN's historic obligation towards the Palestinian people is
Palestinian Official Warns of UN Membership PushDavid BoscoForeign Policy
The resolution "determines" that a State of Palestine is qualified for membership - dropping the original language that in the UN General Assembly's judgment it is "a peace-loving state." It therefore recommends that the Security Council reconsider its request "favorably." Saudi Arabia's permanen...
He also stressed the importance of full membership for Palestine at the UN and the implementation of the two-state solution. Mahmoud al-Aloul, deputy chief of Fatah, and Mousa Abu Marzouk, who represented the Hamas delegation, both expressed appreciation to China for supporting and helping Palesti...
Under the founding UN Charter, membership is open to "peace-loving states" that accept the obligations in that document and are able and willing to carry them out. "As long as so many of you are 'Jew-hating,' you don't really care that the Palestinians are not 'peace-loving'," UN...
The results of a vote on a resolution for the UN Security Council to reconsider and support the full membership of Palestine into the United Nations is displayed during a special session of the UN General Assembly, at UN headquarters in New York City on May 10, 2024. Photo by CHAR...
CBS News correspondent Allen Pizzey reports that, while observer status is still a long way from a full membership at the U.N., seen from Ramallah's Yasser Arafat Square, it seemed a huge step forward. Long-time Palestinian peace negotiator Hannan Ashrawi told Pizzey that Thur...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been described as one of the most intractable in the world. This article first provides an overview of the sociopolitical events that led up to the Palestinian UN state membership bid in September 2011, and second, as a case study, it examines how the Isra...
In so doing, Israel sought to signal that the “moral majority” consisting of the world’s major democracies did not support Palestinian membership in the UN. In fact, democracies such as France and Spain joined the bloc of 138 states that voted in favor; Germany and the UK were among th...
The United States vetoed a draft UN resolution advocating for full membership for Palestine. Britain and Switzerland abstained, while the remaining members of the Security Council voted in favor. Meanwhile, Abbas condemned the United States' continued support for and weapon and fund supplies to Israel...