Palestinian statehood and bypassing Israel

[Jefferson23]

Israel breaks international law and UN agreements under the guise of "protecting state legitimacy".

Last Modified: 16 Jun 2011 19:47

Israel, backed by the US, has started a campaign to preempt a Palestinian drive to win United Nations recognition of an independent Palestinian state on the territories occupied by Israeli in the 1967 war.

If such a recognition is secured, it will neither lead to an establishment of a Palestinian state nor would it stop the continued Israeli colonisation of Palestinian lands. Nevertheless, Israel is mainly concerned that the Palestinian move would restore the United Nations resolution - and international resolutions - as the main reference for solving the conflict.

Israel has been relying on unchallenged US support and its military supremacy to create facts on the ground to prevent the foundation of an independent Palestinian state, and for that matter, any alternative solution based on equality and justice.

If anything, Israel has used the 17-year-old Oslo process to undermine international law and substitute United Nations resolutions with territorial and demographic changes as terms of reference. And it is these final status settlements that determine the permanent status of the Palestinian land and people.

remainder: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/06/20116168535227628.html

[Jefferson23]

1. kick n/t

[aranthus]

2. They're right about a couple of things.

If such a recognition is secured, it will neither lead to an establishment of a Palestinian state. . .

Of course this is true. All that the PA is going to get is a General Assembly Resolution. The General Assembly is political theater. It has no power. Its resolution carry no moral force. A General Assembly Resolution and a buck won't get you a cup of coffee at Starbuck's.


Nevertheless, Israel is mainly concerned that the Palestinian move would restore the United Nations resolution - and international resolutions - as the main reference for solving the conflict.

No doubt. What Aljazeera doesn't do is explain why any sane moral state would want its actions judged by the UN. It's the hopelessly political good old boys club of mostly dictatorial thugocrats, amoral when it's not a moral cesspool, and so obviously biased against the Jewish state (mostly for political reasons like oil, money and anti-Western solidarity) that you could call it in Braille.

[Jefferson23]

3. We can't have any of that:

**Obama is not far from the truth: Any move that invokes the application of international law and UN resolutions that recognise Palestinian rights, are in effect, acts that de-legitimise Israeli colonisation of Palestinian land and dispossession of the Palestinian people.

[aranthus]

4. Which merely points out how low the UN has gone.

Notice he doesn't say the colonisation of the West Bank. He says Palestine, meaning the whole thing. So the move is really about delegitimizing Israel, not merely the occupation.

[Jefferson23]

5. How low the UN has gone? Israeli peace moves marching forward eh?

I must have missed them.

Israel and the U.S. will not fare well in this regard.