The Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas submitted its bid for the UN membership today.
Tens of thousands of jubilant people were out in West Bank celebrating the move after decades of hold-backs by the 'mediator', the United States. The United States has expressed its opposition facing opposition from Israel. The Israeli side insists that the bid would not be good for peace negotiation, which happened to have been stalled for a year. The United State said it would exercise its veto power when the bid is put to the Security Council.
The Israeli side expressed concerns that the membership will grant them to put Israel to world court. While their air bombing in Gaza now is regarded as its internal affair, the verdict may well be it is committing a war crime. The counter argument goes that Israel attacked Lebanon, a sovereign nation any way. The other important ramification of getting the membership is that Israel might have difficulty imposing arms embargo upon Palestine. The Israeli government had a diplomatic war against Turkey when seven Turkish aid workers to Gaza were killed in the flotilla.
Palestine can bring the matter to the general assembly where the United States has no veto power as well. There Palestine could become an "observer state" if the majority of the nations agree. More than half of the UN nations reportedly had expressed support and recognize Palestine as an independent state.
The voices of people that want independence should not be suppressed by the United States just because its lawmakers are bought by Israeli lobbyists. The money is our tax money anyway, a part of the US's military aids to Israel. The United States should support the independence of Palestine, as a democratic voices of people just as it hails the Arab Spring.
Tens of thousands of jubilant people were out in West Bank celebrating the move after decades of hold-backs by the 'mediator', the United States. The United States has expressed its opposition facing opposition from Israel. The Israeli side insists that the bid would not be good for peace negotiation, which happened to have been stalled for a year. The United State said it would exercise its veto power when the bid is put to the Security Council.
The Israeli side expressed concerns that the membership will grant them to put Israel to world court. While their air bombing in Gaza now is regarded as its internal affair, the verdict may well be it is committing a war crime. The counter argument goes that Israel attacked Lebanon, a sovereign nation any way. The other important ramification of getting the membership is that Israel might have difficulty imposing arms embargo upon Palestine. The Israeli government had a diplomatic war against Turkey when seven Turkish aid workers to Gaza were killed in the flotilla.
Palestine can bring the matter to the general assembly where the United States has no veto power as well. There Palestine could become an "observer state" if the majority of the nations agree. More than half of the UN nations reportedly had expressed support and recognize Palestine as an independent state.
The voices of people that want independence should not be suppressed by the United States just because its lawmakers are bought by Israeli lobbyists. The money is our tax money anyway, a part of the US's military aids to Israel. The United States should support the independence of Palestine, as a democratic voices of people just as it hails the Arab Spring.