The United Nations yesterday voted in favor of granting Palestine status as a non-member observer state.(non-member observer state is the same status Vatican City holds)
"The U.S. and Israel denounced the vote as an "unilateral" move.." -WSJ
Curious about this unilateral, rogue, anarchist vote in favor of a Palestinian state; I felt compelled to find the exact tally of who voted and how they voted (the link can be found above). Finding this tally was not as easy as it should have been for some reason...
Here is a synopsis of the tally:
138 vote YES
9 vote NO
41 abstentions =====> (abstention means the country refused to vote either yes or no)
No wonder the U.S. and Israel are so pissed...73% of the U.N. directly opposes them and 22% are 'too scared' to vote no (probably not wanting to piss us off) leaving only 5% of the U.N voting with us.
Since only 9 people voted no I might as well list them:
Canada, Czech Republic, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Panama, and United States of America.
(It turns out that Nauru and Palau were only raising their hands to ask the question "Where the hell is Nauru and Palau?!?! And how were we given a vote?")
In light of the statement that the vote represented unilateral interests....it seems that the U.S. and Israel opposition for a Palestinian state is the true unilateral interest. (P.S. Unilateral interests = interests which only consider the interests of one side; where multilateral interests = interests where all sides are considered)
So what interests do we have in preventing a Palestinian state that the rest of the world does not share?
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UN Watch "Results of U.N. vote to grant PLO non-member state status" November 30th, 2012.
<http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/11/30/results-of-u-n-vote-to-grant-palestine-non-member-observer-state-status>
The Wall Street Journal "U.N. Gives Palestinians 'State' Status" November 30th, 2012 Pg. A7
-Jay Lauria, Josh Mitnik, Jay Solomon
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