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| International Law: Could Obama Veto Palestine’s Application to the United Nations? ~ Francis A. Boyle
| Could Obama Veto Palestine’s Application to the United Nations? ~ Francis A. Boyle On November 15, 1988 the Palestine National Council (P.N.C.) meeting in Algiers proclaimed the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that created the independent state of Palestine. Today the State of Palestine is bilaterally recognized de jure by about 130 states. Palestine has de facto diplomatic recognition from most states of Europe. It was only massive political pressure applied by the U.S. government that prevented European states from according de jure diplomatic recognition to Palestine. Palestine is a member state of the League of Arab States and of the Organization of Islamic Conference (O.I.C). When the International Court of Justice in The Hague—the World Court of the United Nations System—conducted its legal proceedings on Israel’s apartheid wall on the West Bank, it invited the State of Palestine to participate in the proceedings. In other words, the International Court of Justice recognized the State of Palestine. Palestine has Observer State Status with the United Nations Organization, and basically all the rights of a U.N. Member State except the right to vote. Effectively, Palestine has de facto U.N. Membership. The only thing keeping Palestine from de jure U.N. Membership is the implicit threat of a veto at the U.N. Security Council by the United States, which is clearly illegal because it would violate a solemn and binding pledge given by the United States not to veto States applying for U.N. Membership. Someday, Palestine shall become a full-fledged U.N. Member State. The votes are there already in the U.N. General Assembly to admit Palestine pursuant to the terms of its Uniting for Peace Resolution (1950). It is the U.N. General Assembly that admits a Member State, not the Security Council. Obama’s veto at the Security Council can be circumvented by the General Assembly acting under the Uniting for Peace Resolution to admit Palestine as a U.N Member State in September. SOURCE: http://truthaholics.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/could-obama-veto-palestines-application-to-the-united-nations-francis-a-boyle/ ______________________________________________ Going to the General Assembly under the Uniting for Peace Resolution (1950) circumvents the Veto which only applies to the Security Council ~ so long as the zionist Quislings don’t sell-out at the critical juncture: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/palestinian-leadership-divided-over-plan-to-seek-un-recognition-1.366679 On the other hand, here a list of UN resolutions that Israel has NOT complied with, along with illegally developing nuclear weapons, all matters of FACT which the US is complicit in. Further, the situation is far worse than would at first appear. It involves the serious distortion of the official Security Council record by the profligate use by the United States of its veto power.(See Table): http://www.uscrusade.com/forum/config.pl/noframes/read/1372 Eggs Fail To Recognize Omelette’s Right To Exist: “When Israel and its supporters demand that Palestinians must “recognize Israel’s right to exist” they specifically mean that Palestinians must acknowledge Israel’s “right” to exist as a Jewish state on the lands of former Mandate Palestine.” http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2007/03/eggs_fail_to_re.html The anti-semitic diatribe is wearing thin like an over-used anti-biotic as, in fact, anti-Palestinianism is actually anti-semitism. Isn’t it high time that Palestine was officially recognised, given the criminal state declared itself unilaterally at the UN 63 years ago, atop historical Palestine? ______________________________________________
