The United States Vetoes the Palestinians’ request to be a full member state of the UN

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The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, had described the bid for full-member status as an effort “to take our rightful place among the community of nations.”

For almost 12 years, Palestinians have participated in U.N. sessions as a nonmember observer state. Palestinians are allowed to join other international organizations, like the International Court of Justice, which is currently investigating allegations that Israel is committing genocide in its war on Hamas.

The situation of the Palestinians has been going on for a century, said the Palestinian representative to the UN in Thursday’s debate. We have made historic concessions in order to achieve peace that is based on the two-state solution.

The resolution would pass with nine votes in favor if China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the US veto it.

“Our principles haven’t changed,” said Robert Wood, the U.S. deputy ambassador to the U.N., on Thursday before the vote. What is the best way to resolve the issue of a two-state solution? And our view is that having this vote right now does not do that.”

“We will also continue direct diplomacy to advocate for normalization of ties between Israel and its neighbors, as well as a political horizon towards a two-state solution so that Palestinians and Israelis can live side by side in peace,” Wood said. “We are committed to achieving credible, timebound and irreversible steps toward a two-state solution.”

During Thursday’s debate, the Israeli ambassador to the UN had strong words against the Security Council’s decision to discuss the Palestinian application.

The resolution would have “zero positive impact for any party,” Erdan said. “It will cause only destruction for years to come and harm any chance for future dialogue.”

” Failure to make progress towards a two-State solution will only increase the risk for hundreds of millions of people, who will continue to live under the constant threat of violence.”

The Israeli military campaign on Gaza in the past six months has killed more than 31,000 Palestinians and damaged or destroyed a number of buildings, health officials in Palestine say.

In the wake of Israel’s destructive campaign, international perspectives on the conflict have shifted. In the U.S., where support for Israel was once widespread among both political parties, young people are increasingly more sympathetic to Palestinians. Other long-time Israel allies like the U.K. and France have signaled a greater openness to supporting Palestinian statehood.

With the conflict threatening to boil over beyond the borders of Israel and the Palestinian territories, the Middle East is on a “knife-edge,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday.

Last weekend, tensions between Israel and Iran reached a new height when Iran launched an unprecedented attack on Israel in retaliation for a strike on an Iranian consulate in Syria.

“Recent escalations make it more important to support good faith efforts to find lasting peace between Israel and a fully independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state,” he told the Security Council.

“Our right to self determination is a natural right — a historical right — to live in our homeland Palestine as an independent state that is free and that is sovereign,” he said.

The Security Council has consistently called for a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a result that has failed to materialize during negotiations between the two sides. In Washington, a spokesman for the State Department, Vedant Patel, said the new resolution was dead on arrival.

The United States views the most convenient path to statehood for the Palestinian people is through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, according to a spokesman for the US.

The physical borders and recognition of individual countries would need to be resolved in order for it to establish diplomatic relations.

Little progress has been made on achieving Palestinian statehood since Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed the Oslo Accords in the early 1990s, which established a peace process aimed at a two-state solution. The Palestinian Authority was driven from power in the Gaza Strip in 2007) by the militant group Hamas.