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Ahead of the United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to reject such membership, hoping to avoid an overt “veto” by Washington. The lobbying effort, revealed in copies of unclassified State Department cables obtained by The Intercept, is at odds with the Biden administration’s pledge to fully support a two-state solution.
While clarifying that President Joe Biden has worked vigorously to support “Palestinian aspirations for statehood” within the context “of a comprehensive peace that would resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” a diplomatic cable dated April 12 details U.S. talking points against a U.N. vote for Palestinian statehood. The cable says that Security Council members must be persuaded to reject any proposal for Palestinian statehood — and thereby its recognition as a sovereign nation — before the council’s open debate on the Middle East, scheduled for April 18.
“We therefore urge you not to support any potential Security Council resolution recommending the admission of ‘Palestine’ as a U.N. member state, should such a resolution be presented to the Security Council for a decision in the coming days and weeks.”
The raison d’être of israel is apartheid and racial supremacy.
Their version of a constitution firmly establishes it as a Jewish ethnostate and does not grant others the same rights.
There can be no israel with equal rights. Only a Palestine.
I mean you could say the same thing about apartheid South Africa.
A state founded on injustice will never know peace until reestablished with equal rights for all. The colonizers in power have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing.
Well yeah but they took the Apartheid out of Apartheid South Africa. They didn’t try to reform the apartheid government nor merge South Africa into it.
So they should take the Apartheid (israel) out of Palestine.
Their entire existence is anchored on the racist idea of Jews as “The Chosen People” which is straight out of the same way of thinking about people as the ultra-racist shit from the early XX century, rather than the modernist take that Jews are just like everybody else, have the same human rights as everybody else and should be treated like everybody else so how can we make sure that’s so.