Palestine Launches Bid for Full UN Membership, Leads Group of 77 and China, January 18, 2019

Palestine Launches Bid for Full UN Membership, Leads Group of 77 and China

January 18, 2019

Editor's Note:

While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of David, Solomon, and Solomon's son).

After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

The following news stories are just examples of the Israeli occupation government violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources: https://english.palinfo.com/, http://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/


A Palestinian flag flying a the UN mast in New York, file, January 2019

Palestine Launches Bid for Full UN Membership

January 17, 2019 8:42 AM IMEMC News & Agencies

Palestine will launch a bid to become a full member of the United Nations, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Tuesday.

The bid will go ahead despite the United States having said it will veto Palestine’s membership plans.

“We know that we are going to face a US veto but that won’t prevent us from presenting our application,” Al-Maliki told journalists.

He added that the Palestinians will begin lobbying members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) in the coming weeks.

The Palestinians presented a request for UN membership in 2011, but the application never came before the UNSC for a vote.

Following that attempt, Palestine’s status was upgraded from a non-member observer entity to a non-member observer state, which allows the country to be a signatory to treaties for which the UN secretary-general is the depositary.

Since then, the country has joined more than 50 international organisations and agreements, according to the Palestinian foreign ministry.

Among them are the International Criminal Court and the UN heritage body, UNESCO.

In 2017, Interpol approved the Palestinian Authority’s membership bid, another victory in Palestinians’ drive for international representation despite strong Israeli opposition.

Palestine Leads Group of 77 and China at the UN

On Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assumed chair for the UN Group of 77 and China, the biggest UN bloc of developing countries, a position that raises Palestine’s international standing significantly.

In his address, Abbas said Israel was hampering development in the Middle East and renewed his commitment to a two-state solution.

“Israel’s continued colonisation and occupation of the state of Palestine undermines our development and capacity for cooperation, coordination and obstructs the cohesive future development of all peoples of the region,” he said.

The Palestinian leader also said he was committed to a “peaceful solution that brings an end to the occupation and the realisation of the independence of the state of Palestine with occupied East Jerusalem as its capital, living side-by-side in peace and security with the state of Israel.”

In recent years, Jerusalem has become an even more important point of contest between Palestine and Israel, after US President Donald Trump’s decision in December 2017 to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the US embassy to the city.

With that decision, Trump broke with the international consensus that the status of the city would be decided in negotiations, much to the outrage of the international community.

Abbas subsequently broke off ties with the Trump administration, vowing to oppose any US peace proposal that he has warned would be biased in favour of Israel.

Under Trump, the US has also cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for UN programmes benefitting Palestinians, including funds to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which was forced to scale back its education and health programmes.

The General Assembly last year adopted a resolution granting the observer-state of Palestine additional rights to act as chair of the G77, a bloc of 134 countries at the UN.

The US voted against that measure, arguing that the Palestinians should not be allowed to take the chair because it is not a full member-state.

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