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UNITED NATIONS, May 10 (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognizing it as qualified to join and recommending the U.N. Security Council "reconsider the matter favorably."

The vote by the 193-member General Assembly was a global survey of support for the Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member - a move that would effectively recognize a Palestinian state - after the United States vetoed it in the U.N. Security Council last month.

The assembly adopted a resolution with 143 votes in favor and nine against - including the U.S. and Israel - while 25 countries abstained. It does not give the Palestinians full U.N. membership, but simply recognizes them as qualified to join.

The resolution "determines that the State of Palestine ... should therefore be admitted to membership" and it "recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter favorably."

The Palestinian push for full U.N. membership comes seven months into a war between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and as Israel is expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank, which the U.N. considers to be illegal.

"We want peace, we want freedom," Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour told the assembly before the vote. "A yes vote is a vote for Palestinian existence, it is not against any state. ... It is an investment in peace."

"Voting yes is the right thing to do," he said in remarks that drew applause.

Under the founding U.N. Charter, membership is open to "peace-loving states" that accept the obligations in that document and are able and willing to carry them out.

"As long as so many of you are 'Jew-hating,' you don't really care that the Palestinians are not 'peace-loving'," Israeli U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan, who spoke after Mansour, told his fellow diplomats. He accused the assembly of shredding the U.N. Charter - as he used a small shredder to destroy a copy of the Charter while at the lectern.

"Shame on you," Erdan said.

An application to become a full U.N. member first needs to be approved by the 15-member Security Council and then the General Assembly. If the measure is again voted on by the council it is likely to face the same fate: a U.S. veto.

ADDITIONAL U.N. RIGHTSDeputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood told the General Assembly after the vote that unilateral measures at the U.N. and on the ground will not advance a two-state solution.

"Our vote does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood; we have been very clear that we support it and seek to advance it meaningfully. Instead, it is an acknowledgement that statehood will only come from a process that involves direct negotiations between the parties," he said.

The United Nations has long endorsed a vision of two states living side by side within secure and recognized borders. Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, all territory captured by Israel in the 1967 war with neighboring Arab states.
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They will be on the human rights commission.

Yeah, fuck that noise...

Stop commenting atrocities and terrorist acts for 20 years and we will talk after...

typical UN - anti-American, anti-western.

fuck them and kick them out of NY.

FUCK THE UN!

It will happen. The world will wage war against the Jews in due time.

They peace do they? Well then they should not have bitten the hand that feeds them.

They can have our seat. We need out of that dumb shit

Fuck those terrorists and the UN…

Another reason to kick the UN the fuck out of the USA.

Who would pay their bills and bribes then?

They aren't even a country and the UN is a joke anyway, the US should stop contributing.

Considering that dictatorships, terrorists and slave owners are in the UN General Assembly, I'm not surprised.

I watched the Israeli UN envoy give an impassioned speech detailing the terrorist acts committed by Hamas on Oct 6 and finishing by shredding the UN charter. He got no reaction from the assembly.

The Palestinian envoy comes to the podium and gives a sob story speech about genocide and starving children and gets a standing ovation.

The UN is completely fucked up and should be kicked out of the U.S.

And this is why I don't recommend ever spending/giving away a dime on ANY military goods or actions in europe or the middle east. F the UN, F NATO, not one dime or drop of blood WHEN it comes time to march for some stupid asshole who is political or making money selling war goods.

Yes there are a couple countries I would like to exempt from the above but past those, let the ME and Europe die the death they deserve. We have plenty of serious issues right here that politicians refuse to look at and deal with.

We should leave the UN.
And NATO.

Then they can do whatever woke nonsense they want without our money.

How about we leave the UN and let the rest of them have it . As with most things , they need us more than we need them .

Should, but will not. UN and demoncrats love, love their muzzies.

From the River to the Sea

"It just means we want access to clean water"

Yep.  The commission has the history of attracting the worst offenders as chair and members.  Remember when Libya chaired just 3 years before they attacked Libya?

The more the IDF kills, the better.

Yeah so, back in 1974, the UN "recognized" Palestine and it's leadership, the PLO. Remind me again how that turned out....?

Oh yeah, now I remember, 50 FUCKING YEARS OF TERRORISM.

Might not have been the smartest thing to do in retrospect. Acknowledging terrorist groups and all, pretty much opened the floodgates to a half century of murder.

People who rape and torture innocents, do not belong in the UN. They belong in hell.

Guess that makes it an even more successful terrorist attack than 9/11.
Terrorism really pays off.

Stop funding the UN.

That's exactly what the UN taught 'em in '74, and that's exactly what they're teaching them now.

"global" democracy in action

giving every employee & inmate in the asylum an equal vote in running it