News Forum - Palestine welcomes UN vote on Israel’s illegal occupation

[Thaiger]

Palestinian leaders last night welcomed a United Nations General Assembly vote insisting on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to answer the legal consequences of Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories. The General Assembly voted 87 to 26 with 53 abstentions on the resolution, reported Aljazeera. A number of Western nations were split on the vote while the Islamic world was almost unanimous in support of Palestine. Russia and China also voted in favour of the resolution. Israel, the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and 22 other members voted against it while France abstained with 53 other nations. The ICJ, […]

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[oldschooler]

“Palestine” existed only as a British mandate term for 30 years…. otherwise even Arabs called it Greater Syria. Very Few Arabs there, outside of Jerusalem, for 1300 years… until Jews bought the poor overpriced land from absent Arab landowners, and farmed it .. starting around 1880….then tens of thousands of Arabs showed up … working for Israelis …..Arabs had done nothing with the rock desert land for 1300 years after conquering it … then these immigrant farm workers started calling themselves “ Palestinians”.

[Vigo]

The same nations condemning Israel  didn't  have much to say about Syrian atrocities, or Iran's abuse of human rights, let alone the Russian invasion of Ukraine.