Approval requires at least nine votes in favour, with no vetoes. The UNSC’s five permanent members – the US, Russia, China, France and Britain – hold vetoes.

But the US has indicated that its opposition to Palestinian member status in the UN, in the absence of a broader deal with Israel, stays intact.

“Our position has not changed,” Robert Wood, US deputy ambassador to the UN, said last week.

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    Why would I condemn Hamas? They’re not doing anything that Israel hasn’t already done to them first.

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      Oh boy. For one, they’re fascists oppressing Palestinians. For two, they’re the Palestinian version of the Kahanites keeping the conflict boiling.

      Hamas is not the PLO and unless you’re an ass-backwards Islamist, they’re definitely not on your side.

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        So you want Palestinians to be completely un armed and surrender like how Germans did with jews? I believe germany did not do a good job re educating.

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            Yeah. This guy is just desperate to save face for zionists.

            I’m seeing more of that on lemmy, now.

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              I was off-handedly lauding the PLO and you call me a Zionist. The PLO, contains armed faction, btw, hence the “brand new sentence” thing.

              Yep, both of you really don’t know what you’re talking about.

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        oh boy

        Yeah, that immediately makes me not take you seriously.

        Whenever someone approaches me as though they’re automatically correct, I just toss their assertions out the window because they’re usually wrong.

        Try to argue better 😬

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          Ok: PLO are left-wing freedom fighters, Hamas are Islamofascist nutjobs financed by the Israeli right-wing to discredit Palestinian liberation. Is that better?