France will vote in favor of the Palestinians’ request to heighten their profile at the United Nations, the French foreign minister told Parliament on Tuesday, embracing a move that Israel and the United States oppose.
The support of France, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, is the most significant boost to date for the Palestinians’ hopes to be granted nonmember observer status and thus greater international recognition. Russia and China, two other permanent members, have also thrown their support behind the Palestinian bid.
The French support appeared calculated to strengthen the position of the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, whose party governs the West Bank, after clashes with Israel in the Gaza Strip this month that left Hamas, the Islamic militant organization that oversees Gaza, ascendant.
It is also a blow to Israel, whose diplomats have been working feverishly to try to ensure what they call a “moral majority” in the United Nations vote, meaning that even if a majority of nations vote in favor of the Palestinian bid, the major world powers will not. Read more at the NEW YORK TIMES.
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Why don’t they require them to recognize Israel first?
To continue…Why is it too hard to have ISRAEL’S RIGHT TO EXIST, as a prerequisite?
As usual socialists and leftist prove to be the biggest anti-Semites
France was threatened with attacks if they don’t vote in favor – look at the 50% of OCCUPIERS in France – Muslims
Does this mean tha Israel will no longer have to supply Gaza with free electricity, free water, and free ohoe servive ????
in favour, automatically disqualifies itself from being in the ‘moral’ majority. France in any case is hardly a country justified to call itself ‘moral’ with its extreme anti-religious agenda even before they sold themselves to the ‘Palestinian’ cause! Will the Israeli govt ever learn that seeking ‘morality’ from the nations of the world in place of the Holy Torah is a mission doomed to failure before they even start??
No wonder why I have no guilty feelings about sleeping through most of my french classes in high school. May the L-rd bless my discrete and amiable teacher! She never woke me ever!!!!!!!