The U.S. has promised to vote against any resolution that would seek to grant the Palestinians full membership in the United Nations after a General Assembly resolution passed with significant support from member states.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Our vote does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood,\u2019 U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood said after the vote. \u2018We have been very clear that we support it and seek to advance it meaningfully: Instead, it is an acknowledgment that statehood will only come from a process that involves direct negotiations between the parties.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018This resolution does not resolve the concerns about the Palestinian membership application raised in April in the Security Council through the admissions committee process,\u2019 Wood added. \u2018Should the Security Council take up the Palestinian membership application as a result of this resolution, there will be a similar outcome.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
The vote, brought to the floor by the United Arab Emirates, received support from 143 members, with nine voting against and 25 abstaining.<\/p>\n
The \u2018no\u2019 votes included Argentina, Hungary, Israel and the United States, among others, while the abstentions included Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Monaco, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom, among others.<\/p>\n
\u2018A negotiated two-state solution remains the best path towards an enduring peace where Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side with equal measures of security, freedom, and dignity,\u2019 the U.S. Mission to the U.N. wrote on social media platform X after the vote. \u2018Unilateral measures like the UNGA resolution on Palestinian UN membership adopted\u00a0today will not advance this goal.\u2019<\/p>\n
Wood in his address to the General Assembly stressed that the resolution \u2018does not alter the status\u2019 of the Palestinians at the United Nations, labeling the motion \u2018unproductive,\u2019 but assured that as the resolution did not ultimately grant the Palestinians the rights that would provide \u2018the same standing as a member state.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
As such, the U.S. has indicated it will therefore not cut funding to the United Nations or specialized agencies, which it would have had to do under Public Law 101-246. President Obama during his administration cut funding to UNICEF after the organization admitted the Palestinians as members.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to the vote, Israel\u2019s Ambassador the U.N. Gilad Erdan accused members who would support the motion of \u2018shredding the U.N. charter.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Shame on you,\u2019 Erdan said as he shredded a small paper with \u2018Charter of the United Nations\u2019 written on it in a handheld paper shredder.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro University Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and president of Human Rights Voices, told Fox News Digital that \u2018Roughly 75% of U.N. member states evidently believe that there is one exception to the U.N. Charter\u2019s membership core requirement of being a \u2018peace-loving state,\u2019 namely, the would-be Palestinian terror state.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She warned that \u2018With today\u2019s resolution, the U.N. General Assembly could soon have a President from the so-called \u2018State of Palestine\u2019 \u2013 without any negotiation or agreement to live in peace and security with a Jewish state. Hamas and its Palestinian Authority UN mouthpiece at the helm of the United Nations\u2019 lead body. A day in infamy.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Several members in their post-vote statements stressed that they condemned the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, but argued that they deemed Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza of having gone too far: Singapore argued that supporting the motion would hopefully push Israel and the Palestinians to resume discussions aimed at establishing a two-state solution.\u00a0<\/p>\n
France\u2019s mission stressed that it supported the admission of the Palestinians as members of the U.N., but that while it voted in favor of the resolution to indicate ultimate support for the motion, it did not support attempts to \u2018circumvent\u2019 the membership admission process.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
The U.S. has promised to vote against any resolution that would seek to grant the Palestinians full membership in the United Nations after a General Assembly resolution passed with significant support from member states.\u00a0 \u2018Our vote does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood,\u2019 U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood said after the vote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}