Given the implicit support from Resolution 181 --illegality notwithstanding--and the near certainty of a positive General Assembly vote, the Zionist campaign to sabotage the vote makes no sense; that is, unless one looks a what a successful vote would mean for Palestine. For example:
UN membership would internationalize the Occupation, and define it as a legal matter as well as a political one. Palestine could demand and receive protection from the UN, which is bound to maintain the sovereignty of its members.
Palestine could pursue claims against Israel at the United Nations, human rights treaty bodies and the International Court of Justice.
Palestine could have its voice heard in a host on international cultural and economic organizations, like the World Health Organization, UNESCO, as well as association with the European Union.
In short, UN membership for Palestine would mean that Israel's systematic murder and torture of Arabs, and illegal Jewish land grabs could no longer be officially ignored. That is something Israel and is client states like Canada cannot permit to happen.
The UN has a chance to atone for its betrayal of Palestine 64 years ago. Does it have the courage to do it?
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