UN Upgrades Palestine to Non-Member Observer State

[Mr Khan]

Griffin said:

Rath said:

Player1x3 said:

Rath said:
I don't see a problem with this at all. I mean nearly everyone agrees Palestine should eventually be a state - what is the problem in elevating their status to observer state status in the UN?

It totally ignores Israeli sovereignty over palestinian land?

What sovereignity?

They are internationally recognised as occupied territories - Israel does not have any sovereign rights to them. This is why the building of settlements is so controversial, it is essentially an annexation of land which they do not have sovereignity over.

The UN says alot of things, half the nations voting are basically dictatorships or Jewish hating nations, or vote so they don't upset their now large muslim populations.

Most UN members are democratic. The only ones that straight-up aren't are Cuba, Morocco, Algeria, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Equatorial Guinea, Belarus, the CAR, the Sudan, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Syria, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, and North Korea

A lot of them are anti-colonial, but that should be obvious because a lot of them are former colonies, who sympathize with Palestine far more than Israel (who represents old colonial oppression and is backed up by the former colonial establishment)