Entry 13

European countries divided ahead of Palestinian statehood bid

Fox News (via Associated Press), November 29, 2012


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/28/european-countries-divided-ahead-of-palestinian-statehood-bid/

Summary

Recognition of Palestine's statehood is hotly debated in the UN General Assembly right now. While two thirds of the member states have already agreed upon recognizing Palestine's statehood, European and American nations are sharply divided to accept its request. The countries which go for accepting Palestine's request argues that Palestine has rights to be recognized as a sovereign state which can have an equal power to negotiate with Israel, so recognizing Palestine as a state is a separate issue that does not require the negotiation of both Israel and Palestine. In contrary, several countries, including the United States, Israel, and Britain, aver that recognition of Palestine's statehood only deters the peaceful approach of dealing the action by unilaterally imposing actions to Israel without consent and strongly expressed their opinion that they would not vote for the recognition.

My opinion

Accepting Palestine is not an issue that Israel is required to intervene. Even though Israel is directly related to PLO issue, it is the right of Palestine to be recognized as a neutral sovereign states in UN, and the opinion that direct involvement of Israel is necessary is a weak argument merely favors the United States and other nations allied with Israel. As a matter of fact, UN should acknowledge Palestine as a neutral state that has an equivalent power with Israel. Palestine may have seize more power due to the recognition; however, the world has been only favorable to Israel and the United States, and if the world steadily keeps this view, Zionism is merely the intrusion of Jews in Arabic country where Arabians have lived for thousands of years.