Palestinians Seek to Upgrade UN Status

Besieged Palestinian Gaza is an experiment in provocation. Stuff one and a half million people into a tiny space, stifle their access to water, electricity, food and medical treatment, destroy their livelihoods, and humiliate them regularly...and, surprise, surprise - they turn hostile. Now why would you want to make that experiment? Because the hostility you provoke is the whole point. Now under attack you can cast yourself as the victim, and call out the helicopter gunships and the F16 attack fighters and the heavy tanks and the guided missiles, and destroy yet more of the pathetic remains of infrastructure that the Palestinian state still has left. And then you can point to it as a hopeless case, unfit to govern itself, a terrorist state, a state with which you couldn't possibly reach an accommodation. And then you can carry on with business as usual, quietly stealing their homeland.

The Jewish state has replicated the Warsaw Ghetto in besieged Palestine and wreaked horrors upon its inmates for generations in gross violation International Law. Upgrade to UN “observer state” will recognize statehood and allow Palestine to petition the Hague International Criminal Court. Hopefully, it will convict the Israeli criminals, impose punitive reparations, and somehow force an end to the Jewish state's paranoid pursuit of invulnerability, territorial conquest and supremacist empire.

This is one of the most ridiculous "reports" I have read in awhile. The Palestinians were offered their own state WAY back in 1947. Rather than accept a state that would have a Jewish state in its immediate area, they decided to become a nation of "refugees."

How many times has Israel attempted to work with the Arabs? How many times have the Arabs tossed the equivalent of "the finger?"

The incredible lies that have been told about Israel should amaze the entire world. More Jews were deported from Arab countries than deliberately left Israel when their Grand Mufti told them to leave so that the Arabs could kill all the Jews.

Every single Jew who had been thrown out of Arab countries were welcomed into Israel and were made citizens. The Arab countries simply isolated their own people refusing to permit them to become citizens. They have deliberately prevented them from becoming citizens in order to keep them as pawns so that the world would still think of them as "refugees."

Israel wants peace and have wanted peace for decades, it is the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians who refuse to go to the table. Look at what Arafat did when he was offered almost 100% of what he supposedly wanted only to turn it down and start yet another massacre against innocent Israelis.

Speaking of massacres, who was it that lobbed countless rockets into Israel to kill CIVILIANS? THINK! Israel forced their own citizens to leave the Gaza only to have the Arabs deliberately target civilians in Israel. Keep in mind that Israel is the ONLY DEMOCRACY in the Middle East. It is also the only country in that part of the world that permits people from all over the world to become citizens, not only Jews. All religions are permitted.

EVERY SINGLE ARAB STATE IS APARTHEID. Only ONE religion is permitted: Islam...but which Islam is the real Islam? They kill each other over differences in each other's views.

The so-called Palestinians are demanding that the Capitol of Judaism, Jerusalem, be their Capitol. Why? The Jewish scriptures mention Jerusalem hundreds of times. The Koran NEVER mentions Jerusalem. For three thousand years Jerusalem has been the heart beat of Judaism; it has never been an Arab city.

The "West Bank" is, in reality, Judea and Samara. The Jordanians, when they unlawfully occupied Judea and Samara during their attempt to destroy Israel renamed it the "West Bank."

The number of lies that are told about that area and Israel are too numerous to mention here, they should NEVER have anything close to statehood until they sit down with Israel and work things out. Until then, NO.

I think one of the minimal requirements of being a 'state' is that you control yourself and your people do not attack civilians as a non-stop 'right', never-ending.

I would like to see the Kurds be included in any such talks, they are not at perpetual war, attacking innocent civilians whenever possible, as an absolute right. They're pretty much peaceful, they should be considered FIRST. All they want to do is live in peace, and even will do so even if they don't have a country of their own. That's WHY they should be considered FIRST, they are civilized.

There are no words. Why do we go to war for oil,land grabbing to capture the resources of other countries waste huge money on jet fighters bombs yet allow children to be brutalized, tortured and murdered. In the name of what? Freedom - such an entitled and neglected gift by those who have it, such a precious and costly need for those who don't.