Palestinians win de facto U.N. recognition of sovereign state
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters)A speech to be remembered . . .
"Sixty-five years
ago on this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution
181, which partitioned the land of historic Palestine into two states
and became the birth certificate for Israel," Abbas told the assembly
after receiving a standing ovation.
"The General
Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the
reality of the State of Palestine," he said."
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The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the world body to issue its long overdue "birth certificate."
The U.N. victory for the Palestinians was a diplomatic setback for the United States and Israel, which were joined by only a handful of countries in voting against the move to upgrade the Palestinian Authority's observer status at the United Nations to "non-member state" from "entity," like the Vatican.
There were 138
votes in favor, nine against and 41 abstentions. Three countries did not
take part in the vote, held on the 65th anniversary of the adoption of
U.N. resolution 181 that partitioned Palestine into separate Jewish and
Arab states.
Thousands of
flag-waving Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip set off
fireworks and danced in the streets to celebrate the vote.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, attends Christmas Midnight Mass at
Saint Catherine's Church in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, early Tuesday,
Dec. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Abed Al Hashlamoun, Pool)
Below is the post I made over a year ago.
Palestinian children stand to form Pablo Picasso's Dove of Peace as part of a project by British aerial artist John Quigley and the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), at the foot of the Mount of Temptation in the West Bank city of Jericho November 25, 2011. It took some 1000 children from United Nations schools to create the project produced as part of the "Peace on Earth" project, a global musical prayer for peace which will be broadcast globally from Bethlehem's Manger Square on Christmas day, a U.N. press release said. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT)
A peaceful march is highlighted with music, traditional songs/dances/attires and colorful banners containing slogans with peaceful and tactful political statements and or praises. On the sidewalks are food and drinks for free or for a fee. Unarmed human shield and participants are interlocked with one another with watchful eyes on their left, right, front and rear for any suspicious infiltrators aimed in maligning and destroying the purpose of a peaceful demonstration.
A Palestinian man works on Bethlehem's Christmas tree in Manger Square, outside the Church of Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
Media are invited to record the events, videos and cameras are placed on focal points on the ground and on the roofs to document the occasion and celfon's cameras/video are readily available for family memoirs.
25,000 peacefully demonstrate against
G20 policies in Toronto
Uploaded by TVACdotCA on Jun 27, 2010
What the media ignored: 25,000 peacefully demonstrate against G20 policies and the Harper government in Toronto. Unlike what you have likely seen on CBC or CTV, this is what the majority of activists were doing on Saturday in Toronto.Copyright © 2010 Toronto Video Activist Collective
However a mass movement can’t guarantee a peaceful march from any untoward repercussion. It is open to infiltrators and provocateurs including uncontrolled passion of grudges and resentments from both sides.
Careful and exact measures have to be taken to ensure a non violent expression of freedom of speech and rights for this intended march.
If Palestine
Bethlehem girls around 1918. On their heads a saffeh can be seen. The girl on the left is wearing a saba 'arwah or 'seven spirits' chin ornament
Old Bedouin woman from southern Palestine
at the grinding stone, ca. 1930
Mounted Arabian Knight - Palestine
Palestinian refugees (British Mandate of Palestine - 1948).
"Making their way from Galilee in October-November 1948".
Front cover of The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem by Benny Morris
Author: Fred Csasznik
All above photos are sourced from public domain - Wiki Commons
Sands of Sorrow (1950)
Producer: Council for the Relief of
Palestine Arab Refugees;
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
Faith and Charity overcome difficulties and
Hope is its pillar that fortifies everything!!!
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