The move blocked a resolution to support a status that Palestinians had long sought at the United Nations, where it is considered a “nonmember observer state.”

The United Nations Security Council met in New York on Thursday to address issues in the Middle East, including the Palestinian bid for statehood.
The United States blocked the U.N. Security Council on Thursday from moving forward on a Palestinian bid to be recognized as a full member state at the United Nations, quashing an effort by Palestinian allies to get the world body to back the effort.

The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, had described the bid for full-member status as an effort “to take our rightful place among the community of nations.”
But Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, on Thursday denounced the resolution that went before the Security Council as a “prize for terror.” He added: “The U.N. is no longer about multilateralism, sadly. It is now committed to multiterrorism.”

The vote was 12 in favor of the resolution and one — the United States — opposed, with two abstentions.

The Security Council has consistently called for a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a result that has failed to materialize during negotiations between the two sides. In Washington, a spokesman for the State Department, Vedant Patel, said the statehood resolution was dead on arrival.

“It remains the U.S. view that the most expeditious path toward statehood for the Palestinian people is through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority with the support of the United States and other partners,” Mr. Patel told reporters at a news briefing on Thursday.

The United States, along with the four other permanent members of the Council, can veto any action before it. On Thursday afternoon, during a high-profile Council meeting to address issues in the Middle East, including the Palestinian bid for statehood, the United States, a staunch ally of Israel’s, wielded that veto.

The resolution had asked the 15-member Security Council to recommend to the 193-member U.N. General Assembly that “the State of Palestine be admitted to membership of the United Nations,” diplomats say. To pass, the application needed to be approved by the Security Council with at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States, Britain, France, Russia or China. Then, at least two-thirds of the General Assembly would have had to approved it.

Israel was admitted as a full U.N. member in 1949. The Palestinian Authority has been seeking a state made up of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip for decades; those territories have all been captured or annexed by Israel. The Arab League founded the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1964 with a charter stressing self-determination for Palestinians and the rejection of the creation of the State of Israel.

Little progress has been made on achieving statehood since Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed the Oslo Accords in the early 1990s, which established a peace process aimed at a two-state solution. In 2007, the militant group Hamas drove the Palestinian Authority, which President Mahmoud Abbas leads and which exercises limited self-rule in the occupied West Bank, from power in the Gaza Strip.

Complicating the Palestinian application for statehood is the war that began when Hamas led terrorist attacks on Israel that killed about 1,200 people and prompted Israel’s retaliatory attacks in Gaza, killing more than 33,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and displacing more than one million people. The conflict has spilled into the occupied West Bank and neighboring countries like Lebanon and has drawn Iran into the fray.

The statehood push also comes as Israel expands settlements in the West Bank.

The Palestinians asserted statehood in 1988 with a declaration of independence. In November that year, the General Assembly voted to upgrade their status from “observer” to “nonmember observer state.”

The push for Palestinian statehood has picked up momentum around the world, with politicians in countries like Britain, France, Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and Sweden signaling their support to formally recognize a Palestinian state as a way to try to end the Israel-Palestinian conflict. As of April 2022, 138 countries and the Holy Seehave recognized the State of Palestine.

There are two ways to become a full member state at the United Nations. One can apply to the Security Council and the membership committee will consider it. A Council member can also introduce a resolution on membership for a vote.

The Palestinian Authority applied for statehood to the United Nations in September 2011, but it dropped the bid less than two months later because of a lack of support and pressure from the United States, which said it would veto any application.

After Mr. Abbas revived the statehood bid this year, the Biden administration sought to convince him to shelve it, according to Axios and The Times of Israel. But Mr. Abbas rebuffed those efforts, the reports said.

“All we ask for is to take our rightful place among the community of nations — to be treated as equals, equals to other nations and states, to live in freedom and dignity, in peace and security in our ancestral land,” said Mr. Mansour, the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations.

“Recognition of the State of Palestine and its membership are not enough by themselves to end this illegal occupation,” he added. “But they are the first step towards this urgent and long-overdue goal.”

The Council’s committee on the admission of new members met twice last week to discuss the Palestinians’ application, but it could not reach a unanimous decision. Under Council guidelines that allow a member to introduce a resolution for a vote, Algeria, the Council’s only Arab member, put forward the Palestinian application.

Algeria’s foreign minister, Ahmed Ataf, said on Thursday that statehood “is a historic right which has not been implemented, and the lack of implementation of this right is the cause of the prolongation of this Arab-Israeli conflict.”

During the Council meeting on Thursday, a representative of the Palestinian Authority, Ziad Abu Amr, asked, “How could granting the State of Palestine full membership at the United Nations, similar to other countries around the world, how could this damage the prospect of peace between Palestinians and Israelis?”

He added, “This resolution will grant hope to the Palestinian people, hope for a decent life in an independent Palestinian state.”

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Two men, wearing suits and with translation devices in their right ears, sit at a table before a placard reading “State of Palestine.”
Ziad Abu-Amr, left, a representative of the Palestinian Authority, and Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, at the Security Council meeting on Thursday.Credit...Angela Weiss/Agence France-Presse — Getty images
Mr. Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, said on Thursday before the vote, “The only thing that forced, unilateral recognition of a Palestinian State will do is to make any future negotiations almost impossible.”

He accused the United Nations of being guided by politics, calling the resolution a “destructive approach” that was making a solution “unattainable.”

The vote was originally supposed to take place on Friday, but Algeria and the Arab Group of nations wanted it on Thursday during a scheduled session on the Middle East conflict attended by many foreign ministers from regional countries, including Iran and Turkey.

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jazzman7711:

It starts from telling the TRUTH.
You cannot build anything positive on a foundation of LIES.
Even the ‘Jesus’ you worship, if he really existed, was a BLACK MAN, whose story was DISTORTED by the Romans.
Did Russian president Putin not recently release thousands of images showing the ancient Hebrews were depicted as BLACKS?
Has that made you people tear down your white Jesus images from your walls?
NOPE.
Because worshiping a black Jesus negates your British brainwashed state, which is to worship the WHITE MAN.
You actually HATE to see images of the Black Jesus.
It feels like an abomination to you.
The British did a proper job on your heads.

MaxInDHouse:


What about Egypt?

Some historians claimed that Egypt is where Africa began but all that is story now what we need is a global family not the race that first existed.
So if you want to make sense to intelligent people think of how you and others around the world can become brothers and sisters working towards making the world a better place for us all.
That's what God wants not stories of who first enslaved the other through civilization!

sheDD:


Is a risky venture
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U took ur assessment today too, how did it go??

Amedino99:
Was anyone able to take the test on their phone?

ISelectMySins:


Sorry, I was running out of battery so I was just typing.

Most Teaching hospitals are federally-owned (not all) and the federal government uses a template whereby every state is supposed to have a "big" federal hospital which would either go by the name of a federal medical center (if there's no fed institution in the state or if the federal institution doesn't offer medicine or if there is a state hospital by that name) or a Teaching hospital (if it does). It seems the Teaching hospital in your pics is owned by the state government (not the federal government) since LASU offers medicine, too. Hence, the federal government still deems it necessary to create a "big" federal hospital in the state.

Edit: I looked at the images you posted again and it seems I am right. The Federal medical center was established (1964) around the time Unilag was created which hints that Unilag might not offer medicine at the time it was created. The federal hospital in Lagos state is called the Federal Medical center, not a teaching hospital. The Teaching hospital is state-owned.