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They're in!

Not surpisingly, the UN overwhelmingly voted for the admission of Palestine to the UN with Observer State status.    It is shameful to think that the move was either opposed (and these are the countries which voted against - Israel, United States, Canada, Czech Republic, Panama, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau) - or that 41countries, most likely intimidated or coward by the Israel/Jewish lobby, abstained.

What does it mean?     From Australians for Palestine, the ramifications, as explained by Professor of International Law in Chicago:

"This can be the start of a 'Legal Intifadah' by Palestine
against Israel:

1. "Palestine can join the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court
and file a Complaint with the ICC against the illegal settlements and
settlers, who are committing war crimes;

2. "Palestine can join the Statute for the International Court of Justice,
sue Israel at the World Court, and break the illegal siege of Gaza;

3. "Palestine can join the Law of the Sea Convention and get its fair share
of the enormous gas fields lying off the coast of Gaza, thus becoming
economically self-sufficient;

4. "Palestine can become a High Contracting Party to the Four Geneva
Conventions [this deals with the laws of war];

5. "Palestine can join the International Civil Aviation Organization and
gain sovereign, legal control over its own airspace;

6. "Palestine can join the International Telecommunications Union and gain
sovereign legal control over its own airwaves, phone lines, bandwidths."

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