The Palestinian application for full membership of the United Nations will remain in safe hands, or two safe hands to be precise, those belonging to Lebanon's Ambassador Nawaf Salam, the President of the Security Council until the end of the month. After that, well, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. I became tearful as I heard Abu Mazen delivering his speech on behalf of Palestine in the General Assembly last week, and so did Nawaf. While a man may adopt any posture he likes, tears are more honest, and the Lebanese ambassador came across as a patriot as I know him to be, while Benjamin Netanyahu came across as a liar and an international terrorist, also as I know him to be. The Israeli impostor claimed that Hezbollah controls the Lebanese government, and that subsequently, a terrorist organization is heading the body responsible for ensuring security around the world. I say that Hezbollah is a national liberation movement confronting Israeli terrorism, Nazism and racism, and that Israel is the biggest threat to world security. The president of the council, meanwhile, is an Arab from Lebanon and he hails from a well-known family, and is not a Khazari immigrant who changed his family name like Netanyahu, because he is a mongrel like every Israeli Prime Minister before him. It is a fact that each and every one of them had changed his or her family name. After Abu Mazen's speech, I went with Nawaf Salam to the office of the President of the Council. He summoned some members of the Secretariat for consultation on dealing with the Palestinian application. If he could have, he would have gathered the members in the afternoon to hand them the application. However, that was impossible since the 15 member states must be notified in advance of the time and reason for the meeting. Thus, the Council met on Monday and received the application, and it was decided that the application would be considered on Wednesday, where I believe it would probably be referred to the Membership Committee composed of one representative from each member state of the Security Council. I know that the President will also seek to hold another meeting of the Security Council to discuss this issue this week, before Lebanon's presidency expires. Nigeria will succeed Lebanon as President of the Security Council next month, and it along with Gabon are supposed to be among the African group that unanimously endorsed the Palestinian application. However, the United States is putting immense pressure on both countries, and also on Bosnia. The United States is attempting to convince the Palestinians that they will not get a majority of nine votes in the Council otherwise required for their application to be passed, at which point the U.S. would be compelled to cast its veto to overturn it. The United States does not want for this to happen so as not to infuriate the Arabs and Muslims further against the Obama administration, although it is impossible to fool them with the outcome of a vote against the Palestinians. For one thing, this can only happen under American pressure, i.e. a stance that backs the occupation, killings, and terrorism, and yet dares tell the Palestinians that international resolutions do not create a homeland, and that the only way forward is through negotiations. The Palestinians have been engaged in peace talks since 1993, without achieving anything. Perhaps they would have succeeded in the nineties, were it not for the terrorist Netanyahu who served as Prime Minister of Israel between 1996 and 1999. He thus ruined the chance for peace before Bill Clinton could make a breakthrough in his second term, a breakthrough that would have culminated with the establishment of the State of Palestine on 22 percent only of Palestinian land. I say to the terrorist impostor and his government and the settler rabbis that all of the land belongs to Palestine, from the Sea to the River, and they are nothing but murderers and thieves. I say to President Obama, as well, that he achieved nothing through negotiations, from early 2009 until near the end of 2011, and will not achieve anything either. Even at the Security Council, the Palestinians have a majority of the world's population on their side. It is sufficient that China, India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa support them, for us to find that of the 15 nations out of 193- the member states of the UN- [in the Security Council], five nations have a sufficient number of people to provide a worldwide numerical majority in support of the Palestinian bid. The situation now is such that if the United States cannot ensure that the Palestinians will not receive the support of nine countries – thereby sparing it the need to use its veto-, the U.S. can obstruct the Palestinian endeavor and delay it indefinitely by asking for further clarifications, expressing objections or making reservations. The Arab bloc is aware of this. However, it has resolved that it is better not to return immediately to the General Assembly, where a majority is guaranteed, in order not to appear fickle, as it vacillates between the Security Council and the General Assembly. I believe that the Arab bloc will most probably wait a month or so before deciding whether to carry on with its efforts through the Security Council or whether it should return to the General Assembly. In the meantime, Israel has no one in the world to defend it except for the Obama administration, i.e. the President who said last year that he hoped that Palestine would be welcomed as a member in the United Nations, and his country that once was the hope of the world as a pioneer of human rights, and ended up with a fascist occupation state running its foreign policy. [email protected]
