The U.N. General Assembly strongly supported a nonbinding Palestinian resolution Wednesday...
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly strongly supported a nonbinding Palestinian resolution Wednesday demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year. The vote in the 193-member world body was 124-14, with 43 abstentions. Israel ’s U.N. Ambassador, Danny Danon , called it “a shameful decision that backs the Palestinian Authority ’s diplomatic terrorism.” “Instead of marking the anniversary of the Oct.
” Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. ambassador, stressed that any country that thinks the Palestinian people “will accept a life of servitude” or that claims peace is possible without a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “not being realistic.” The solution remains an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, living side by side in peace and security with Israel, he said. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
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