Palestine requests full membership in the UN

[Rattler]

“We are going to the Security Council. We need to have full membership in the United Nations…we need a state, and we need a seat at the UN,” Abbas told Palestinians in a televised speech on September 16.

From http://revista-amauta.org/2011/09/another-%E2%80%98symbolic-victory%E2%80%99-abbas%E2%80%99-new-political-gambit/

I have witten a slightly lengthy article on my stance about that move at another forum, want to share it here and hear what the forumites takes on the Palestinian move are.

Rattler

[MontyB]

I think the move is the only one left to the Palestinians, if they allow the current process to continue they will have nothing left to negotiate for as Israel is determined to colonise as much as they can under the pretext of negotiating and I fully agree with the Palestinian argument that peace talks can not resume until Israel stops it settlement building on occupied lands.

I am convinced that the reason Israel is opposed to this is because that once the borders of Palestine are recognised in the UN Israeli expansionism will have to end.