Palestinians submit statehood bid to U.N.
By Column Lynch, Updated: Friday, September 23, 12:21 PM
“UNITED NATIONS — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday formally presented U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon an application for Palestinian membership as a state in the United Nations, setting the stage for the certain defeat of the measure in the U.N. Security Council, where the United States has threatened to block it.”
Cassi Creek:
Just prior to Abbas’ speech would-be-Palestinians demonstrated “peacefully” in the West Bank by throwing rocks and bottles at Israeli police and burning tires in the road. No injuries were reported. Another such demonstration took place between would-be-Palestinians and a group of Israeli settlers. The second “peaceful” demonstration reportedly produced one fatality.
The would-be-Palestinians have had 64 years to form and maintain a state on the land assigned them by the partition settlement that simultaneously created Israel. Instead, parts of that land were annexed by Lebanon and Jordon while the Arab states attempted in several wars to destroy Israel. After 64 years of failure to create their own state, they now want the UN to step in and give them Israeli land, with its attached infrastructure.
The would-be-Palestinians have repeatedly refused to negotiate in good faith. No other nation on Earth would be asked to accept 6 million hostile immigrants into its territory. No other nation on Earth has been asked to return land taken in a defensive battle. And Israel should not be asked to give up Jerusalem. Islamic claims to Jerusalem fail to take into account the continual presence of Jews in Jerusalem since it was made the capital of Biblical Israel.
Netanyahu spoke at the UN but the applause was much too thin.
Autumn arrived today at 0409. We are officially marching toward winter. That must explain the spring-like thunderstorms we’ve been having this week.
We closed the pool for the season. In attempting to dry out the existing solar blanket, we managed to catch Gloria’s right hand in the roller frame. She was in such pain that her initial scream scared Loki. We were able to free her hand. There is no apparent open skin injury. Her 1st, 2nd and 3rd fingers were badly bruised but she seems to have escaped other injury. She has near-normal function and good capillary refill. There’s no crepitus and no malformation. . I feel absolutely horrible about her injury. We were extremely lucky that she sustained no greater injury.
Shabbat Shalom!
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