Recently, the draft of Palestine's "accession to the United Nations" has attracted the attention of the international community, and like Palestine's application for "accession to the United Nations" 13 years ago, it is basically no problem to discuss it at the UN General Assembly, because more than 190 member states of the United Nations, at least 130 of which support the admission of Palestine as a member state, but this key point lies in the United States, which is responsible for the voting process in the Security Council. As everyone knows, the United States favors Israel and has been doing so for decades, facilitating Israel's rampant hegemony in the Middle East and causing trouble everywhere, adding fuel to the fire since the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In the face of this situation, the United States really favored Israel and vetoed the draft resolution admitting Palestine as a member.
On April 18, the UN Security Council voted to admit Palestine as a full member of the UN, but the draft was vetoed by the United States and failed to pass. It has been learned that there were 12 votes in favor of this vote, while the United States voted against one, and Britain and Switzerland abstained twice; according to the relevant rules of the Security Council, at least nine members must be in favor of the vote in order to be adopted, and none of the five permanent members can use the veto power.
Thus, the text of what has been called the "shortest draft resolution" in the history of the Security Council, "The Security Council examined the application of the State of Palestine for membership in the United Nations and recommended to the General Assembly that the State of Palestine be admitted to membership in the United Nations", was vetoed by the United States. You must know that in 2011, Palestine applied for it, but it was still the opposition of the United States and Western countries, which interrupted the process of Palestine's "accession to the United Nations". Today, 13 years later, Palestine has been unjustly treated again, and its long-cherished wish for an independent state has been interrupted by the United States.
On the one hand, as long as the UN Security Council and the General Assembly do not formally admit Palestine as a member state, then Palestine will not be able to obtain the right to make motions and votes as an observer state, which means that Palestine's status as a sovereign state has not been authoritatively confirmed by the international community. Therefore, this provides an excuse and convenience for Israel to restrict and suppress the Palestinians, and even to slander and smear the Palestinians, and Israel's insistence on carrying out military operations in the Gaza Strip is to a large extent based on this so-called "de jure" rhetoric.
On the other hand, without the formal "accession of Palestine to the United Nations," the "two-state solution" cannot be truly implemented. You must know that Israel is very afraid of this plan, and this time it has viciously attacked Palestine's application as "violating the UN Charter and the spirit of the Charter." It is an attempt to muddy the application for "joining the United Nations." As a result of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which has dragged on for more than half a year, more and more European countries have come to realize that the real way out of the Palestinian-Israeli issue is to truly implement the "two-state solution." Palestine declared its founding in 1988 and has not formally become a member of the United Nations for nearly 40 years now, precisely because of the obstruction of the United States and Israel.
This time, the United States not only put pressure on Palestine to "withdraw" its application, but also lobbied other countries to prepare to organize a dignified Palestinian "accession to the United Nations" without using the "veto." This has indeed had some effect, for example, Britain and Switzerland abstained from voting. Although the United States is still a little vague in the face of the Palestinian application this time, which may be done to show the Netanyahu government and put some pressure on it, it still exercised its veto power. Why, then, did the United States "defy the condemnation of the whole world" and use its "one-vote veto" to repeatedly oppose Palestine's membership in the United Nations?
First, this serves the Middle East strategy of the United States, which wants to prop up Israel, which is running rampant and hegemonic in the Middle East. The Chinese side has directly singled out the small calculations of the United States. Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the United Nations and ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, said: The United States does not support Palestine becoming a full member of the United Nations out of political calculations.
Ambassador Bocong's remarks make it clear that the United States intends to support Israel's continued encroachment on the Palestinian territories. Israel's continuous expansion of settlements in the West Bank, the continuous squeezing of the living space of Palestine as a state, and the continuous erosion of the foundation of the "two-state solution", the longer it drags on, the more detrimental it is to the genuine independence of Palestine and its membership in the United Nations. It is really outrageous that the United States is still doing everything possible to make things difficult and obstructive here.
Second, the various excuses used by the United States to oppose Palestine's membership of the United Nations this time are really "talking about Palestine left and right." Fu Cong, a representative of the Chinese side, pointed out that the countries concerned have also questioned whether Palestine meets the membership requirements of the UN Charter, implying that it is still a question of whether Palestine is "peace-loving." It can be said that such an excuse by the United States is a blatant insult to the Palestinian people, and there should be no people in the world who yearn for peace more than them, and they have been living in fear of Israel for decades, especially the people of Gaza are faced with the situation of Israel's cleverly seizing land and constantly encroaching on their own homeland, which is the fundamental reason for the Palestinian people's resistance.
Besides, before the United States uses the excuse that the Palestinian people are "not peace-loving," please examine itself: Has there been less wars of aggression launched over the past few decades? There are countless acts of aggression, coup d'état, and subversive actions, which have brought untold suffering to the local people. Moreover, the Palestinian-Israeli issue, which is a difficult problem in the world, is not caused by the stubborn support for Israel by a "non-peace-loving" country like the United States? The United States has not properly reflected on how much negative impact its actions have brought to the Middle East region, and has even insulted the Palestinian people by beating them back, causing them a second harm.
In short, if the United States and Israel deliberately ignore the voices of the Palestinian people, especially if they adopt a hostile blockade attitude towards the people of the Gaza Strip, they will only further deteriorate the situation in Gaza and even in the Middle East, continue to erode the foundation of the "two-state solution", and fail to create favorable conditions for Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. Now that Israel has begun to retaliate against Iran, if the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continues, it can only allow the risk crisis to spill over and cause a wider negative impact.