By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
NEW YORK/JERUSALEM (Worthy News) – Israel’s government was weighing its options Saturday after the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member in a move that Israel described as “a prize for Hamas.”
The 193-member General Assembly’s resolution “determines that the State of Palestine … should therefore be admitted to membership.”
It “recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter favorably” after the U.S. vetoed it last month.
If adopted by the Security Council, the move would effectively recognize a Palestinian state, just seven months after pro-Palestine Hamas entered Israel to kill some 1,200 people, including raped women and babies.
The October 7 massacre, seen by many anti-Israel protesters as “an act of resistance,” was the worst single atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, according to the Israeli government.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said the decision meant a “prize for Hamas” and added that the “absurd decision taken today at the U.N. General Assembly highlights the structural bias” of the United Nations.
That bias is among the leading “reasons why, under the leadership of U.N. Secretary-General [Antonio] Guterres, it has turned itself into an irrelevant institution,” Katz stressed in a statement.
The assembly adopted the resolution with 143 votes in favor and only nine against — including the U.S. and Israel — while 25 countries abstained.
It does not give the Palestinians full U.N. membership yet but recognizes them as qualified to join.
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