What infuriates me so much about this situation, is that the United States is so against it. The United states claims that only continued peace negotiations between the two parties in the long bloody battle would achieve statehood. In doing some research today, there are other states that are just as questionable, but remember Israel is a state, since 1947, Palestine is not. Maybe the playing field needs to be levelled.
Since the late 1970s Afganistan has been in a constant state of war, involving militants, extreamists,drug cartels, trafficers, and the taliban. Over the last decade with the war in Afganistan the United States and Canada have spent billions trying to keep the peace. I think the only thing the Americans keep is close watch on is the pipeline through the country. This country is a member state eventhough recently extreamists and possible governments hid the world's most wanted terrorist for years.
Kuwait was invaded and annexed by Iraq in the early 1990s. The seven month occupation ceased due to USA troop intervention. The Americans helped out for one reason--protect the oil and petroleum reserves. Kuwait is the 11th richest country in the world with 95% of its exports being oil. I think it is safe to say that the USA needed an ally in the gulf.
Iran and Iraq are both member states of the United Nations eventhough each country has invaded, and occupied other states by force. Libya has been ruled by Gaddafi since a military style coup in 1969. In 1977 Libya ordered strikes against Egypt for a proposed pease treaty with Israel, and Libya supplied arms to rebels in Chad that turned into an invasion the same year. In 1986, with terrorism on the rise, Libya bombed a commercial jet killing hundreds of innocent people. The United Nations still has Libya as a member even with the autrocities going on currently.
Although Pakistan has the largest number of it's military in United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, it has a recent history of hiding out and supporting the taliban and its' followers. Currently Pakistan is embattled with extream Islamic militants in its own country.
Back in 1991, the USA went to the gulf war and many US troops were stationed in Saudi Arabia--protecting oil...The Saudi-US relations have strained since then due to 9/11. Osama Bin Laden and more than 3/4 of the suicide highjckers were from Saudi Arabia. Since the terror attacks on New York, many speculate that the country supports terrorism and extream Jihadism.
Then there is Israel(this will be a loaded paragraph---I AM NOT ANTI-SEMETIC) This area of the middle east has been under states of war, sieges, and armed conflicts for more than 2000 years, so I will try to keep things to the later part of the twentieth century. After the creation of Israel in 1947 various mid-east countries attcked, and this back and forth attacking between Israel and its' neighbors continues even to today.
When Palestine comes to the United Nations and askes for consideration for membership, why would the United States veto the request? There are other member countries that have behaved badly, but it seems that economic and United Nation sactions are enough to put a bandaid on the situations for the short term anyway. So this would be a great step for the Palestine people, solidifing their homeland as an offical United Nations member? Would this not promote peace, or at the very least negotiations between Israel and Palestine, and ease tensions throughout the mid-east?
So why would the United States not want this? Perhaps the mid-east area is better economically for the United States if their is conflict. It is much easier to have thousands of American troops in the mid-east (just in case) as democratic saviors. (they are really protecting the oil folks). Due to confict, the price of oil remains high, the rich get richer. So back in 1947, when the United Nations partitioned off Palestine and made Israel a state, what happened to the other half? Why would you not make Palestine a state then too?
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