Palestinians get Unesco seat as 107 vote in favour

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by Skybird

On the UNESCO decision, something else: there are the treaties of Oslo which explicitly have ruled that neither side should create facts changing the status of a Palestinian state unilaterally as long as this state does not result from mutal agreement in negotiations. This Oslo treaty, whatever it is worth, is being violated by the Palestinians as well, obviously.

Might be true legally, but morally this is a ridiculously unfair treaty in such a case. By your description, it simply says that Israel can deny Palestinians independence as long as it wants.

No wonder the Palestinians are resorting to bombing attacks...