Why's America trying to prevent the acknowledgment of a state of Palestine in the UN?

The US would oppose a UN vote on recognizing Palestine because this action would support international law and the vote undermines international law.

A) the UN has no authority to vote on this.

In 1948, the UN only had authority because the UK ruled that land. And the UK had the full authority to do as they wish and THEY gave the authority to the UN.

No one has such authority now, which brings us to B.

B) According to International Law and UN SC Res 242, the land in question does not belong to Israel NOR does it belong to a state of Palestine Nor does it belong to anyone else.

Under UN SC Res 242, the land in question is in legal limbo and belongs to no state UNTIL and unless all relevant parties peacefully negotiate final status borders. Until then it may be administered by Israel.

And the Arab side has rejected peaceful negotiation or violated every obligation negotiated. So, providing a new state through any other means is illegal under international law.

C) In fact, the entire vote constitutes an "end run" around the law.

Instead of seeking peace and negotiating final status borders AND recognizing Israel's right to exist safely AND not attacking Israel, they teach and preach that 100% of Israel must be destroyed, they incite violence and attack Israel, they get as much land as possible through negotiation and violate all of their obligations under the treaty and then they unilaterally seek the rest of what they want through a UN vote.

It actually sounds eerily like Arafat's 1975 "Phased plan for Israel's destruction" which called for negotiating peace treaties to get as much land as possible and then violating the agreements and using all land won through negotiation as a launching pad for destroying Israel once and for all. And both Arafat and other PA ministers have repeatedly said (since Olso) that this plan is still in effect.

And it rewards bad behavior.

PS: Yes. the UK did have the power. And before them, it was the Ottoman empire (ok 2 of them). That patch of land has not been independent since the Romans conquered the Jewish nation of Judea.

At least as importantly, let's not confuse private ownership with sovereignty. UK had sovereignty. UK did NOTHING to private ownership. They did not take any Arab owned property and give it to anyone else. Jews legally purchased land from Arab landowners, at high prices, and then the Arabs tried to kill the Jews and keep the money and the land.

When the UK gave it to the UN and the UN voted to create Israel, it did so based on democratic principles and reasonable fear of more ethnic cleansing. When 80% of Palestine was granted independence in 1946 and renamed Jordan, they ethnically cleansed all Palestinian Jews from that 80% of Palestine just as they did from Sfad in the 1800's and Hebron in 1929. The result was that the remaining 20% of Palestine had all the Jews from all Israel + Jordan in it. And Israel was only created out of areas that were majority Jewish.

2000 years? 2000 Years go the only inhabitants were Jews and Romans. The first Arabs didn't even invade until 632 CE. And most "Palestinian Arabs" immigrated post 1920's.

Because it goes against the Neocon agenda of Western Rule Imperialism and sanctioning where people should settle and live in the Middle East and Africa by the Persian Gulf. These people are beginning to be sovereign economically and Israel is a Nuclear Bastion on the USA side to intimidate Sovereign Iran. Even though Israel was never sanctioned to have those weapons

Not at all. It's because all Palestine seems to care about, just going by what we see, is war, not an actual nation. They don't want a productive nation that offers its population jobs or contributes somehow to the globe. Israel took a strip of sand and developed it into a nation with industries, jobs, agriculture, democracy and they indeed contribute in nearly every industry, from technology to supplying Europe with produce. They developed irrigation methods to grow food, governments that are relatively stable, a society.

What has Palestine done? Israel took land in 1968 because they were provoked. And, if they hadn't, it would today be a strip of sand with no purpose.

incredibly, if human beings actual got here to the States and asked widely used human beings in regards to the Palestine and Israel situation, they might discover out that we produce different issues to rigidity approximately. i do no longer care approximately Israel or the Palestinians having their own state.