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A Setback for Israel? Spain Joins France in Plans to Back Palestinian State at the U.N.

Nov. 28, 2012 7:01am Billy Hallowell

Spain’s Mininster of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo gestures during a picture at the Moncloa palace in Madrid on November 27, 2012, during a cooperation meeting between Turkey and Spain. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

MADRID (TheBlaze/AP) — Spain’s foreign minister says Spain will vote in favor of recognition of a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly this week.

Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo told parliament Wednesday that Spain would support the Palestinian bid at the U.N., because it feels it is the best way to advance toward peace.

As TheBlaze reported on Tuesday, France became the first major European country to come out in favor of U.N. recognition, a move seen as a setback for Israel. The timing of the French move seemed to be rooted in an attempt to sway other European nations in the same direction. In Spain’s case, such a notion took root.

The assembly is expected to vote Thursday on a resolution raising their status at the United Nations from an observer to a nonmember observer state, a move they believe is an important step toward a two-state solution with Israel.

Europe is divided over the issue. Switzerland and Portugal have said they will vote for the measure, but Germany is among the countries that have opposed the bid. Britain’s position remains unclear.

Palestinians say they are doing this out of frustration over the four-year deadlock in peace efforts. They believe an endorsement of their state will bolster their negotiating position.

Israel strongly opposes the bid, accusing the Palestinians of trying to bypass negotiations. The resolution would endorse a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, the territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel opposes a pullback to the 1967 lines.

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BenFree
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:46am
“Europe has failed to learn the lessons which ravaged them in war. It’s the same disgusting behavior, only the methodology has changed. Instead of direct religious extremism, they mass import it from the Islamic world. Instead of herding millions of the most prolific intelligent innovators into the ovens of Auschwitz, Europe organized international committees, courts, NGOs, and corrupt media to libel, demonize, and delegitimize the relatives and progeny of the same six million living in their aggregate historic homeland, all to placate both their imported Islamic citizens who pray daily for another holocaust and their own historic hatred. Those pesky overachievers with relatively virtuous values are the first to get it when people become economically frustrated and envious. And Europe’s coming pain as a result of their impossible entitlement culture virtually ensures it. Why should the Europeans blame their economic hardships on a scientifically flawed political system of collectivism/socialism and coexistence with barbarism when they can blame the prosperous intelligent innovators who not only civilized the world, but make the world a better place with the goods and services to which Europe feels entitled? Europe believes that their adoption of political correctness gives them cover for their sins. But political correctness is just like clouds providing shade from the sunlight of truth. Eventually the truth shines through.” QUANTUM CAPITALISM

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- dwilco77
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:51am
  I think we should vote to make France a Palestenian State.
  
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- drbage
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:56am
  And the Obama regime has stated on numerous occasions that France is our best ally. The Palestinians are using this as a ruse to get what they want because nothing is ever their fault(just like Obama).
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 11:03am
  Ben, those “prolific intelligent innovators” are the ones pushing for international socialism. They are the heart and soul of communism. They founded communism. Through their un-assimilated communities throughout Europe and America they spread their communism like the plague that it is.
  
  You’re simply blind to the truth. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Zionism_versus_Bolshevism
  
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- AndYetItMoves
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 4:13pm
  Jerk – It really tickles me that psychotic anti-Semites can’t seem to decide if Jews are controlling worldwide financial capital or if they’re trying to overthrow it with international socialism.
  
  It also tickles me that all of the Blazers who trumpet about the sanctity of ‘God’s Israel’ always fail to mention that they simply want to get all the Jews into Israel so that their Revelations apocalypse scenario can begin to unfold, a scenario in which all Jews who fail to convert will be headed straight for the inferno. Sort of an elephant in the room for Christian fanatics who want a seat at the Israel debate. The sickest joke in this world is that people whose minds work this way are actually influencing policy in the nation with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.
  
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searcher619
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:30am
Last I checked Israel is a sovereign state. The UN has no power to take land from them and give it to these animals.

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- AndYetItMoves
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 4:33pm
  People who try to dehumanize others as ‘animals’ invariably tell you more about themselves than the object of their contempt. The phenomenon of white self-pity in this country is one of the more disgusting things I’ve ever witnessed, and its on the rise thanks to intellectual ghettos on web sites like this one.
  
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jessieH
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:30am
How much money do we give Spain & France? Maybe Soros & Hammas are giving them more. I hear it’s easy to buy favors from certain countries.

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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:21am
Maybe the movie theaters in Spain should play that old Charleton Heston movie, El Cid. It would remind them of their history.

Spain beleives that recognition would lead to peace. What fools. WWIII is on the way with France and Spain simply collateral damage.

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- ashestoashes
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:40am
  France has become over run with Muslims..just like Europe..We can thank the banksters..the Zionist Rothschilds European bankers..along with the other Zionists for bankrupting us and foreclosing on us in the 1860′s They have run the US as a Corporation since..that is why Congress answers to them instead of the people..The Arabs began the purchase of the US Presidency in 1979…But the Rothschilds/Rockerfellers 13 family unit still control the world..through the un Federal Reseve..the UN..Trilateral Commission ..the Trilateral Commission and the secret societies..I heard even China was at the Bilderberg meetings this year..Communism and Islam joined forces as early as 1941….Islam was created as a brutal heartless military for a political reason. started out to take Israel for the Vatican City..and I believe now for for massive world depopulation..make no mistake..hands are shaking and deals are struck behind closed doors..just the NWO coming closer to reality..In Joel Rosenbergs “Epicenter” which is written from Prophesy..he depicts the confusion in the last days and wars with the Commies and the Muslims turning on each other.. http://www.republicoftheunitedstates.org/what-is-the-republic/history/
  http://patdollard.com/2012/09/obama-vetting-1979-newspaper-article-by-valerie-jarrett-father-in-law-reveals-start-of-arab-purchase-of-u-s-presidency/
  
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- StandingOnMyHead
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 1:17pm
  @ASHESTOASHES
  Islam and communism actually joined forces as early as 1917 and in 1918 they formed the Commissariat for Muslim Affairs.
  
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Vickie Dhaene
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:00am
Was this part of the deal for bailout monies?

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DougHuffman
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:42am
Heh heh heh, but not Germany.

http://news.yahoo.com/germany-not-back-palestinian-u-n-bid-government-130743009.html;_ylt=A2KLOzJxD7ZQ.DsAzSfQtDMD

For what will you stand? For what will you die?

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- Individualism
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:01am
  probably because they don’t have a significant Muslim voting block that would consider backing them or not much Saudi Monarchy money falling in their parties hands. This issue is nothing more than political theater.
  
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SamIamTwo
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:33am
What these nations want to do is to deport their Muslims into the same area. Yeah, history tells me so. These so called Palestinians who were given Gaza by Israel are the outcasts of other Arab nations…and there has been a lot of talk of returning to their so called homeland. Talk in other nations such as Spain and France. So it would be natural for them to support this crap.

Just me thinking out loud.

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- Trigus
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:13am
  We know Palestinians are considered lower then camel dung by the Arab nations. This is why they are freely sacrificed in their war with Israel.
  
  This makes sense: France with a 7.5% of the population and Spain with 2.8% of the population being Muslim could be looking to push them out.
  
  Though, France and Spain should really study Israel’s Samson Option.
  
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Zipit
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:26am
I’m all for a Palestinian state! And the middle of Iran looks like a good place for it!

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BetterInformed
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:24am
Northern France is a Muslim State as is the Barcelona Area of Spain. Muslims in Spain want to turn the Catalonia into a giant mosque.

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- StandingOnMyHead
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 1:29pm
  That region also wants to secede from Spain. Now will the Spanish gov’t allow them their separate state without any opposition or will this be more foreign gov’t hypocrisy?
  
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Irememberamerica
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:09am
Britain’s position is unclear…
Someone go wake Maggie up.

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Irememberamerica
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:07am
France and Spain standing at the stupid switch.
Flick!

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Tickdog
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:56am
wow has the world gone totally mad? why would you back muslims?

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- DoseofReality
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:19am
  So no one in any situation should ever back a muslim against anyone else?
  
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- IAMMADDOG
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:26am
  @ Dose
  
  No. muslims deserve NO support because of their actions. They want to kill ANYONE who does not conform to their way. Until they change their attitude on that they deserve NO SUPPORT.
  
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- RubberBandEffect
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:15am
  Yes of course! All Muslims are the same and think the same things! So I guess when someone professes to be a Christian on TheBlaze and advocates murder/violence/nuclear war/etc I can safely assume that is what all Christians think. I mean its not like there are different sects of Christianity/Islam that believe different things. And surely there are no politically secular Muslims/Christians like the ones protesting Morsi’s power grab in Egypt. O wait…..
  
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- rose-ellen
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:40am
  Palestinians also comnprise christians[sirhan sirhan ].
  
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blanco5
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:55am
Why did we sacrifice American lives for these european idiots in WW II?

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- blanco5
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:01am
  Proof that you don’t help people who don’t help themselves.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:17am
  Good question. Here’s another. Why have we sacrificed so many fighting tyranny and oppression of communism just to turn around and spit on their graves by electing a communist tyrannical president? It all just sickens me.
  
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- Oldphoto678
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:20am
  The United States did not enter WWII with the intention of helping Europe. We entered WWII because had we not, the defeat of Europe would have led to a war on American soil that we would not have been able to win. So you see, you can pretend that we entered WWII to save Europe, but the reality is that we did it to save our own a$$.
  
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jackact
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:53am
Mmmm….wonder what size the Muslim population of Spain and France has escalated too?
Lax immigration law trumps again.

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bornagain
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:52am
I just don’t understand how American Jews don’t see what is happening, I am dumbfounded.
Wake Up Please! Everyone Wake Up!

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- Winedude
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:25am
  I was brought up in a Jewish household. I went to temple every Sabbath and even enjoyed the rigors of learning Hebrew for my Bar Mitzvah. As I grew older, and had serious issues with Rabbis, I moved away from Judaism. When I retired and had a lot more time for pleasure reading, I began to seriously look at my relationship to religion in general and Judaism in particular. As time passed, I questioned ever more about the existence of “God.” I am not at the point where I know that I cannot prove that God doesn’t exist. However, I’ve never seen a good argument beyond other people’s view of extreme coincidence, that God does exist. At this point I see religion as something that older civilizations started to explain phenomena that was beyond their comprehension AT THE TIME. Now I see religion as a big conspiracy to control your life by something that you have to imagine.
  “Science is the antidote to the poison of religion”…Adam Smith (and he was correct)
  
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- RubberBandEffect
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:24am
  Can we give WineDude a friggin medal?! Don’t worry my friend, relgion is a failing institution. As people become more informed and connected, they won’t be satisfied with hocus pocus fairy tales. That being said, human beings will always hold on to some irrational beliefs. Intelligence has its limits after all.
  
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bornagain
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:49am
Diverdan, No it’s not just you.

Oh! I used to watch Diverdan as a kid.

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Choctaw25
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:44am
It breaks down very simply, the Jews in America voted 100% for Barry, knowing that Barry hates the Jewish people/Israel and all they stand for. Israel is a pain to the Muslim world, Barry is an admitted Muslim (his own words, not mine), so now every Jew in this coutry and Irael is going to give that shocked face look when they are destroyed.
Give me a break. The Jewish community is getting exactly what it voted for, their own destruction.
I no longer feel sorry for the Jewish community, you reap what you sow, said my grandmother.

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diverdan
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:41am
Is it just me or does this seem to be a repeat of the events leading up to WWII?

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:37am
Would be nice to wake up one morning and read : Israel Solves Palestinian Problem Over Night.
Does not seem to surprising that Two Countries that collaborated with the Nazis would be against Israel.

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ares338
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:37am
France had so many Arabs living there now they are going to start importing camels. Won’t be the same though….electric camels can’t go nearly as far.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:34am
And so it begins again, the world is turning upon Israel and will use the Palestinian cause as a means to eliminate the nation of Israel once and for all, assuming Obama does not strike out first and hard at them.

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- DoseofReality
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:21am
  So you think obama might possibly strike israel? My god….what kind of bs have you been fed to actually beleive this…who do you talk to? what kind of brainswashing and hate brings this type of lunacy?
  
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- LFreeman
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:30am
  If Obama makes a “Stand” for Isreal in this and sides against these countries…we just may witness his first miracle. (*sarcasm*).
  
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- jungle J
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:48am
  snowleopard is a progressive operative stirring the pot…wake up to these people.
  
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- Pray_For_Us_All
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:33am
  DOSEOFREALITY & JUNGLE J,
  
  Do either of you recall when Obama said last year that Israel needs to go back to the pre 1967 borders. Take your blinders off. It is a shame and disgrace that athiests such as yourselves are becoming the majority in this nation, but then again it is in HIS devine plan.
  
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DougHuffman
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:32am
Hmm, “fighting everyone’s wars” about what? For what will Paul M. stand?

Good people ought to be armed as they will, with wits and Guns and the Truth. Hope4Change Damn progs Read The Clash of Civilizations – And the Remaking of World Order by S. P. Huntington

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:31am
So what !! This means nothing. What if France and Spain voted that America give up half of our 58 States ( 58 according to Jamie Foxx’s lord and Savior, Obozo ) to Canada or Mexico. Does that mean we would ? This is all meaningless hype.

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Ron Staiger
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:19am
Spain and France siding with the Palestinian terrorists? Not very surprising for countries that have displayed a unique penchant for cowardism in the past. Not very surprising for countries that sent millions of Jews to their deaths in their aggresive collaboration with the Nazis in WW2. Not very surprising for two rabidly Socialist European failures.
How’s that Arab-Friggin-Spring grabbin’ ya now, Baraaaack?

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ColoradoMaverick
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:10am
How bout we let Germany take over France again and this time, we won’t lift a finger to save those pu$$ies.

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- paulusmaximus
  Posted on November 28, 2012 at 7:20am
  I’m all for that, but lets quit fighting everyone’s wars ever where
  
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