So if the vote did not create a legal state of Palestine, what did it accomplish?
It presents itself as the unofficial US embassy to the non-existent state of Palestine.
Mr Malki made his address while seated behind a name plate that read 'State of Palestine'.
Finally, there is the matter of the "vision" President Bush has embraced of a state of Palestine.
The latest proposal would have UN recognition for a state of Palestine made up of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
"The General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the State of Palestine, " he said.
Last week, Mr Abbas ordered the foreign ministry and embassies to start using "State of Palestine" in official correspondence, Agence France-Presse reported.
We will stand by you until the independent state of Palestine on the land occupied since 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital.
General Assembly overwhelmingly recognized a state of Palestine in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, despite objections by the U.S. and Israel.
Yet one of the direct consequences of the establishment of a Jew-free, pro-jihadist State of Palestine will be the further radicalization of Israeli Arabs.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told West Bank officials to prepare to put the words "State of Palestine" on public documents, official media say.
Together, without Netanyahu, all will discuss how to enact cosmetic reforms that will enable the assembled parties to demand the swift establishment of the State of Palestine.
Today, Israel is enabling the Palestinians to set the political and legal conditions for the establishment of an internationally recognized state of Palestine that will be at war with Israel.
According to the survey, those two-thirds of Palestinians believe that talks should not lead to the establishment of the State of Palestine next to Israel and at peace with the Jewish state.
Netanyahu says talks should resume without any preconditions, and he has even allowed stepped-up construction in the territories since the United Nations moved to recognize a de facto state of Palestine in November.
Abbas says he won't return to negotiations without an Israeli construction freeze, arguing that Israel's building on war-won land pre-empts the outcome of talks on a border between Israel and a future state of Palestine.
He warns Israel that it must immediately take steps to dismantle its unwanted presence inside the internationally recognized State of Palestine, lest it face the sort of U.S.-enabled "coalition" military measures now underway in Libya.
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Jews, to the extent they choose to stay and live in the state of Palestine, will enjoy those rights and certainly will not enjoy any less rights than Israeli Arabs enjoy now in the state of Israel.
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As two decades of peace talks have failed to secure a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian officials insist the time is right to ask the UN to grant full membership to an independent state of Palestine.
He knows that raising the right of return at this moment plays into the hands of Israel's right wing: they will be able to say: 'We always told you so: the two-state solution is just a Palestinian plot to incorporate the Jewish state into the Greater State of Palestine.
It has stressed that the aim of the soon-to-start direct negotiation is to reach a peaceful settlement that would end the Israeli occupation which began in 1967, allowing for the independent and sovereign state of Palestine to emerge and live side by side in peace and security with the state of Israel.
Its new policy is founded on the belief that Israel and the Palestinian Authority must sign an agreement spelling out the borders and sovereign rights of the sought-for State of Palestine even before the Palestinian Authority fights let alone defeats the terror forces operating within its territory in Judea, Samaria and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
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What America and the international community can do is to state frankly what everyone knows -- a lasting peace will involve two states for two peoples: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people, and the state of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people, each state enjoying self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.
Peace that means the establishment of a Palestinian state, or the state of -- the democratic state of independent Palestine along the State of Israel, as mentioned in the road map plan.
Instead of supporting Israel, Tibi asked the US to lend its support to support the partition of the land west of the Jordan River between a Jew-free Arab state of "Palestine, " and a non-Jewish state in the rest of the area.
And newspapers that serve the Jewish population in any future state of "Palestine" should be permitted to flourish there.
Indeed, in many ways the resolution backs a two-state vision of a Palestine established alongside Israel - supposedly the goal of successive Israeli governments.
They proved, he told his parliament on May 16th, that the Palestinians were out to extirpate the Jewish state from any part of Palestine.
Americans need to sit back and take a hard look at whats been happening since the 50's when the US agreed to help build an Israeli state in the middle of Palestine.
And he's letting millions of our tax dollars be used to create a new state-sponsor of terror called 'Palestine.
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