Palestine is recognised as a "de jure Sovereign State" by about 135 members of the UN.
That's why they refer to "1967 borders", recognizing specific land as Palestinian territory currently occupied by Israel.
How can land be occupied if it doesn't belong to anybody?

There is a hypocritical and selective blindness when it comes to recognising human rights atrocities by countries such as North Korea, South America, Burma and Somalia, or Russia carrying out international political assassinations or the possibility of having a secret stockpile of nuclear weapons beyond the scope of international monitors - but Israel automatically gets a free pass for everything, can do no wrong and is the eternal victim.

Not all Jews are rabid Zionist apologists but it's obvious many rabid Zionists are not Jews.

The recent electoral ploy to move our embassy to Jerusalem was gratuitous lap-dog behaviour as craven as the deliberate lies told to get us involved in "the Coalition of the Willing" and resulted in the chaos that continues today.

It could have all been avoided! had a little bit of love and kindness been shown towards the Koreans after WWII.

"The USA sure had a lot of 'lackeys'!" Nah Issy about 2% of the worlds population. Didn't the Yanks pull that Korean caper while the Soviet Union was absent from the UN? The Chief US warmonger General Macarthur wanted to nuk North Korea killing millions of innocent men, women and children. Issy were you in agreement with Macarthur on that score?
Good to see the US were not alone, they had the likes of Luxembourg and Ethiopia to back them up. Your numbers show what mugs Australian's were.

BTW What did the Yanks, and Australia for that matter, do for Ethiopia (Abyssinia) when Mussolini marched in and butchered ten's of thousand's in the 1930's? Jack s, no phoney capitalistic proxy war to fight there, not like Korea and Vietnam.

Issy, I know you were sucker bait and pulled into that phoney war in Korea, and for that I am truly apologetic for what was done to you by the warmonger Menzies and co on your's and my countries behalf.

If the PLO or Hamas orginizations actually cared about their citizens and moved to spend the humanaterian aid that they recieve to move those people out of poverty and refugee status, then they might be worth looking at as real governing bodies and developing countries. Unfortunately their actions are far from that. The reality is that Palistine governments are really just terrorist orginizations. And now, for whatever reason, most of the world is ok to give them international status as a developing country.

It's a sad state of affairs that so many countries voted for Palistine to be recognized. Sad that only the US and Australia voted no.

NNS, you dutifully swallow the Zionist/US line when it comes to the Palestinian people. Masking the humanitarian wrongs committed against innocent Palestinians, by relating them to the actions of the PLO and Hamas. I have no time for terrorists or their organisations, but their wrong doings in no way negate the plight of the Palestinian people.
As a realists I recognise the right of the state of Israel to exist, there is no going back. How that state came about is a terrible blight on humanity, but its a reality, and the World has to accept it, including the Palestinians. The problem now is the right of the Palestinians to live a free and unmolested life in a homeland of their own, that is yet to be established.

Dispossession of your home is a terrible thing. If it happened to Australians today, in the way it has happened to the Palestinians, we might well be referring to the terrorists organisations, the ALO and Jumbuck, or some such names.

BTW, I totally agree with Steele's opening comment, Australia has totally sold out to the US, and is now seen by the rest of the world as some sycophantic lapdog which is not to be taken seriously. After WWII we moved closer and closer to the US, seem as a naive but dutiful alley with some small standing and credibility with the rest of the World, but now that's totally gone and our position is seen as the worst US suck up on the planet, even eclipsing the Poms in that regard.

Poor rache,

Making hate-filled speeches against the legitimate State of Israel, on behalf of mandated terrorist groups, assailing its borders.

The evidence points to misinformed, uneducated and might I say, misguided.

//If the PLO or Hamas orginizations actually cared about their citizens and moved to spend the humanaterian aid that they recieve to move those people out//

I think you may have missed the point, NNS. The Palestinians don't want to move out. It's a bit like Indian reservations: the inhabitants might enjoy higher socio-economic status off-reservation, but they still don't want to leave because they regard it as their home.

//The reality is that Palistine governments are really just terrorist orginizations.//

No, that's not true at all. Look, here's a list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups#Organizations_currently_officially_designated_as_terrorist_by_various_governments

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are designated as terrorist organisations by my government and yours. Palestine Liberation Front are considered a terrorist organisation by Canada and Israel, although not by either of our governments - but I trust Canada on this one. The Palestinian Relief Development Fund (AKA Interpal) are regarded as terrorists by Iran but nobody else; I am somewhat dubious about Iran's criteria for determining terrorist status.

Fatah are not. Neither are the PLO, and they haven't been since 1991. You're living in the past... a long time in the past. Things change, mate. Get over it. You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts.