Middle East

US stops UN from recognizing a Palestinian state through membership

UNITED NATIONS, April 18 (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday effectively stopped the United Nations from recognizing a Palestinian state by casting a veto in the Security Council to deny Palestinians full membership of the world body.

It vetoed a draft resolution that recommended to the 193-member U.N. General Assembly that "the State of Palestine be admitted to membership" of the U.N. Britain and Switzerland abstained, while the remaining 12 council members voted yes.

"The United States continues to strongly support a two-state solution. This vote does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood, but instead is an acknowledgment that it will only come from direct negotiations between the parties," Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood told the council.

# Can the harvest be separated from its toil?

When i was a teenager, by #God's grace alone, despite the deep inner pain i knew that i was circling, homing in on something in tighter concentric circles. Back then i just didn't want to feel anything because all i felt was emotional pain.

I knew i could not find happiness in things or people and it took a while to realise i couldn't find it in higher ideals like karma or religion.

It's been a long journey and it just looks longer now than i thought it would be. I'm guessing that those concentric circles just keep getting tighter and never end except in the grave?

Right now happiness is a choice, nothing more or to be found. A choice every waking minute of the day. Each minute like a brick added to a wall, life the overall impression.

# Am i missing something?

i've *never* had such a response on social media ever to something i wrote until this; and the most response i've got before this is when i told peeps to change their Android and Apple advertising ID in their settings.

**Only** because of God first then, not following certain halo-ed devs that were blocking me (which is fair enough, i'm not most #plebs' cup of tea) but also it seems i was being blocked from others, likely those following them, effectively being censored, am i visible on #nostr again.

It's only in another post when i mentioned **"little shit devs that make tyranny possible"** did things start to change, which has raised my suspicions especially that the #police and #MI5 have been very proactive in approaching mainstream platforms to keep me effectively muted.

i am here on #nostr because a long time ago i was in a difficult situation and when it came to an end i was asked two questions:

(a) What happened?

(b) Did you complain?

And i can't document that on a platform that deletes or shadowbans my posts at the request of a dodgy government agency.

#FreeJulianAssange