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    China says it supports Palestinians' statehood bid

    BEIJING (AP) — China says it supports a Palestinian plan to seek full membership in the United Nations next month.

    Negotiations with Israel on the terms of Palestinian statehood have been frozen since 2008. As an alternative, the Palestinians have decided to seek U.N. recognition of an independent "Palestine" in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.

    China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday that Wu Sike, its special envoy on the Middle East, told Palestinian leaders in a meeting in Ramallah that Beijing and the Chinese people have always supported the Palestinian cause.

    On the Palestinians' bid for statehood, the statement said Wu expressed understanding, respect and support.

     

    223 comments

    • Marentesa Walker  •  9 mths ago
      Palestine wasn't a part of israel ever....when Hitler screwed jews during WWII than they ran for cover and poor palestinians given refuge to jews and everyone know that jews can't be trusted for the matter of fact (jews as a proven fact...they had a long history of deceiving,cheating and back stabbing....as they didn't even spared their own Prophet Moses (PBUH))...that was the biggest mistake which palestinians did and till today they are paying the price. The state of israel came in to existance on 14th May 1948. Following the 1947 United Nations decision to partition Palestine, on 14 May 1948 David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared Israel a state independent from the British Mandate for Palestine. So israel was the part of palestine and not the other way round. Jews deceived and stole some part of it, which is came to be know as present day israel.
      What china is doing in taiwan and tibet is totaly wrong but for this case they stand up rightly against thiefs and dacoits and i support their decision.
    • Cubs  •  9 mths ago
      Well China, we have that in common. Now, how about Tibet?
    • Mohammad Ishaq  •  9 mths ago
      India which was one time champion of the Palestinian cause should have taken the lead in favouring statehood for Palestine. Anyway, it is a positive step..
      • yahoo 9 mths ago
        India just worships the yanks and Israelis nowadays.
      • Jills 9 mths ago
        I fully agree... we should've shown more balls.... we should show more balls when it comes to attrocities committed against Palestinians... at the same time we shouldnt encourage Palestinians also to kill Israelis...
    • H  •  9 mths ago
      Free Tibet !
      The world supports independent and free Tibet, will they respect the world and Tibetan people
      • Jay 9 mths ago
        I support the idea of giving our land back to the native Indians....need I say more?
      • True American 9 mths ago
        Free Tibet, Let Tibet get a seat in the UN.,before you talk of Palestine.
      • MADCHINK 9 mths ago
        Free Hawaii and return control back to the descendants of the royal family.
    • Bee  •  9 mths ago
      I have full hopes for China.
      The weight of its own new-found capitalism which can put the American capitalism to shame, looking at the number of billionaires that are mushrooming in China, will crush the communism and its grip on the Chinese people and on other nationalities currently under Chinese control.
      Too much money in too few hands, inevitable spread of information technology, growth of the middle class, Hong Kong experiment, having to be strange bedfellows with the Americans... Oh! there are too many factors that makes democratization of the communist country imminent in as little as 15 years.

      Hope America remains capitalist even then, despite the big and constant let down of the nation by the American businesses who have constantly shipped jobs and business operations outside the country for higher profits alone, but continuing to claim to be job creators and holy cows deserving more and more tax breaks and cash incentives.

      Both sides of the political divide looks sick. Core of both ideas being perpetuation of self interests rather than any ideology itself. So funny!
    • Happy  •  9 mths ago
      Yes, the world supports a free Tibet and a free China - how's that Chinese Communists??
    • DRSHA  •  9 mths ago
      China may steel the deal in the world if it can pull this and become the next superpower unless US wants to wake-up to the reality. If US is smart it should expedite the Palestinian statehood to halt the enormous power of dragon! Unfortunately the mice is caught between the dragon and the beast
      • Allah 9 mths ago
        The Fact is that Palestinian don't like Americans.
      • World Freedom 8 mths ago
        The fact is that the US are a akis of evil supporting a terrorist state that funds settler terriorists in Palestine ??
    • Yuri Chenzenko  •  9 mths ago
      china can choose either jews or oil, it seem china prefer oil ....with population of 1,5 and a lot of mouth to feed china can not afford playing politic like u.s
    • DNuke3DEE  •  9 mths ago
      The only reason China is saying this is because it doesnt want the crazy Uighurs from going more crazy and recruiting the Taliban to come into China. What other reason would it have, to care about the Middle East???
      • 3 legged cat 9 mths ago
        you sound very dumb~!
      • imam 9 mths ago
        IF WEST CAN INTERFERE IN MIDDLE EAST THEN Y CANT EAST
    • DNuke3DEE  •  9 mths ago
      China you sure this was a good move? You shouldnt mess with the Jews. Theyre not your enemy... why make one???
      • 3 legged cat 9 mths ago
        oohhh, pls ,mind your own business, go home phuck your mom pls~!
      • 3 legged cat 9 mths ago
        you are really stupid. who cares Israel, they are aiming to play with the Israels sponsors~!~!
    • Agent 86  •  9 mths ago
      Funny how china has no problem getting involved in internal policies of other nations but screams like a 4 year old when anyone questions its internal policies. Never surprising.CCP double talk, 24/7.
    • louis tan  •  9 mths ago
      Jewish America will never allow any Palestinian plan for US-controlled UN membership. Even if they do it will make no difference to them. Look at what they did to Libya and, they can do the same to any other country, provided of course if that country is weak and destroying it serves their selfish interests.
    • Carl Shieffer  •  9 mths ago
      To NK and Aph, Tibet is never an independent piece of land. It was part of Ching dynasty. At the collapse of Ching dynasty, Tibet became part of Republic of China - which is on the island of Taiwan today. After Mao beat ROC, Tibet became part of People's Republic of China. I urge ignorant Westerners to learn history and respect scientific facts.
    • Aspirant Yfq  •  9 mths ago
      No matter what the world people say ,Taiwan always is a party of China .like Tibet.
      everyone could suck chinese government ,but the territory of China you could not kidnap from chinese people . the traitor go to dell,everyone who seek indepent from china ,完蛋去吧!
    • Aphrodisiac  •  9 mths ago
      In response, Israel declares it supports statehood for Tibet and Taiwan!
    • Mohammed Ghouse  •  9 mths ago
      Good change in the foreign policy of china.Now the world is recognizing the status of Palestine.If Israel resists,it will destroy.The UN security council should impose embargo on Israel in violation of human rights in Palestine.
    • Sony  •  9 mths ago
      China should let Tibet and Taiwan to be free countries before China has any right to talk about others freedom! China has illegally occupying big chunk of Indian land.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      Should have add HA, Guam, Puerto Rico and part of Cuba to the U.S. should free list!
      The only legitimate purchase is Alaska.
      All those self righteous people should vacate lower 48 states and moved to Alaska.
      Put your money where your mouth is!!!
    • Truth Hurts  •  9 mths ago
      wasn't Palestine part of Israel before the Arabs invaded Israel and took it over?
      Those muslims, all they know is kill, invade, rape, and murder. We need to put them down before they are born
    • Timur  •  9 mths ago
      Without the Israeli Arab conflict, the middle east will be another superpower. Guess who is undermining that?
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