Palestinian crowds watch UN statehood vote
November 30, 2012  03:17
Mercury News reports: Jubilant Palestinians crowded around outdoor screens and television sets at home Thursday to watch the United Nations vote on granting them, at least formally, what they have long yearned for a state of their own.

A general assembly vote to accept 'Palestine' as an observer state won't immediately change lives here, since much of what the world body is defining as the territory of that state'"the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem remains under Israeli control.

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