Lying again, the vote requires two-thirds approval, abstentions don't count towards the two-thirds needed so an abstention is a politically correct 'NO'.
Vanuatu has a population of 221,000 and is almost entirely dependent upon Australia. So neoZionist ********s can depend upon the support of a quarter-million impoverished cobbers. Until they find out where Israel is and what it has done.
Way we look at folk who don't vote in the UK is that they don't much care either way! So EU wide that would mean that 11 aren't bothered, 11 voted for and just 5 voted against. Be interesting to see how unanimity in the EU pans out! You have that quite wrong,as usual, Mr R............there are only 14 who want Israel to continue stealing Palestinian land, blockading Gaza, controlling all aspects of day to day Palestinian life and being the ********s of the world..in fact, just 13, because you'd hardly expect Israel to anything but vote for themselves. The only country working extremely hard at getting Israel annihilated is Israel, as far as I can see!
Predictably just a handful of western civilized democracies, most voted 'NO' or abstained. Frankly most people could not care less how Burkina Faso, Lesotho, Nicaragua or Zimbabwe vote.
Samoans of course, all 182,000 of them, have a great deal in common with your average Zionist; It just ain't very evident yet.
Summarizing then, discounting the US of AIPAC , its stooges, Australia and Canada and the guilt-ridden Germans more people attend football matches on a wet weekend than support neoZionism
LOL, after you "discount" states representing half a billion westerners that voted 'No' and states representing another quarter billion westerners that abstained (equal to 'No' vote), there really is no one left to support Israel...besides virtually the entire western civilization which you so conveniently discounted.
Abstentions were a vote for Palestine. They weren't discounted, they were very useful, thank you. They left the neoZionist squatter camp with just 14 votes- one of them Israel; another the US of AIPAC.
They were ignored and not counted towards the 2/3 quota needed for the resolution to pass and as such were not any different from 'NO' votes. Keep spinning though.
The required quota was reached indeed, this is not in dispute, the 'NO' votes and abstentions were not counted towards the required number, only 'Yes' votes (cast mostly by 3rd/Arab world countries) were.
One of the many excuses I hear about people being against a state of Palestine, is that it would "give" Hamas a strategic advantage to attack Israel, and that Israel can be crossed by an aeroplane in under a few minutes and blah blah bloody blah.. What does it matter, whether Hamas fire rockets from a field, or an orchard or a cliff? How does that give Hamas militants a significant strategic advantage over the Israeli armed forces? How does it give Hamas a strategic advantage against aeroplanes and helicopter gunships and some of the most advanced military technology? Sure one bullet can kill, but we know, Hamas know, and Palestinians know that Israeli payback for any attack on Israel would be magnified significantly, it doesn't matter where Hamas attack from, with what they're equipped with it wouldn't make a difference. Seriously, even if they hid in caverns, Israel have bunker busters now, so what's Israeli government and their supporters really afraid of??? Well NOW, I believe there could be a reason why Israeli government have a legitimate fear to relinquish land it's been stealing and occupying, and that's the possibility that through Al-Qaeda, Hamas could be armed with portable anti-aircraft missiles, and the Israeli people and government can thank NATO for delivering the weapons to terrorists. Of course there has to be some hidden agenda at hand, I'm sure NATO knew exactly what it was doing, while forcing regime change in Libya, but that speculation aside, if any Israeli airliners or helicopters get shot down by anti-aircraft missiles, thank the U.S and NATO, before blaming purely Hamas.
Truthfully....I think Israel is afraid of peace before they have grabbed as much of everywhere within the Palestinian allocated area as they can, on the assumption that what they grab now, the USA will let them keep forever. Nothing to do with security for their citizens, now or in the future...it's all about Greater Israel.