Palestinians celebrate in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on November 29, 2012 after the General Assembly voted to recognize Palestine as a non-member state.
Hours before the historic vote at the General Assembly on the upgrade status on Thurday, four senators presented legislation, threatening to stop the million-dollar assistance.
The 193-member General Assembly voted 138-9 with 41 abstentions at the United Nations for a resolution approving the upgrade. Nine countries, including Canada, Israel, and the United States, voted against it.
Having earned the observer non-member status, Palestinians will enjoy access to UN agencies and the International Criminal Court (ICC) where they could file complaints against Israel.
"The biggest fear I have is that the Palestinians achieve this status it won't be very long before the Palestinians use the United Nations as a club against Israel," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
The legislation to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority would reportedly come into effect once Palestinians file war crime charges against Israel at the ICC. The Senate could wrap up the legislation by the week's end.
Proponents of the measure, including Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said they expect it to win overwhelming approval.
I can't believe what the reality impoverished psycho dingbats in DC come up with. Is it no wonder this country is headed straight to something like the place Dante wrote about. I mean, we have these two Senators that want to further the impoverishment of the Palestinians. We have another idiotized congressman that sponsors legislation for indefinite detention of his fellow countrymen. We have an injustice system that (along with a puppet leader who made all kinds of promises of transparency, justice for all, expose of the lies of 9/11, etc., and who sucked us all into believing that he would get the country back on the right track) will not prosecute the real criminals who committed horrendous war crimes against humanity, i.e., Bush and his cronies, but will prosecute to the nth degree someone who exposed the nefarious deeds of this country................Everything is upside down; like Alice through the looking glass. To be blunt and to the point, Huxley was spot on. We're headed there like a house on fire and not a drop of water to salvage anything.