The Palestine Football Association was founded in 1928 and became a member of FIFA in that year, and competed in tournaments during the next decades. When Israel was founded in 1948 the Association was replaced byDr. Gumer Isayev, Director of the Center for Modern ME Studies in St Petersburg, Russia, shares his take on the meaning of Palestine's UN upgrade to a "non-member observer state" and America's Middle Eastern failures. First of all, of course for theThe United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted recognize the sovereign state of Palestine, upgrading its observer status from "entity" to "non-member state." The move is viewed as a victory for Palestinians,However, even prior to last week, Palestine fell within the Vienna formula and would have been regarded as entitled to ratify the Rome Statute. The Vienna formula indicates that an entity is to be regarded as a State entitled toPalestine's new non-member state status within the United Nations is far more than symbolic. As a recognized state, Palestine can sign treaties enabling it to protect its airspace, natural gas fields off the Gaza coast and electromagnetic airwaves. If
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