Observers can vote on procedural matters but not substantive matters, e. g. the Holy See or the State of Israel participating in the Security Council meeting regarding Israel-Palestine conflict.

国家观察员可以对程序性问题投票，但是不能对实体性问题进行投票。例如教廷梵蒂冈和参与安全理事会巴以问题讨论的以色列。

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and Barak,a former general and army chief of staff, says Israel is a state of law and lawbreakers will be punished.

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It was the first Arab state to make peace with Israel, and is also the seat of the Arab League.

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Washington,however, angered the Palestinians this month when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised what she said were Israel's concessions for peace.

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"The state of Israel does not exist because of the Holocaust, but with the survival of a strong Jewish state of Israel, such a holocaust will never happen again, " he added.

BBC: Obama tours symbolic sites in Israel and West Bank

Since the establishment of the State of Israel, many of Israel's elite have aspired to be embraced by Europe.

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They devised tactics for practicing the distinctive brand of bloc politics that passes for diplomacy in multilateral organizations, and they worked relentlessly in the U.N. committees, commissions and agencies to deprive the state of Israel of legitimacy and to legitimize their own struggle and claim to power.

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