The PA is not backing down from demanding statehood at the end of the month. They insist their legitimacy be recognized by the UN, and given the status deserving of a state. One big problem with that is they don't fit the international requirements for a state.
Regardless, they are pushing ahead and gathering support from the international community. The US will veot it when it comes up, hopefully there will be some kind of awakening to this potential tragedy and there will be no new state of Palestine. If not, the dynamics in that part of the world will change drastically, and not for the better.
From AFP/Yahoo Spetember 4
'We won't give up UN bid': Palestinians
The Palestinians will not be deterred from seeking United Nations membership, a senior official said here Sunday, after reports Washington was trying to head off their bid.
"The Palestinians are going to the UN Security Council to ask for recognition for the state of Palestine on the 1967 borders... and there is no turning back or other choice than than this one," said leading Palestinian official Nabil Shaath.
"There is no alternative to this decision and no going back on it and if the United States vetoes it, we will continue to knock on the door of the UN Security Council seeking full Palestinian UN membership," he told AFP.
The comments from Shaath, a member of the Fatah party led by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, came after The New York Times reported that Washington was trying to put together a new peace talks proposal that would convince the Palestinians to hold off seeking membership at the United Nations.
Washington has said it will veto any Palestinian bid, but has made it clear it would prefer that the issue does not reach a vote at the Security Council.
The Times, citing US officials and foreign diplomats, said Washington was labouring to find language that would be sufficient to lure the Palestinians away from their bid, bring Israel to the negotiating table and be acceptable to the other members of the peacemaking Quartet -- the EU, UN and Russia.
Europe has struggled to define a unified position on the Palestinian bid, and Shaath said Sunday that EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton would visit Ramallah this week for talks with Abbas on the issue.
Quartet envoy Tony Blair and US special Middle East envoy David Hale were also expected to hold talks in Ramallah this week, Shaath said.
The Palestinians have insisted that they will not scrap their bid for UN membership, even if a new peace proposal is floated...
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Regardless, they are pushing ahead and gathering support from the international community. The US will veot it when it comes up, hopefully there will be some kind of awakening to this potential tragedy and there will be no new state of Palestine. If not, the dynamics in that part of the world will change drastically, and not for the better.
From AFP/Yahoo Spetember 4
'We won't give up UN bid': Palestinians
The Palestinians will not be deterred from seeking United Nations membership, a senior official said here Sunday, after reports Washington was trying to head off their bid.
"The Palestinians are going to the UN Security Council to ask for recognition for the state of Palestine on the 1967 borders... and there is no turning back or other choice than than this one," said leading Palestinian official Nabil Shaath.
"There is no alternative to this decision and no going back on it and if the United States vetoes it, we will continue to knock on the door of the UN Security Council seeking full Palestinian UN membership," he told AFP.
The comments from Shaath, a member of the Fatah party led by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, came after The New York Times reported that Washington was trying to put together a new peace talks proposal that would convince the Palestinians to hold off seeking membership at the United Nations.
Washington has said it will veto any Palestinian bid, but has made it clear it would prefer that the issue does not reach a vote at the Security Council.
The Times, citing US officials and foreign diplomats, said Washington was labouring to find language that would be sufficient to lure the Palestinians away from their bid, bring Israel to the negotiating table and be acceptable to the other members of the peacemaking Quartet -- the EU, UN and Russia.
Europe has struggled to define a unified position on the Palestinian bid, and Shaath said Sunday that EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton would visit Ramallah this week for talks with Abbas on the issue.
Quartet envoy Tony Blair and US special Middle East envoy David Hale were also expected to hold talks in Ramallah this week, Shaath said.
The Palestinians have insisted that they will not scrap their bid for UN membership, even if a new peace proposal is floated...
Read it all
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