Cairo – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says efforts to win U.N. recognition for a Palestinian state are “irreversible” and have wide international support, but they don’t mean the end of negotiations with Israel.
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Abbas was speaking Tuesday to newspaper editors in Cairo following a meeting with Arab foreign ministers, who discussed the Palestinian U.N. initiative. The Arab League offered support for Abbas but said he will determine if he will seek recognition from the General Assembly, or would take the issue to the Security Council. The U.S. and the Israel oppose the move.
Abbas said 126 countries back the initiative. He said it was not a symbolic move, but one that would strength his negotiating position with Israel.
Yet another pathetic failure of the administration of the liberal messiah.
what exactly is bad with this whole thing? it would happen sooner or later right? whats the worry?
So is a bullet (“reversible ” )
We don’t have to reverse it. We, the United States of America, will veto any such recognition. That’s it. We don’t need to do anything else. You can shout all you want, but with the stroke of a pen the United States renders you powerless. If you put half as much effort into building an economy that could sustain your people, perhaps you wouldn’t be beholden to terrorists today. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
No problem, we agree, you should have your palestinian state, just change the name “Jordan” to “Palestina”
I’m not really sure what the Palestinians are trying to do with this. Do they want the UN to declare a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza? The Palestinians can’t do that without first officially abandoning the Oslo Accords, which would not be good PR for them and would give Israel the green light to keep building in Yehudah V’Shomron. Do they want the UN to officially recognize that the Palestinians have a right to a state? Nobody will dispute that – in fact, that was one of the conditions of partition in 1947 – the area would be divided into two states. Only Arab stubborness for the past 64 years has kept the Palestinians from having their own state. Do they want the UN to recognize the PA as the de facto government of a future Palestinian state? I think that already exists.
In short, nobody disputes that the Palestinians should have a state. Why do they need the UN?