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The Guardian
| almost 2 years ago
A Palestinian state is a moral right The case for a Palestinian state is unanswerable and must be supported in the west Editorial For the Zionist movement seeking an independent state of Israel , desire became reality in November 1947, when the...
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Zaman.com
| almost 2 years ago
Palestine's United Nations seat to push Israel into a corner Mahmoud Abbas Although having declared that it is time to raise the Palestinian flag at the United Nations, the Turkish capital has shown its awareness that a UN admission of Palestine as a...
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San Jose Mercury News
| almost 2 years ago
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, announced Friday that he would seek membership for a state of Palestine from the U.N. Security Council next week, putting him on a collision course with Israel and the United States as both face an Arab world...
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The Independent
| almost 2 years ago
The proposal Mr Blair put to Mr Abbas on Wednesday was for a one-year timetable for concluding a peace agreement on a Palestinian state. The outcome would be based, firstly, on pre-June 1967 borders with land swaps in return for those Jewish...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| almost 2 years ago
Palestinian leaders will take their campaign for full statehood to the United Nations next week, despite staunch opposition from both Israel and the United States. Mr Abbas says he wants recognition of a state within the 1967 borders which would...
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HNN
| almost 2 years ago
Reza Aslan is the founder of AslanMedia.com and the author of "No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam." Later this month, the Palestinian Authority intends to go before the United Nations to request recognition of an independent...
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Arab News
| almost 2 years ago
Republican US presidential frontrunner Rick Perry on Friday accused President Barack Obama of distancing himself from Israel and blamed US foreign policy errors for a Palestinian push for statehood at the United Nations. Seeking to capitalize on this...
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NOW Lebanon
| almost 2 years ago
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed Friday to lodge a bid for UN membership before the Security Council in one week, despite mounting Israeli and US opposition. "We are going to the Security Council," he said in a televised address to the...
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Arizona Daily Sun
| almost 2 years ago
Friday, September 16, 2011 8:27 am (0) Comments Font Size: Facing a diplomatic clash over the prospect of Palestinian statehood, President Barack Obama will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week to discuss ways to get Middle...
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The Daily Star
| almost 2 years ago
Cups designed as part of the campaign promoting the Palestinians' bid for statehood are displayed in a souvenirs shop in Gaza City, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. West Bank: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday he would demand full membership...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| almost 2 years ago
Story continues below At a meeting in El Salvador in August of representatives of about 30 Caribbean and Central American governments, the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad al-Malki, spoke on the issue of Palestinian statehood. Although, as the...
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Salem News
| almost 2 years ago
Thursday September 15, 2011 Search About Salem-News.com is the premiere Independent Online Newsgroup in the United States...The occasion is the threat of a vote at the United Nations next week on Palestinian statehood or at least official observer...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| almost 2 years ago
In a move that has infuriated Washington and Israel, Palestinian leaders have said they will lodge an application for full membership of the UN or go to the General Assembly for enhanced observer membership this month. But Washington has threatened...
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Fox News
| almost 2 years ago
West Bank The top Palestinian diplomat says the Palestinians will submit a bid for full membership at the U.N...Riad al-Malki's told reporters on Thursday in the West Bank capital of Ramallah that the bid would be submitted next Friday. His remarks...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| almost 2 years ago
Thursday, September 15, 2011 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette At least the front end of this year's United Nations General Assembly session will be dominated by the issue of the recognition of Palestine as a state. The contest will pit Palestine, currently...
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Russia Today
| almost 2 years ago
Palestinians handed over a letter to the local UN mission in Ramallah, saying they start peaceful demonstrations, which are to continue until the autonomy becomes a member state in the UN's vote on September 20...In late September the UN members will...
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Arab News
| almost 2 years ago
State of Palestine's imminent application for UN membership are being raised and vigorously debated, one relevant question has not been. That question is how American national interests would be harmed if Palestine were to be admitted as the 194th...
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Euractiv
| almost 2 years ago
But there can be no peace in the region without a viable Palestinian state, argues Eberhard Rhein . This commentary was authored by Eberhard Rhein , a former senior European Commission official for external relations and a lecturer on economic policy...
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The Guardian
| almost 2 years ago
Stefan Wermuth/Reuters The former foreign secretary Jack Straw has thrown his weight behind efforts to persuade the British government to support the Palestinian bid to be admitted to the United Nations as a member state. Straw, who was foreign...
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The Guardian
| almost 2 years ago
David Levene Mohammed Hassan al-Atrash, a man whose life story is a microcosm of all that has befallen the Palestinian people over the past 63 years, smiles ruefully at the prospect of a Palestinian state winning the support of most countries in the...
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Mail and Guardian
| almost 2 years ago
The United States has decided to fight to the bitter end to convince the Palestinians to abandon their bid for United Nations (UN) membership, despite the rather small chance that the battle will succeed. "We want to leave no stone unturned in our...
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Jerusalem Post
| almost 2 years ago
Many in Gaza, including Hamas, see bid for UN recognition as an exercise in futility and ask why Palestinian unity was not secured first. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's bid to seek UN recognition of a Palestinian state is not...
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Taiwan News
| almost 2 years ago
U.S. and international envoys are holding a slew of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in a last-ditch effort to contain a fallout from the Palestinians' plan to seek U.N. endorsement of a state. U.S. diplomats Dennis Ross and David Hale...
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The Guardian
| almost 2 years ago
Getty Images Efforts to persuade the Palestinians to change tack ahead of next week's UN meeting on the creation of a state of Palestine accelerated this week with a series of high-level delegations sweeping through Jerusalem and Ramallah aiming to...
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Embassy
| almost 2 years ago
P alestinian officials are confident they have enough support from UN member states to achieve at least symbolic recognition of their statehood, a vote on which may go before the international body this month. Canada, however, is not among the...
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National Public Radio
| almost 2 years ago
September 14, 2011 As the Palestinians plan to make a bid for statehood at the United Nations next week, many Palestinians see it as a way to break years of deadlock with Israel. The Israelis, meanwhile, see only diplomatic fallout and the potential...
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Truthdig
| almost 2 years ago
Sep 13, 2011 Most Americans would likely agree that the main shock delivered to Americans and the American government by the 9/11 attacks was that of vulnerability...It is the national vulnerability that will be revealed this month by the American...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| almost 2 years ago
Palestinian leaders will ask the United Nations Security Council for full U.N. membership, Palestinian officials said Tuesday, despite a U.S. vow to veto the request and fears that it could be a fatal blow to the moribund peace process. Palestinian...
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The Daily Star
| almost 2 years ago
A successful bid for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations would cancel the Palestinians' right of return, according to the conclusions of a workshop that ended Tuesday, the National News Agency said. The workshop, entitled Palestinian Refugees...
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Arab News
| almost 2 years ago
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan blasted Israel and said recognition of a Palestinian state is an obligation, as he kicked off in Egypt a tour to bolster Ankara's ties with new Arab regimes. A Palestinian child crying in Gaza wrenches a...
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The Guardian
| almost 2 years ago
Britain should say yes to Palestinian statehood and so should Israel A no vote at the UN will boost Netanyahu, wound Fatah and discredit the Europeans as useless hypocrites Illustration by Belle Mellor Britain doesn't usually count for much in the...
