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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has reacted coolly to a blueprint for talks put forward by international mediators. Mr Abbas said he was studying the so-called Middle East Quartet's idea for peace talks to open within a month, but ruled out any plan...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Finance minister tells Channel 2 he believes tax transfers to PA should be halted if Palestinians don't enter meaningful peace talks soon. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz on Saturday said that he believes that if the Palestinian Authority's statehood...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri praised Saturday President Mahmoud Abbas for what he described as his brave efforts at the U.N. to seek recognition for a Palestinian state while slamming Israel for trying to circumvent the rights of Palestinians.
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International Middle East Media Center
| over 1 year ago
Palestinian Cartoon Excerpts Abbas UN Speech, Israel's Response Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivered his historic speech at the United Nations on Friday, officially submitting the Palestinian bid for a Palestinian state with full membership...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
The Middle East Quartet is urging the Israelis and Palestinians to return to the negotiating table within the next month and to make substantial progress on final status issues so they can achieve a two-state solution by next year. The Quartet's push...
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NY1
| over 1 year ago
The President of the Palestinian National Authority asked the United Nations to recognize his entity as a state with full membership Friday, but United States officials said they would veto the effort if it came to a vote in the Security Council.
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
The campaign for Palestinian statehood is gaining pace ahead of the upcoming United Nations vote. The possible recognition is opposed by Israel, but it will have hidden benefits for it too, observers say. The Middle East Quartet has called on the...
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International Middle East Media Center
| over 1 year ago
Abbas submitted the bid to Ban Ki-Moon in his office the UN in an envelope with the Palestinian state slogan printed on...Palestinians will be continuing the nonviolent and popular resistance against the Israeli Occupation Abbas said during...
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Al Ahram
| over 1 year ago
This is the key question, in the run up to Friday, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah Despite tremendous pressure and last minute warnings from Washington, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is due to formally request of the UN full recognition of a...
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Al Ahram
| over 1 year ago
The Obama administration has vowed to veto the bid in the name of an imaginary "peace process", or bribe, bully and cajole enough council members to vote against or abstain and so make an American veto redundant. Every Western capital knows the price...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| over 1 year ago
It was an appeal to the darkest side and a return to the ethos of Yasser Aarafat. I saw no hope in the speech, only a grave threat, he told Ynet. (Aattila Somfalvi and Yitzhak Benhorin, New York)
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Foreign minister says Palestinian Authority has ignored Israeli initiatives and gestures; Livni calls on Netanyahu to renew peace talks. The foreign minister defended Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government, saying this administration has...
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B92
| over 1 year ago
Palestinians are due to launch their bid for statehood at the UN on Friday. Nicolas Sarkozy and Mahmud Abbas (Beta) Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas is expected to present a letter requesting UN membership during a speech at the UN General Assembly.
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Israel National News
| over 1 year ago
The former head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is in Washington for a two-day meeting of the International Monetary Fund. During the gathering, he is scheduled to meet with about a dozen counterparts from around the world, with...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| over 1 year ago
Israel aid will not suffer, in spite of budget cuts In a series of meeting with Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, senior White House and US Congress officials stressed that the US had no intention of making changes that would be harmful to the aid to...
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Mail and Guardian
| over 1 year ago
There appear to be three possible outcomes to the Palestinian plan on Friday to seek full UN membership: a miracle, a muddle, and a mess. The miracle would be if diplomats dream up a document that may persuade the Israelis and Palestinians to talk...
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j.
| over 1 year ago
Whatever happens or, at the last minute, doesn't happen at the United Nations, this works in their favor. An isolated, confused and blustering Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lost the initiative...The wind of the Arab revolutionary...
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Daily News & Analysis
| over 1 year ago
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday fully backed Home Minister P Chidambaram on the 2G spectrum issue and ruled out any infighting among the ministers. "I don't know what note you are talking about...I don't want to comment on a matter that is...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
President Barack Obama with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations in New York, September 21, 2011. A senior Palestinian official says President Mahmoud Abbas will formally ask the U.N. Security Council to recognize Palestine...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| over 1 year ago
September 22, 2011 Netanyahu, Lieberman praise Obama's U.N. speech, but Palestinians pan it JTA Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked President Obama for his speech at the United Nations General Assembly, but the Palestinians criticized...
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NY1
| over 1 year ago
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will address the United Nations General Assembly today, one day after the release of two American hikers being held in his country on espionage charges. Ahmadinejad's addresses to the UN have always been...
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The Globe & Mail
| over 1 year ago
A new speech by the President of the United States opened in New York Wednesday and, in Israel, the reviews are in: To most Israeli critics, it was a smash success! Nahum Barnea and Shimon Shiffer writing in the most popular daily, Yedioth Ahronoth,...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Palestinian UN bid 'will be vetoed' by Barack Obama 22 September 2011 Last updated at 02:26 ET Barack Obama has told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas he will veto his bid for UN membership, as he tried to persuade him to drop the plans. But...
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International Middle East Media Center
| over 1 year ago
United Nations headquarters in New York Palestinian Presidency spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rodeina, stated that the Palestinian side will be willing to return to the negotiating table after Israel stops all of its settlement activities, violations, and...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Barack Obama has told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas he will veto his bid for UN membership, as he tried to persuade him to drop the plans. But Mahmoud Abbas vowed to press ahead during a meeting with the US president, the White House said...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| over 1 year ago
President Barack Obama failed Wednesday to talk Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas out of seeking full U.N. membership, setting the stage for a U.S. veto that could help shore up Obama's sagging domestic political standing but risk injecting the first...
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KSAZ
| over 1 year ago
US President Barack Obama met with Mahmoud Abbas in New York on Wednesday evening, telling the Palestinian leader that the US will oppose any bid for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations, CBS News reported. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
You've made it clear that the Palestinians deserve a state, but it's a state that has to make peace with Israel. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday worked to shore up support for Israel's opposition to the Palestinian unilateral bid for...
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Haaretz
| over 1 year ago
President Barack Obama certainly never dreamt that one day he would be so warmly endorsed by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, of all people. But today, following Obama's speech at the UN General Assembly, Lieberman was literally gushing...
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The Globe and Mail
| over 1 year ago
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his support for Israel. The two leaders met at the United Nations on Wednesday as Mr. Harper wound up a two-day New York visit. During a brief photo op, the two...
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CNN Blog
| over 1 year ago
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is in the spotlight this week at the United Nations General Assembly where he plans to urge the U.N. to recognize an independent Palestinian state. Americans and Europeans have for weeks been trying to...
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NY Daily News
| over 1 year ago
The Israeli leader says President Obama deserves a "badge of honor" for standing up for the Jewish state in his speech Wednesday before the United Nations ...Echoing Obama's remarks to the General Assembly, Netanyahu said the Palestinians' threatened...
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Times of India
| over 1 year ago
President Barack Obama , trying to avert a showdown on Palestinian statehood , told the United Nations on Wednesday there was no substitute for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations or a short cut to peace. With US credibility and influence in the Middle...
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The Daily Herald
| over 1 year ago
The festive crowds waved Palestinian flags and chanted independence slogans as speakers pledged backing for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas two days before he speaks at the UN General Assembly and is expected to ask for membership. A...
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SF Gate
| over 1 year ago
Majdi Mohammed / AP Palestinians march during a rally supporting the Palestinian statehood bid in the United Nations, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pressed ahead with his campaign for...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Security Council membership vote would be delayed while new Palestinian-Israeli peace talks begin, officials briefed on a proposal said. The proposal, pushed by the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia -- the so-called Quartet of...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Celebratory rallies taking place in Ramallah, other Palestinian cities across the West Bank; learning institutions, gov't offices closed to encourage participation. Demonstrations supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state were taking place...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
West Bank Several thousand Palestinians streamed into the center of this West Bank city on Wednesday in a show of support for their president's bid to win U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state. The rally, in a small square in downtown Ramallah, was...
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Haaretz
| over 1 year ago
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that his country's position on the bid depends on the wording of the United Nations resolution on Palestinian statehood. He noted Poland's decades-long good relations with the Arab nations, and...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Abbas's statehood declaration is "a hostile move"; PA official says loss of US aid could lead to collapse of Authority. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz on Tuesday threatened severe financial ramifications if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...
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ITN
| over 1 year ago
The US feels it has a duty to protect Israel, but at the same time, following the Arab Spring, there is a particular need to reach out to emerging Muslim governments who overwhelmingly support Palestinian statehood. In order to avoid a showdown in...
