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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
Screenshot Al Jazeera November 29, 2012, marked the day that should have been the 65th birthday of Palestine. But because of the Arab world's rejection of the UN partition resolution in 1947, no one was blowing out the birthday candles last Thursday.
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CNSNews.com
| 7 months ago
Ambassador Susan Rice said that a vote elevating the status of the Palestinians at the United Nations did not establish that Palestine is its own separate country, a serious issue of contention between Israel and the Palestinians. This resolution...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Story The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has returned home to a hero's welcome after winning a resounding endorsement for Palestinian independence at the United Nations. A Palestinian man shouts during a rally celebrating the UN vote on the...
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The Age
| 7 months ago
Israel is facing condemnation over its plans to expand settlements in occupied territory in the West Bank, with Britain and France reported to be considering recalling their ambassadors over the decision. Britain and France summoned the Israeli...
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Canadian Free Press
| 7 months ago
Substantive claims can be made to contest the legal basis of the Palestinian claim to statehood. Before an entity may be called a state it must meet certain conditions, including the establishment of effective governance over a certain territory and...
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Canadian Free Press
| 7 months ago
On November 29, 2012, the 65th anniversary of the General Assembly's 1947 resolution recommending partition of what remained of the British Palestinian Mandate after the Palestinian majority state of Jordan had already been carved out, Abbas called...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu In retaliation to a U.N. vote which accorded Palestine a non-member observer state status, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday decided to move ahead with plans to build some 3,000 new housing...
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Inter Press Service
| 7 months ago
But it failed to take into account the Israeli Prime Minister's opposition to a state of Palestine that isn't on his terms. British Mandate of Palestine into two states one Jewish; one Arab. Jewish leader David Ben-Gurion accepted the Partition Plan...
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DAWN
| 7 months ago
Ban AFP 1 min ago Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his offices in Jerusalem on Dec 2, 2012. Israel is halting the transfer of tax and tariff money it collects for the Palestinians in response to their...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has returned home to a hero's welcome after winning a resounding endorsement for Palestinian independence at the United Nations. A Palestinian man shouts during a rally celebrating the UN vote on the...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Flags and balloons, a marching band, and a huge poster on the outside wall of the compound proclaiming You are now in the State of Palestine added a festive touch as Mr. Abbas returned home triumphant days after the United Nations General Assembly...
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Arab News
| 7 months ago
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas returned to the West Bank yesterday after winning upgraded UN status for the Palestinians, telling cheering crowds: Yes, now we have a state. Palestine has accomplished a historic achievement at the UN, Abbas added,...
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The Herald
| 7 months ago
Israel and an overwhelming condemnation of Israeli settlements in the areas claimed by the Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects a return to Israel's 1967 lines. Israel remains in control in parts of the West Bank and...
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Qatar English Daily
| 7 months ago
A huge Palestinian flag made out of balloons is seen as people celebrate the successful bid by President Mahmoud Abbas to win UN statehood recognition in Ramallah. Abbas returned from New York to the West Bank yesterday, telling cheering crowds: Yes,...
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Sky News
| 7 months ago
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has returned to the West Bank after winning upgraded UN status for the Palestinians, telling cheering crowds: "Yes, now we have a state." "Palestine has accomplished a historic achievement at the UN," he added,...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 7 months ago
Israel exacted a price for the United Nation's de facto recognition of Palestine on Sunday by confiscating $115 million in revenue even as the Palestinian president triumphantly told thousands of followers: "Now we have a state." As Mahmoud Abbas...
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Leonia Life
| 7 months ago
West Bank The Palestinian president returned triumphantly to the West Bank on Sunday, receiving a boisterous welcome from thousands of cheering supporters at a rally celebrating his people's new acceptance to the United Nations. An Israeli decision...
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
West Bank Returning to a hero's welcome Sunday after gaining limited recognition of statehood at the United Nations, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas faced fresh punitive action by Israel, which froze the transfer of more than $100...
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Japan Times
| 7 months ago
The diplomatic activities under the current Gaza ceasefire will test whether a quintet of leaders each with his own domestic critics can find a peaceful rather than a military solution to the Palestinian situation. The ceasefire language was direct...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 7 months ago
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday brushed off world condemnation of Israel's plans to expand Jewish settlements after the Palestinians won de facto U.N. recognition of statehood. "We will carry on building in Jerusalem and in all the places...
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The Boston Globe
| 7 months ago
West Bank (AP) The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has returned home to a hero's welcome after winning a resounding endorsement for Palestinian independence at the United Nations. Some 5,000 people thronged a square Sunday outside Abbas'...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has returned to a hero's welcome in the West Bank after his successful move to upgrade the Palestinians' UN status. "Now we have a state," he told cheering supporters in Ramallah. "Palestine has accomplished a...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas returned to the West Bank on Sunday after winning upgraded UN status for the Palestinians, telling cheering crowds: "Yes, now we have a state. "Palestine has accomplished a historic achievement at the UN," Abbas...
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Arab News
| 7 months ago
Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg Sunday 2 December 2012 Last Update 1 December 2012 11:48 pm On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution according Palestine a "non-member observer state", instead of the "observer status," which it had...
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Taiwan News
| 7 months ago
The leader of Gaza's ruling Hamas group will visit the Palestinian territory for the first time, an official said Saturday, a sign of increasing boldness of the Islamic militant movement after it held its own against an Israeli military offensive.
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
New York Hillary Clinton said Israeli plans to build new settlements on occupied territory would 'set back the cause of a negotiated peace'. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton , and British foreign...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reacts to applause from the crowd as he arrives to address the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters, in New York, November 29, 2012. Palestinian Territories: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is due...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
A masked Palestinian stone-throwing protester holds a bunch of flowers as he kicks a rock after clashes with Israeli security officers (unseen) at a protest against Jewish settlements, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah November 30,...
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The Jakarta Post
| 7 months ago
Marty said that from the very beginning, Indonesia had supported the Palestinian struggle, but it had not only voted for Palestine's new status but had also initiated a path toward resolution with other countries as cosponsors. Despite the enormous...
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Boston.com
| 7 months ago
Israel responded swiftly Friday to U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state, revealing it will build 3,000 more homes for Jews on Israeli-occupied lands that the world body overwhelmingly said belong to the Palestinians. The plans also include future...
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Mail Online UK
| 7 months ago
Israel has revealed plans to build 3,000 more settlement homes in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank just one day after the UN voted to recognise a Palestinian state. In response, the Palestinian Authority says they will not resume peace talks...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Palestinians hold posters of President Mahmoud Abbas during a rally in support of Abbas's efforts to secure a diplomatic upgrade at the United Nations, in Gaza City November 29, 2012...General Assembly is set to implicitly recognize a sovereign state...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 months ago
The move, which has drawn widespread criticism, including from stalwart Israel ally the United States, is seen as punishment for the United Nations General Assembly vote. A US State Department official says both the vote and the settlement expansion...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 7 months ago
Israel Threatens To Reoccupy West Bank Israeli member of Knesset, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development and the development of the Negev and Galilee, Silvan Shalom, threatened that Israel would reoccupy the West Bank in response...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
The nine countries who voted against upgrading Palestine's status were Canada, the Czech Republic, Israel, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Panama, and the U.S.. The General Assembly President Vuk Jeremic...
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Mail Online UK
| 7 months ago
Israel still controls the West Bank, east Jerusalem and access to Gaza, and it accused the Palestinians of bypassing negotiations with the campaign to upgrade their U.N. status. Angered diplomat: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Israel says a vote upgrading the Palestinian status at the United Nations is "negative political theatre" that will "hurt peace". Government spokesman Mark Regev said the move had taken Palestinians and Israelis out of a negotiating process. The...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
West Bank Euphoric Palestinians erupted in cheers, set off fireworks and chanted "God is great" after the United Nations endorsed an independent state of Palestine, giving sweeping international backing to their demands for sovereignty over lands...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The Palestinians' historic UN success sparked angry recriminations in Israel on Friday, with officials saying it crippled peace hopes and the opposition blaming government inaction for causing the crisis. But several pundits also suggested it could...
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Kuwait Times
| 7 months ago
The UN General Assembly yesterday voted overwhelmingly to recognize Palestine as a non-member state, handing a major triumph to president Mahmud Abbas in the face of fierce US and Israeli opposition. Abbas demanded the United Nations give a birth...
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SwissInfo
| 7 months ago
Switzerland was one of 137 countries to have backed granting it non-member observer status. Swiss Ambassador to the UN Paul Seger told the General Assembly that Switzerland's support was a move to invigorate the peace process. We believe that...
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Globes Online
| 7 months ago
20, Ron Dagoni, Washington "A defeat for Israel?...Only 87 of the 193 members of the UN are countries defined as democracies. In other words, more than 100 members of the UN are countries living under repressive regimes. The Palestinian Authority's...
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Asian Tribune
| 7 months ago
32 editor In an overwhelming majority at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, 29 November to elevate Palestine to the status of a State, Asian Tribune endorses the interpretation that the State of Palestine's 'Birth Certificate' has...
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DAWN
| 7 months ago
Abbas wins UN birth certificate' for Palestine state AFP 21 mins ago Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the General Assembly at the United Nations before a UN General Assembly vote on upgrading the status of the Palestinians to...
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Inquirer.net
| 7 months ago
Philippines The Philippines on Friday lauded the decision of the United Nations (UN) to recognize a Palestinian state, saying that the country supported Palestine's quest for self-rule and self-determination. The Philippines supports Palestine's...
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GMA News
| 7 months ago
The 193-nation UN General Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the world body to issue its long overdue "birth certificate." ...
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Al Jazeera English
| 7 months ago
49 The United Nations has voted overwhelmingly to recognise a Palestinian state. The vote, which was taken at a meeting of the body in New York on Thursday, represents a long-sought victory for the Palestinians but a diplomatic defeat for the US,...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
The United Nations Thursday voted to upgrade Palestine to non-member observer status, with 138 countries voting in favor, nine against and 41 abstaining. The upgrade will help the Palestinian Authority and President Mahmoud Abbas challenge Israel in...
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CNN
| 7 months ago
The resolution elevates their status from "non-member observer entity" to "non-member observer state," the same category as the Vatican, which Palestinians hope will provide new leverage in their dealings with Israel. Its leaders had been working...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
UN and in Ramallah Palestinians celebrate in Ramallah after the general assembly voted to recognise Palestine as a non-member state. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images The United Nations general assembly voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to...
