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Palestinians set on UN statehood bid in September
Palestinians will seek recognition as a UN member-state in September given the deadlock in US-brokered peacemaking with Israel, a senior Palestinian official said on Saturday.
Nabil Shaath urged President Barack Obama, who on Thursday criticised the planned move at the UN general assembly, to join countries that have already endorsed a Palestinian state taking in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Another Palestinian official, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said the drive to win statehood status unilaterally could be forestalled should Israel accept the demand to extend a freeze on its settlement on occupied land so that negotiations can resume.
But such rapprochement looked highly unlikely after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hosted in Washington on Friday, sparred with Obama over a new U.S. call for the future Palestinian state to have a border approximating to the West Banks boundary before Israel captured it in the 1967 war.
Of course we will go to the United Nations, Shaath, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, told Reuters. Especially after Netanyahu used the old pretext that he needs defensible borders to keep stealing our land, control the Jordan Valley and create demographic facts on the ground.
World News | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers
Palestinians will seek recognition as a UN member-state in September given the deadlock in US-brokered peacemaking with Israel, a senior Palestinian official said on Saturday.
Nabil Shaath urged President Barack Obama, who on Thursday criticised the planned move at the UN general assembly, to join countries that have already endorsed a Palestinian state taking in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Another Palestinian official, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said the drive to win statehood status unilaterally could be forestalled should Israel accept the demand to extend a freeze on its settlement on occupied land so that negotiations can resume.
But such rapprochement looked highly unlikely after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hosted in Washington on Friday, sparred with Obama over a new U.S. call for the future Palestinian state to have a border approximating to the West Banks boundary before Israel captured it in the 1967 war.
Of course we will go to the United Nations, Shaath, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, told Reuters. Especially after Netanyahu used the old pretext that he needs defensible borders to keep stealing our land, control the Jordan Valley and create demographic facts on the ground.
World News | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers
