Palestinians Request U.N. Status

[YankeeFan]

Lots of support for this, but the President will veto it at the Security Council if he has to, which will surely disappoint a lot of his supporters.

Mr. Abbas was greeted by numerous standing ovations from the moment he approached the lectern to deliver his speech to the General Assembly. “I do not believe anyone with a shred of conscience can reject our application for full admission in the United Nations,” Mr. Abbas said, calling statehood “the realization of the inalienable national rights of the Palestinian people.”

The largest and most sustained applause, along with cheers and whistles of approval, came as Mr. Abbas held up a copy of the letter requesting membership that he said he had handed to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon shortly before. “The time has come,” he said.

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The request for Palestinian statehood on land occupied by Israel has become the dominant issue at this year’s General Assembly, refocusing global attention on one of the world’s most intractable conflicts.

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He described the West Bank as “the last occupation” in the world, one that showed no sign of ending. “It is neither possible nor practical nor acceptable to return to conducting business as usual,” he said.

Drawing a line between his statehood request and the revolutions that swept through the Arab world this spring, he said, “The time has come also for the Palestinian spring, the time for independence.”

The Security Council is likely to take up the issue in earnest next week, diplomats said, when the question becomes whether the United States and its allies can stall it.

Washington is also working to prevent the Palestinians from gathering the nine votes needed for it to pass in the full council and thus avoid further wrecking the image of the United States in the Middle East by casting yet another veto against something Arabs dearly want.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/palestinians-submit-statehood-bid-at-un.html?hp=&pagewanted=all

 

[Boom_70]

Has Planning and Zoning signed off on this? Has environmental impact study been done?

If not this application is still a ways away from approval.

 

[cranberry]

I'm not disappointed. Veto is the right move even though it will cause protest in the middle east. The two parties need to negotiate this themselves. UN recognition would only exacerbate the situation. Hopefully, this will light a fire under the Israelis to get a little more serious about getting a deal done. Just another tough decision you need to make as president.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

If U.S. policy is a two-state solution, which it allegedly has been for decades now, then why would it oppose one of the two states being declared a state? Israel has total power over U.S. policy in this issue, and Israeli politics make it impossible for any government there to come to an agreement acceptable to both sides and survive -- a word that has a literal meaning for leaders of both entities in the negotiations.
Nothing will change and nothing will be done, and things in that small area of the world will continue their gradual deterioration towards catastrophe.

 

[SpeedTchr]

Has Planning and Zoning signed off on this? Has environmental impact study been done?

If not this application is still a ways away from approval.

The snail darters just said hold the **** up hoss.