The United States is working diligently to pressure the other members of the United Nations Security Council to vote against next week’s Palestinian bid for statehood, hoping to avoid embarrassment on the international stage by having to invoke its veto power.
The Palestinian Authority on Saturday warned that a US veto would destroy any hope for a two-state solution. Paradoxically, the US leadership has said for months that submitting a request for Palestinian statehood along the internationally recognized border would be counterproductive to the goal of a two state solution, although never offering an explanation as to how.
Before resorting to pressuring others at the UN to thwart a Palestinian request for full membership, US diplomats David Hale and Dennis Ross tried presenting alternative measures to dissuade the PA from making the request. Palestinian negotiators were unimpressed with their proposals.
“This was the statement supposed to persuade Abu Mazen [Abbas] not to go?” PA negotiator Nabil Shaath said. His incredulity arose out of the fact that the US proposal made no mention of Israeli settlements, of the future of Jerusalem, or of refugees’ right of return. The US, he added, was “not a neutral observer, but a strategic ally of Israel”.
While the US has failed to make sense of its inexplicable objection – that UN-granted statehood would fail to give Palestinians their statehood – it appears the real objection comes from Israel’s sprawling settlements on Palestinian land. Settlement construction, which often follows eviction and destruction of Palestinian homes, has risen dramatically in recent months and Israel prefers that land belong to Israel. If Palestinian statehood is based on the legally recognized 1967 border, settlements would presumably have to be dismantled – thus Israeli and US objection.
i sincerely hope the Palestinians are successful and the US will have to hang its sorry head in shame.
War criminals deny the right of self determination to others. Even HITLER did not do this. Us again proves that is a mouse in fron t of its fifth column that actualy controls everything in this country. What a waste , what a shame for the Americans….
“US has failed to make sense of its inexplicable objection”
But surely, Empire USA has a monopoly on Middle-East oil, its biggest money maker is trading war materials for Middle-East oil, and this reality is well known by anyone who has any control over oil, the war materials industry or the Middle-East.
And as Abbas is a paid actor hired by the rich ruling class of Palestine, as the rich of both USA and Palestine have always been in perfect harmony, UN statehood for Palestine is just a distraction that will accomplish absolutely nothing.
This ongoing madness obviously has nothing to do with "oil".
((US diplomats David Hale & Dennis Ross tried presenting alternative measures to dissuade the PA from making the request)).. Two pure Zionist Jewish Americans efforts to serve their promised land. Also Mahmoud Abbas is not Muslim. He belongs to the Bahae' sect. Guess where is the Bahae' main temple is Located. It's located in Haifa Israel at the best peice of land. This is 100% M. Abbas & the rest of the PLO are Zionist patsies working to destroy Palestinians.
If they are patsies, why is the US and Israel working so hard to sabotage any attempt to be recognized?
Is it difficult to negotiate with zionists? Just ask Lord Moyne or Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden. if its difficult.
60 years of "peace negotiations" what a croc!
Long Live Free Palestine!
If it weren't so pathetic, it would actually be entertaining to watch the US and Israel scramble about holding their hands in both hands trying to pay off, blackmail, threaten, coerce and get themselves out of the mess they have put themselves in. To the Axis of Evil I say, you've made your bed, now lay in it!
How do you say, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" in Hebrew?
The U.S. position on Palestine not being recognized as a state is not inexplicable. Israel has been conducting slow motion genocide against Palestinians some time now. Israel doesn’t want the Palestinians to have a state they want the Palestinians evicted from Israel altogether. And since that’s what Israel wants, that’s what the U.S. wants since they run our foreign policy. Nothing inexplicable about that. If you are evicting an ethnic group from your nation the last thing you want to do is give them any kind of power thus all the pap coming from the U.S. about supporting a two state solution is pure bull. The racist aspect of this is all too obvious.
This proposal is guaranteed to get vetoed by the US. The US is lamely trying to avoid this, but will there be any real percussions? No one else has yet to stand up to US bullying on this issue.
The bottom line is: always try to cheat the Palestinians. Steal their land, steal their rights, destroy their livelihoods, destroy their dignity. And do it piously with the dagger hidden in the bible or wrapped in the flag.
yeah just apply the Libiyan "NTC" model, cake by drip IV
It's only a matter of time before natural justice prevails. In fact, a veto will only bring it on.
The US and Israel never 4ever intended to give plistine statehoods it was all a sham to stall well Israel steels there land and commits slow genicide.As far as American puppets go its coming to an end with them being over throughn and people knowing exactly how they serve.America takes 1 setp foward and 3 backward there time is close to an end as far as being the worlds supert power and being able to itimidate.Its like when you are growing up there is always bullys untill people stand up to them then you see there true colours.Its the same with America and Israel all the world needs to do is stand up to them and there crimes will have to stop or face wars that make Afganistan and Iraq look like a party.