According to reports from Israeli media outlet Ynet, the Palestinian Authority is engaged in secret talks with the European Union in an attempt to back off the effort to be recognized as an independent state in return for some sort of other recognition.
Details are spotty and there is no confirmation from any official sources, but the move would have the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) receive a “significant” upgrade in its recognition, albeit something still short of independent statehood.
The new rumors come following weekend confirmations that the Palestinians intend to press the matter at the UN Security Council next month, and comments yesterday related to the presumptive US veto of the process.
The Palestinians have significant international support for statehood, but the effort has been loudly opposed by the US as a “provocative” measure. The European Union has largely been supportive of statehood, but seems also to be keen to avoid a major embarrassment centering on a US veto, and the inevitable diplomatic fallout that would produce.
Might be a good idea to ignore ANYTHING attributed to Ynet and the PA. Regular Palestinians are about the business of gaining statehood. Good on them for their work too. Up the Palestine! Ynet and the PA can get stuffed.
Palistinians want statehood but have been getting attaked and know Israel will continue its illegal actions.Plus the US will veto them there should be no such thing as a country that can veto all others.Russia should veto everthing the US ever wants.They can tast their own medicine.It is not to tasty.We all know how the real terrorists are and the vreal threat to the world.3 words (Israels Sampson Option)
PLO stands for Palestine Liberation Organization which has been an umbrella organization of several different Palestinian movements most prominent among them, Fatah.
As a political party, Fatah is part of the Palestinian National Authority (aka PA) of which HAMAS is technically also a member.
your point?
Palestine will be free, with or without the approval of the US. If the US wants a peaceful transition (not to mention a piece of the nation-building contracts that will immediately follow) the President will not stand in the way. If the US wants to start another firestorm in the Middle East, he will veto Palestinian statehood. Either way, an independent Palestine is coming. As with most issues in the Middle East, the biggest threats to progress are Israel and the US- if those two nations would simply get out of the way and quit meddling so much more progress would be made.
My only request is that when it is time for the US vote in the UN, I want President Obama himself to deliver his decision- not some ambassador, not some lackey staffer. I want President Barack Hussein Obama to personally cast the vote for the US- I want to see his face when he does it. Better yet, let's have a split screen shot showing the faces of Obama and Netanyahu when Obama's vote is cast.
Better to give Israelis a taste of the medicine they have been dishing out to Pals for decades – shoot and maim some of their children, use Hellfire missiles to kill old people in wheelchairs, plus checkpoints, harrassments, intimidation, forced removal from ancestral lands – – – and suddenly this treatment, since it is being visited upon the world's Victim Tribe, will be a bad thing.