Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday he expected the Security Council to finish debating Palestine’s application for full United Nations membership within weeks, instead of months.
Abbas told reporters after his official submission request that members of the Security Council were initially unenthusiastic about the bid, but that his speech seemed to change their minds and gained their support.
The US and Israel are the most vocal opposition to Palestine’s bid for statehood, in the minority that do oppose it. They have urged the Palestinians to return to the failed peace talks immediately, but the Palestinian Authority has refused until after their efforts at the UN.
A proposal by the Quartet was rejected by Palestinians because it did not even mention a settlement freeze and an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines, illustrating again how inflexible they are on the conflict’s core issues.
So, the Palestinians are supposed to return to 'negotiations' where the pre-conditions are such that a settlement freeze and peace on the internationally recognized borders are off the table from the beginning. Sounds like Tony Soprano style negotiations with someone he thinks is tied to a chair and has a gun pointed a their head. Which is why the US and Israel hate this idea of applying for statehood, as its the Palestinians attempting to get themselves untied and somehow try to have fair negotiations instead.
The “Quartet,” a most comical bunch of Western powers, they being the very ones that created Zionist Israel, and to save the world surely have a burden to subject their spoiled child to a no-fly zone plus naval blockage.
Its like a cartoon where cattle rustlers hold a gun to the farmers head, and each time they take a cow out of the barn, say, “Sure you don’t want to negotiate? Any price is better then what your getting now.
Only a moron or lunatic would take seriously The Quartet's offer of a brokered peace while the Israeli "settlers" continue to gobble up Palestinian land inch by inch.
Mr John Ellis Thank you for your brevity but simple explanation to this inhumanity brought about by the british and americans.It is my fervent hope that the palestinians get their just due at the UN.
Americans should be thoroughly ashamed that israel-first traitors to our country control our government and dictate that we abandon the very principles of our democracy (simple things like: "all men are created equal and have equal rights") to "support" a racist, totalitarian ideology like zionism.
When are you Americans ever going to to show some fair play?
America now is peopled by a spineless mob who let their Leaders(?) get away with murder whilst the country is ruined.
Mr Andron you took the words right out of my mouth.