The United States on Monday denounced the Palestinian bid to upgrade its status at the United Nations to a sovereign country, claiming it would “jeopardize the peace process.”
The US position in this regard hasn’t changed from last year, when Palestinian authorities tried to win recognition of full statehood at the UN. This year, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced, they will aim to be recognized as “a non-member state.”
“Unilateral actions, including initiatives to grant Palestinians non-member state observer status at the United Nations, would only jeopardize the peace process and complicate efforts to return the parties to direct negotiations,” the US mbassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, told the Security Council on Monday.
But the so-called “peace process” is a failed model that tries to maintain the illusion of fair and equal negotiations while the US supports Israel in its continuing campaign of expanding Jewish settlements, destruction of Palestinian homes, displacement, and denial of Palestinian rights.
“The average Palestinian has also lost hope in the peace process,” Barak Ravid writes in the Israeli daily Haaretz. “He’s given up hopes of ending the Israeli occupation” and the upcoming Israeli elections, in which right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu is expected to win re-election, has “only served to enhance the depression” and apathy in Palestine.
“Any efforts to use international fora to prejudge final status issues that can only be resolved directly by the parties will neither improve the daily lives of Palestinians nor foster the trust essential to make progress towards a two state solution,” Rice said.
The translation of this is that since virtually the entire world agrees with the Palestinians on the key elements of a political settlement and disagrees with the US and Israel – who stand virtually alone – the issue cannot be effectively decided by referendum.
The Palestinian bid for non-member state status will likely be debated in mid-November, after the US election. But even without campaign pressures, the Obama administration maintains the position that Palestinian rights to statehood must continue to be blocked at the United Nations.
World to US: Shut the hell up.
Another Black stooge named Rice out there doing the dirty werk…… like the mushroom clouds that her namesake and predecessor alluded to… Just more lies and distortions…. Piling onto the already deprived and beleaguered… I wonder what Martin Luther King would have to say about such perfidies……
Are these people are out of their mind or they just don't know what a hell they are doing, look rice what would it take for this peace plan of yours to work, what Palestinians needs to give more then their life to get what is their rights, their homes are stolen from them so as their land, can they been killed more or can us or EU kill them all….? For Palestinians to have their on state.
Land of the free promotes and supports genocide, occupation and barbarism….
The UN decided that in 1948. Boil the RICE.
Am I reading the US statement right? Going to the UN hurts the peace process? I thought that is why the UN was formed, to promte peace.
Peace process? That's laughable. Had the world said in 1948… "Your demands for a homeland are a threat to peace" and then denied those people, foreigners as they were, their demands, and then dragged their feet for generations, can you just imagine the howls that would have raised? It might actually have been the best thing mankind could have ever done but this circus turns everything on it's head.
News flash, Rice…there is no peace process…there are no "direct negotiations" BECAUSE there is no peace process to negotiate…because Israel doesn't want a peace process…they just want the Palestinians gone.
Not necessarily gone, but rather transformed into a cheerfully subservient group of workers who will delight in sanitizing toilets, hoeing and then harvesting rows of export vegetables, expert in the use of the "mangle" to iron sheets for the beds of tourists in hotels, recycling garbage, etc., etc.
Would it be too obvious to say that the US bid jeopardizes the peace process for the rest of the world?
It is better for one to think you are a fool but do not open your mouth to remove any doubt..You and your boss stand in line to suck up the zionist together with the US govt.