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Topic: Palestinian statehood

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November 30, 2012
1:57 pm

The International Criminal Court in The Hague (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Hanhil, Nederlandstalige Wikipedia)

International Criminal Court to consider implications of UN vote on Palestine

Prosecutors at The Hague previously rejected Palestinian request to investigate possible Israeli war crimes

November 30, 2012
7:54 am

Then-foreign minister Tzipi Livni, then-prime minister Ehud Olmert, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei, during a meeting in Jerusalem in November, 2007 (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Livni blames Netanyahu government for UN vote

Meretz head Gal-On says Israel’s rejectionist foreign policy has received ‘a resounding slap in the face’

By Yoel Goldman

November 30, 2012
12:52 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appeals to all nations to vote in favor of the Palestinians "as an investment in peace," in a statement before the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Nov. 29 (photo credit: Richard Drew/AP)

Like it or not, the state of Palestine is semi-officially on the map

Nearly unanimous support for Abbas’s UN bid shows that even some of Israel’s closest allies blame the Netanyahu government for the impasse in the peace process

By Raphael Ahren

November 30, 2012
12:51 am

Seen through a Palestinian flag, people rally in support of the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday, Nov. 29 (photo credit: AP/Nasser Ishtayeh)

65 years after approving partition plan, UN General Assembly upgrades ‘Palestine’ to nonmember observer state

Palestinian flag unfurled on the floor of the General Assembly after overwhelming majority of members elect to grant PA same status as The Vatican

By AP and Times of Israel staff

November 29, 2012
11:47 pm

Israel's UN Ambassador Ron Prosor addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

Full text of Ron Prosor’s speech to the UN General Assembly, November 29, 2012

‘Israel is a nation that never hesitates to defend itself, but will always extend its hand for peace,’ says Israel’s ambassador to the UN

November 29, 2012
11:41 pm

Full text of Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the UN General Assembly, November 29, 2012

‘The General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the State of Palestine,’ says PA president

November 29, 2012
11:16 pm

Palestinians wave Fatah flags behind a poster of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a rally in support of the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status, in Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 29 (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

Palestinians glued to screens watching the world grant them updated status

‘Today the world will hear our voice,’ says reveler at Ramallah’s central square

By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh

November 29, 2012
10:31 pm

Supporters of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas wave Fatah movement flags during a rally in Gaza City on November 29 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Palestinians will get UN upgrade but true powers remain elusive

What unfolds will depend on how hard Palestinians want to pursue membership in various agencies, and who will support them

By Peter James Spielmann

November 29, 2012
10:07 pm

US Senator Lindsey Graham (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US lawmakers threaten to halt aid to Palestinians if they use UN upgrade against Israel

Senator Lindsey Graham says he fears new status will be abused ‘as a club against Israel’

By Donna Cassata

November 29, 2012
5:31 pm

Palestinian schoolgirls hold pictures of President Mahmoud Abbas with Yasser Arafat, flowers and olive branches during a rally supporting the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. (photo credit:AP/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Hamas changes its tune, celebrates Palestinian UN bid

Thousands of Palestinians from rival factions take to the streets of West Bank cities ahead of landmark vote

By Amy Tiebel and Karin Laub

November 29, 2012
12:42 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a visit to an exhibition marking 35 years since Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel, at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, on Thursday, November 29 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘There is no power in the world that can disconnect the Jewish people from the land of Israel,’ Netanyahu says

Germany announces it will abstain at the General Assembly, Abbas brushes off ‘heavy’ pressure to abandon UN upgrade gambit

By Aaron Kalman and Gabe Fisher

November 29, 2012
10:25 am

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Nov. 16 (photo AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Abbas brushes off Israeli threats surrounding UN bid

While supporters call General Assembly vote on Palestine a ‘historic moment,’ Jerusalem downplays the bid as ‘a virtual move’

By Aaron Kalman

November 29, 2012
8:09 am

Will the Palestinians attempt to drag Israel before the court rather than sit down to peace talks? A courtroom at the International Criminal Court, The Hague (photo credit: CC BY Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Flickr)

The UN vote, the International Criminal Court and the riddle of Palestinian intentions

Whether the Palestinian Authority’s UN bid is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for peace depends on what the PA plans to do after the vote, and most of the signals don’t favor the optimists

By Haviv Rettig Gur

November 29, 2012
5:04 am

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert arrives at the District Court in Jerusalem, September 2012 (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Hours ahead of vote, former PM Olmert comes out in favor of Palestinian UN bid

Echoing PA’s position, Olmert says nonmember state status is congruent with two-state solution, will help move talks forward

By Joshua Davidovich

November 29, 2012
3:33 am

Julia Gillard, then Australia's deputy prime minister, meets Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Jerusalem, June 2009 (photo credit: Assaf Ravitz/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

Australian PM facing backlash from Jewish groups over PA statehood abstention

Despite strong history of Israel support, Julia Gillard forced by own party to not oppose UN vote, drawing fire from Jewish groups and Israeli Embassy