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Topic: Palestinian statehood

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November 29, 2012
12:55 am

Palestinian security officers slide down a building next to a banner of President Mahmoud Abbas with Yasser Arafat, in the West Bank town of Jenin on Wednesday. Arabic on the left reads "our hero prisoners, the covenant is the covenant and the section is the section, your liberty will stay our first priority," and right, "all your people (are) with you."(photo credit: AP/Mohammed Ballas)

Palestinians reject 11th-hour bid by US to stop statehood gambit

PA remains committed to going ahead with request for nonmember state status at UN after Abbas meets with top State Department officials

By Joshua Davidovich and AP

November 28, 2012
11:25 pm

Why I back Abbas’s UN initiative

The Palestinians are my neighbors and we are going to live together side by side forever.

By Meir Javedanfar

November 28, 2012
7:58 pm

The United Nations General Assembly hall in New York (photo credit: CC BY linh.m.do, Flickr)

Draft of the Palestinian UN application for nonmember status (full text)

Document calls on member states to approve the petition of ‘the State of Palestine for admission to full membership in the United Nations’

November 28, 2012
1:05 pm

How will they vote? European countries are expected to support a Palestinian bid at the U.N. later this week. In this photo, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in February 2012. (photo credit: Fadi Arouri/POOL/FLASH90)

Can The Movement move votes?

Tzipi Livni returns to the political scene; Avigdor Liberman can breathe easier

By Yossi Nachemi

November 27, 2012
7:26 pm

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas leaves the podium after speaking during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 27, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Seth Wenig)

In about-face, Israel says it won’t cancel Oslo if Palestinians pursue UN bid

If Abbas unilaterally seeks statehood status, Jerusalem will weigh other punitive measures, senior official says

By Raphael Ahren

November 27, 2012
6:15 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in September (photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

Days away from UN vote, Palestinians practically assured of victory

Australia to abstain Thursday on upgrading Palestinian status to de facto state; Abbas to address forum

By Edith M. Lederer

November 26, 2012
10:22 pm

US still working to thwart Palestinian UN bid, senior official says

America said to be pursuing several avenues to counter PA’s initiative to gain nonmember status

By Michal Shmulovich

November 26, 2012
5:05 am

A Palestinian protester faces Israeli security forces in the West Bank in November, 2012 (photo credit: Photo by Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Britain has a duty to back us at UN, say Palestinians

From the web UK has yet to decide whether to support Abbas’s bid for statehood status, reports The Daily Telegraph

November 24, 2012
2:59 pm

Minister of Environmental Protection Gilad Erdan (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90/File)

Environmental protection minister calls Abbas a Hamas operative in disguise

‘At least Arafat wore a uniform, not a suit,’ says Gilad Erdan

By Yoel Goldman

November 24, 2012
4:16 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaking in Ramallah on October 13, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

US Senators warn Abbas about upcoming UN bid

Democrats and Republicans say move could jeopardize American aid, and that negotiations are the only way to a Palestinian state

November 23, 2012
9:34 am

China supports Abbas’s statehood bid, says Palestinian envoy

Beijing pledges $1 million in aid, reportedly opposes Israeli ‘aggression’

November 23, 2012
9:18 am

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi waves to a Cairo crowd in October before making a speech on the national holiday that marks Egypt's 1973 war with Israel (photo credit: AP/Egyptian Presidency)

US pins its hopes on Egypt after Gaza ceasefire

Despite lukewarm relations in recent months, Obama administration looks to Egypt’s Morsi to shepherd the peace

By Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee

November 22, 2012
11:27 pm

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius with PM Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Sunday, November 18, 2012. (photo credit: Valentine Bourrat/French embassy Tel Aviv)

France indicates support for Palestinian UN vote

From the web FM Laurent Fabius hints Paris will endorse the initiative to upgrade the PA to nonmember status, Reuters reports

November 15, 2012
4:49 pm

Saeb Erekat, in Ramallah in January. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

PA derides Liberman’s threats to topple Abbas, says UN bid ‘only chance of peace’

Chief Palestinian negotiator also condemns killing of Ahmad Jabari

By Philip Podolsky

November 14, 2012
1:48 pm

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz (right) meets with PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as they sign an economic agreement in Jerusalem on July 31 (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Aiming to thwart Palestinian UN bid, ministers up the rhetoric against Abbas

Finance minister says status upgrade bid is strategic threat to Israel, foreign minister says Abbas is going to NY to save his skin

By Ron Friedman and Raphael Ahren

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