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Topic: Palestinian UN bid

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December 2, 2012
9:11 am

Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas in May. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu sends thanks to Prague for support at UN

Prime minister calls Czech vote against Palestinian upgrade ‘courageous’

December 2, 2012
8:41 am

Mahmoud Abbas speaking in Ramallah Sunday. (photo credit: Screenshot/Palestine TV)

Victorious Mahmoud Abbas feted by thousands in Ramallah

PA chief says no plans to turn to The Hague in a case against Israel, unless ‘the Palestinian people are attacked’

By Gabe Fisher

December 1, 2012
1:38 pm

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, left, meets with British Foreign Secretary William Hague in Jerusalem, in 2010 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

UK, France urge Israel to reverse decision on settlement construction

British foreign secretary says plans will ‘undermine Israel’s international reputation’ and make two-state solution difficult to achieve

By Yoel Goldman

December 1, 2012
11:40 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, leaves the United Nations Plaza Hotel on Friday (photo credit: AP/Louis Lanzano)

Abbas says Palestine now ‘a country under occupation’

PA president says he’s not ready to turn to the ICC yet

By Yoel Goldman

December 1, 2012
8:41 am

Palestinians celebrating in the West Bank city of Ramallah after the UN General Assembly voted to recognize Palestine as a non-member observer state, November 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinian Authority officially changing its name to Palestine

Belgium elevates status of PA representative to ambassador, Palestinian sources report

By Yoel Goldman

November 30, 2012
11:56 pm

The game has changed…but to what?

The Palestinians’ upgraded UN status impacts the status quo – but to what degree is still uncertain

By Grant Rumley

November 30, 2012
6:01 pm

The electronic screen at the UN General Assembly showing the votes according to country (photo credit: screen capture UNGA livestream)

Margin of UN defeat disappoints Israel

From the web The result — 138 nations against 9 opposed, with 41 members abstaining — makes it hard not to see this as ‘a total failure for our diplomacy,’ senior official tells Reuters

November 30, 2012
5:33 pm

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week in Ramallah (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90).

AIPAC calls for review of US-Palestinian ties

In wake of UN vote granting observer state status to Palestine, political lobby calls for shutdown of PLO office in Washington

By Ron Kampeas

November 30, 2012
3:31 pm

Crowds in Ramallah watch the speech of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN, November 29, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

In Ramallah, UN vote brings little jubilation

‘We don’t want ’67,’ says a young university graduate. ‘We want all of Palestine’

By Elhanan Miller

November 30, 2012
2:59 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Jerusalem in 2011 (photo credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu to meet with Merkel following UN vote

Germany is one of 41 nations that abstained from voting to recognize Palestinian nonmember observer state

November 30, 2012
2:54 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)

A (nonmember observer) state is born

Abbas leads the charge to Palestinian statehood; Labor awaits the results of its primaries; and a growing number of Israeli families fall below the poverty line

By Yossi Nachemi

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

By AP and Times of Israel staff

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
3:25 am

Palestinians celebrate as they watch a screen showing the UN General Assembly votes on a resolution to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority to a nonmember observer state, In the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, November 29, 2012. (photo credit: Majdi Mohammed/AP)

‘It’s a first step to a country,’ says elated young Palestinian journalist

Reporter’s notebook: After the overwhelming vote at the General Assembly on Thursday, Palestinians were excited and hopeful, convinced of the history of the moment — and wary of speaking to an Israeli journalist

By Haviv Rettig Gur

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

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Palestinian UN bid

Netanyahu sends thanks to Prague for support at UN

Prime minister calls Czech vote against Palestinian upgrade ‘courageous’

Victorious Mahmoud Abbas feted by thousands in Ramallah

PA chief says no plans to turn to The Hague in a case against Israel, unless ‘the Palestinian people are attacked’

UK, France urge Israel to reverse decision on settlement construction

British foreign secretary says plans will ‘undermine Israel’s international reputation’ and make two-state solution difficult to achieve

Abbas says Palestine now ‘a country under occupation’

PA president says he’s not ready to turn to the ICC yet

Palestinian Authority officially changing its name to Palestine

Belgium elevates status of PA representative to ambassador, Palestinian sources report

The game has changed…but to what?

The Palestinians’ upgraded UN status impacts the status quo – but to what degree is still uncertain

Margin of UN defeat disappoints Israel

From the web The result — 138 nations against 9 opposed, with 41 members abstaining — makes it hard not to see this as ‘a total failure for our diplomacy,’ senior official tells Reuters

AIPAC calls for review of US-Palestinian ties

In wake of UN vote granting observer state status to Palestine, political lobby calls for shutdown of PLO office in Washington

In Ramallah, UN vote brings little jubilation

‘We don’t want ’67,’ says a young university graduate. ‘We want all of Palestine’

Netanyahu to meet with Merkel following UN vote

Germany is one of 41 nations that abstained from voting to recognize Palestinian nonmember observer state

A (nonmember observer) state is born

Abbas leads the charge to Palestinian statehood; Labor awaits the results of its primaries; and a growing number of Israeli families fall below the poverty line

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

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’

‘It’s a first step to a country,’ says elated young Palestinian journalist

Reporter’s notebook: After the overwhelming vote at the General Assembly on Thursday, Palestinians were excited and hopeful, convinced of the history of the moment — and wary of speaking to an Israeli journalist

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

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