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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 427

statehood bid

Israel's Ambassador to UN agencies in Geneva Aviva Raz-Schechter (Elma Okic/UN Photo)
January 22, 2019, 12:59 pm
Israel blocks Palestinian bid to get observer status at UN disarmament panel
‘In close coordination with US,’ Jerusalem thwarts Ramallah’s effort to ‘politicize professional UN forums’; Israeli diplomat elected vice-chair of UN Committee on NGOs
By Raphael Ahren
Palestinians wave their national flag during a rally in Ramallah on November 29, 2012, to support Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's bid for UN recognition of statehood. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
December 27, 2018, 1:17 pm
For first time since 2011, Palestine to apply for full UN membership
Though bid is doomed to fail due to expected US veto, Israeli envoy attacks Ramallah for ‘destructive policies that have encouraged recent terror ‎attacks’
By Raphael Ahren
The Palestinian flag is raised outside UN Headquarters in New York during the 70th session of the UN General Assembly on September 30, 2015 (Raphael Ahren)
July 25, 2018, 2:47 pm
In first, ‘Palestine’ to head bloc of 134 nations at UN
Palestinians to preside over the Group of 77, largest’s coalition of developing nations; Israeli envoy laments it will become ‘a platform for spreading lies and incitement’
By Raphael Ahren
Husam Zomlot, the PLO envoy to Washington, speaks to reporters in Washington, DC, Aug. 17, 2017. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)
September 28, 2017, 6:34 pm
Israel wants US to shut Palestinians’ DC office — report
Reported move seen as retaliation for Ramallah’s Interpol membership and ongoing efforts to prosecute Israelis at the ICC
By Raphael Ahren
January 31, 2016, 12:34 am
So what if Paris recognizes a Palestinian state?
France would be neither the first European state nor the first permanent UN Security Council member to do so. Does that mean Israel can ignore Fabius’s ultimatum?
By Raphael Ahren
US President Barack Obama speaks to Democratic state legislators in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House on September 30, 2015 in Washington, DC (AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN)
October 1, 2015, 6:42 pm
Obama ‘refused to oppose Palestinian UN statehood bid’
In latest sign of Washington-Jerusalem rift, White House said to have declined repeated request to come out publicly against unilateral PA move
By ToI Staff
Scottish MP Sandra White introducing her pro-Palestine motion in the parliament in Edinburgh, April 21, 2015. (screen grab www.scottishparliament.tv)
April 22, 2015, 11:43 am
Scottish parliament discusses recognition of Palestinian state
Foreign Ministry slams the debate — held on the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day — as ‘shameful’ and ‘pointless’
By Raphael Ahren
President Reuven Rivlin (photo credit: Flash90)
January 18, 2015, 8:54 pm
Rivlin calls on Abbas to renew peace talks
President urges Palestinian counterpart to meet in Jerusalem and call off ICC suit, UN statehood bid
By AFP
Former British prime minister Tony Blair in Jerusalem, July 15, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 15, 2015, 11:43 pm
Mideast quartet to meet after failed PA statehood bid
US, UN, EU and Russia will discuss options for reviving peace process; Arab states decide to push new UN resolution
By AFP
Margot Wallstrom, Sweden's minister of foreign affairs, in her office in Stockholm, October 31, 2014 (AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand)
January 7, 2015, 12:55 pm
Swedish foreign minister cancels trip to Israel
Margot Wallström indefinitely postpones Jerusalem visit after diplomatic snub by Liberman over Palestine recognition
By ToI Staff and AFP
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. (AP/Hatem Moussa)
January 5, 2015, 7:06 pm
Hamas ‘totally opposed’ to Abbas plan for new UN bid
Spokesman says resubmission would be ‘political foolishness’ and ‘plays a dangerous game with the destiny of our nation’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk, September 18, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
December 31, 2014, 3:15 pm
Hamas blasts Abbas over unsuccessful UN bid
Gaza spokesman calls statehood attempt by the Palestinian Authority president a ‘new failure’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour speaks after the UN Security Council approved an anti-settlements resolution, December 23, 2016 (Frank Franklin II/AP)
December 31, 2014, 4:37 am
A stinging defeat for Abbas, but no great victory for Israel
Netanyahu persuaded Nigeria to abstain as UN Security Council rejected Palestinian statehood, but could only muster US and Australian opposition, and the French let Israel down
By Raphael Ahren
The UN Security Council (AP/Jason DeCrow)
December 29, 2014, 8:03 pm
Arabs discuss United Nations Palestine resolution
Netanyahu slams PA over statehood bid, calls for ‘responsible’ countries to oppose upcoming Security Council vote
By AP
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki looks on prior to the start of an emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council on the Gaza crisis on July 23, 2014 at the United Nations Offices in Geneva (photo credit: AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI)
December 29, 2014, 12:18 pm
Palestinian statehood vote likely pushed to 2015, FM says
Riyad al-Maliki acknowledges ‘contradictory’ Palestinian statements, says UN bureaucracy may take time
By Elhanan Miller
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