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Palestinian Leader Announces Bid for Full U.N. Membership

RAMALLAH, West Bank (The Blaze/AP) — The Palestinian president said Friday that he will ask the U.N. Security Council next week to endorse his statehood bid, a step that would risk a threatened U.S. veto in the council.

But in a speech to the Palestinian people before departing for New York, President Mahmoud Abbas appeared to leave himself some wiggle room, saying he did not rule out other, unspecified options. He also acknowledged that his U.N. move would not end the Israeli occupation and cautioned against outsized hopes. The New York Times has more:

The announcement by the president, Mahmoud Abbas, in a televised speech delivered at his headquarters in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was the first time he has formally committed to such a strategy, which Palestinian officials have been moving toward for months as their frustration over stalled peace talks with Israel has intensified.

“We don’t want to raise expectations by saying we are going to come back with full independence,” Abbas said in an address to Palestinian leaders. He said he was going to the United Nations to “ask the world to shoulder its responsibilities” by backing the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.

He urged the Palestinian people to refrain from violence, saying “anything other than peaceful moves will harm us and sabotage our endeavors.”

Israel – and Washington – oppose the Palestinians’ quest for a U.N. nod, saying the only way to deliver a Palestinian state is through negotiations, the cornerstone of Mideast peace efforts for the past two decades.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said Thursday that Abbas would submit his statehood bid to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon after addressing the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 23.

Although things will not change on the ground, the Palestinians hope the U.N. move will give them greater leverage in future negotiations with Israel by elevating their international profile and giving them access to world bodies like the International Criminal Court.

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  • The next to last american president
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 5:06pm

    we are bankrupt and forced to educate, feed, clothe, house and provide health care for illegals.
    Why educate illegals?‏
    To d williams
    From: stoney.crockett@rcstn.net
    Sent: Fri 9/16/11 3:36 PM
    To: d williams

    Mr Williams

    I want to thank you for your comments.

    The school system is required by federal not to ask if a student is legal or illegal. The school is required by law to educate all regardless if the are illegal citizen of the US.

    It is the school system’s job to provide the best education to all the students that attend and to do in a safe and clean environment.

    Thanks again,

    Stoney Crockett

    9/15/11

    To stoney.crockett@rcstn.net

    Why do you waste our tax dollars educating the children of illegal’s. The next time our property taxes are increased, we will file a law suit and protest. It is time to take a stand. Government takes more and more and can never get enough of the peoples wealth.

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    • SpankDaMonkey
      Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:51pm

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      I’m sure the WH will be “Clapping like a Bunch of Trained Seals”. I need a trash can……

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  • Bernard
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:45pm

    He urged the Palestinian people to refrain from violence, saying “anything other than peaceful moves will harm us and sabotage our endeavors.” WHAT A LIE!! Hamas and Hezbollah run Palestine. Both are internationally recongnized terrorist organizations. There is NOTHING PEACEFUL regarding Palestine.

    If Palestine is given statehood by the UN then it is time for Israel to remove herself from the UN and protect the city of Jerusalem from being carved in half. Believe me there are plenty of nations betrayed by the left leaning pitiful UN waiting to break off. If Israel takes that step, many other nations may just follow thereby making the UN like her predecessor the League of Nations.

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  • Jaycen
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:35pm

    When Jordan gives up Judea and Samaria, then we can talk. Until then, I don’t know why anyone in their right mind would consider granting statehood to squatters.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on September 20, 2011 at 7:13pm

      Fact is, Jordan hasn’t had any presence in Judaea and Samaria since 1967. It renounced all claims to the area in favor of the Palestinians as far back as 1988.

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  • leary1
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:20pm

    palistinians don`t belong in the U.N.until they REFORM AND DENOUNCE VIOLENCE, ALONG WITH making PEACE WITH ISRAEL !!!

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  • Watchingfromafar
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:24pm

    This chap has litterally been following the UN Secretary General around the world lobbying for a place in the UN. He or one of his representatives was here in New Zealand last week for the Pacific Island Forum, and he wasn’t here to watch the Rugby World Cup.

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  • deebriggs
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:19pm

    Here is youtube video that will give more info if you want to be more informed:

    http://youtu.be/oVsjNzXojCM

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    • Flakingnapstich
      Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:42pm

      Fascinating claims. What information is there that these alleged minutes are 1. Genuine and 2. Legally Relevant?

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  • Censored_by_the_Illuminati
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:40pm

    Simple solution, move Palestine in and move the US out. This country does not need to be involved in this blood sucking organization.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:38pm

    Giving the Palestinians even one pail of sand from that hell-hole of theirs would be like giving Barney Frank the keys to a mortgage vault.

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  • copatriots
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:23pm

    And our Dear Secretary of State Hillary is the most popular Politician in the World because????

    Um, someone let me know when Hillary starts actually caring about protecting Americans. Oh, nevermind….I’ll never believe she would anyway.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:23pm

    Obama is secretly pushing this agenda. He will vote for a palestinian state and statehood . Then he will brag that he brought peace…yet….the war has just begun. Obama is a secret muslim, socialist and he is an enemy to the US, the west, and Israel. Impeach him now.

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  • tankyjo
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:06pm

    Barry? Help? LOL, Only The LORD from here on out.

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  • vinnymac46
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:01pm

    “bid for un statehood” is code for we need money and as a UN sanctioned state YOU AMERICA must give us money/aid one way or another, after all we are now members of the UN goodness sakes…

    This has nothing to do with national pride, Isreal or any other bs other than this country is broke and needs a way to get money!

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  • NotPoliticallyCorrect
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:46pm

    Can we be done with the UN please?

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  • eric6161
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:41pm

    Those muslim-Israelis need to move back to their original country… wherever that may be. Most are from Jordan. I think the Israelis should tear down that satanic temple that rests on the site of Soloman’s Temple and rebuild their temple to the one true God.
    On the last day, even Mohammed will bow before the one true God before he is cast into the lake of fire unless he repented before his death and descension into hell.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:33pm

    So now the lines are being finalized for the showdown; soon enough we will see war break out between Israel and her neighbours. I do see the fact of shortly after a new state is established, which is almost a given at this stage of the game; there will occur a incident, or series of them for which Israel will be accused and the other states invade for the sake of “Protecting the new allied state of the Palestinians.”

    The only question will be when it comes, and will it go nuclear.

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  • kryptonite
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:26pm

    I will never allow a single Israeli to live among us on Palestinian land.” — Mahmoud Abbas, July 28, 2010, speaking to Egyptian media.

    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138856

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:23pm

    How does it feel to want, Abbas? idiot.

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  • elosogrande
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:23pm

    Let ‘em do whatever they want. The Palestinians belong in The U.N. – we don’t. I believe that there have been around 350 conflicts all over the world, since the U.N was formed. They have resolved …two of them.

    Let somebody else foot the bill for doing nothing.

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  • SilentReader
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:16pm

    Rewarding the Palestinian terrorist authority with statehood would be something that one would expect this corrupt organization to do. The U.N. has already been taken over by the OIC and they’re directing their every move.

    It’s time to shut the disgusting U.N. down and kick them out of America. Why are we financing these supporters of terror?

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  • 4XGrace
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:13pm

    Another excuse for an all out war against Israel – they will work up sympathy for “liberating” their “occupied” homeland. Bunch of lying creeps these Palestinian leaders. If they want peace it’s theirs to have if they put down their weapons; but that’s not what they want.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:13pm

    PRAYING, AMERICA!

    We need YOUR intervention, LORD.
    We love YOU, FATHER, and we trust YOU no matter what.

    In JESUS’ name, the JEWISH JESUS, the ONLY SON OF GOD’s NAME, WE PRAY. Amen!

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  • DanWesson455
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:04pm

    Just block the vote. Failing that…….Put em next to N. Korea. That will give the current administration heart burn for awhile.

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  • ProbIemSoIver
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:59pm

    We have to pull out of the UN !!!

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  • ares338
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:57pm

    Barry will seat them next to the USA I’m sure.

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on September 16, 2011 at 12:56pm

    Here’s your chance Barry! Stand up to the Palestinians and you will make the American Jewry smile and jiggle with pleasure.

    Oh by the way, Michelle doesn’t wear this kind of “Jewry,” moron. At least not this year…

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