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Palestinians Set Date for UN Statehood Bid

RAMALLAH, West Bank (The Blaze/AP) — Palestinians will present their bid for United Nations membership on Sept. 20, the Palestinian foreign minister told French news service AFP Saturday.

Though a statehood bid has been widely expected, Riyad al-Maliki’s announcement is the first confirmation of a precise date.

According to the report, P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas will personally present the request to become a full-fledged state to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on the first day of the body’s new session.

Maliki said the P.A. chose September because Lebanon will hold the rotating Security Council presidency and be in a strong position to push the bid forward.

“Lebanon will hold the presidency of the Security Council in September and this will help us because the president of the council has special prerogatives, which is crucial,” Maliki told AFP.

The move will likely set the stage for a showdown with the U.S., which is expected to veto the bid — even at a time when Arab countries are rising up against authoritarian rulers.

Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi said the P.A. is “going to the U.N. with all options open….We are going to the Security Council, we are going to the General Assembly. We are not limiting ourselves to one thing.”

She urged the U.S. to abstain if it would not support the Palestinian bid outright.

(Related: Palestinian Authority Threatens to Disband if U.S. Thwarts Palestinian Statehood Efforts in September)

But the U.S., Israel’s closest ally, has much invested in a peace process it has sponsored for decades, and wants the Palestinian state to emerge from negotiations, not unilateral action.

The Palestinians, however, seem to have given up on negotiations with the current hardline Israeli government. Talks have stalled for the past few years, and Palestinians instead want the U.N. to recognize their future state in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and east Jerusalem – territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.

Israel withdrew settlers and soldiers from Gaza in 2005 but still occupies the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Ordinarily, the Security Council recommends membership and then refers the request to the General Assembly. If the council vetoes membership or delays deliberation, the Palestinians could appeal directly to the General Assembly, where they are assured the simple majority they need. They could also skip the Security Council altogether and go straight to the Assembly.

But an Assembly resolution would likely yield “nonmember state” status – at best a symbolic victory because it doesn’t empower them to challenge the occupation.

Ashrawi said the Palestinians were still drafting the text of the statehood bid and had not decided whether it would mention details such as borders or Jerusalem, whose eastern sector they claim for a future capital.

The current Israeli government, unlike earlier coalitions, insists on retaining sovereignty over all of the holy city, rejecting Palestinian claims to the traditionally Arab eastern sector for a capital.

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  • Delores at CH WV
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:50pm

    I Stand for Israel ……………………….even if Obama destroys our land with his spite and hate for America. In the End, God’s raft will give us Peace. Fear not, for God loved you enough to have sent his Son, the Prince of Peace to Save our Eternal Soul.

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    • PASSIONFORCHRIST
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:25pm

      Yes, God is setting the stage and has been setting the stage! Prophecy happening right before our eyes! ALL BELIEVERS PRAY & DON’T FORGET ABOUT OUR FULL ARMOR FROM GOD THAT HE HAS PROVIDED THROUGH HIS SON “JESUS CHRIST”. STAND WITH AND PRAY FOR ISRAEL!!!!!!!!!

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    • DarkFire
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:45pm

      so if you don’t like the country you live in you just goto the UN and tell them were making a new one in that country. is this really how it works? Cause if this is so i think we should have new states in our union the state of Iraq, Afgan, and a few other places come to mind as well.

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    • mwhaley
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:49pm

      Christians need to pray God gets us out of here before his wrath is unleashed.

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    • Pappy49
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:56pm

      Nice post… keep on keeping on :-)

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:32pm

      @DarkFire

      I think Obama already did that. In every border state there are probably “Little Mexico’s”

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:08am

      Charge them a $5.00 application fee to be paid only by money they have generated through honest GDP and they will never be able to apply. They are already a welfare “state”.

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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:48pm

    To all scoffers.You are watching the world stage being set up over a little Nation called Israel just as the Word of GOD has proclaimed.OBEY ACTS 2:38

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  • Ironmaan
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:37pm

    Why is it that “palestine” must be created from Israeli territory? Fact is the palestinian mandate included Jordan and Iraq. Why don’t they give them some land? Answer: because its not about land; its about destroying a great example of democracy in the middle east.
    http://guerillatics.com

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  • kryptonite
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:36pm

    “… hardline Israeli government?” Stupid AP. You want Israel to negotiate with Hamas, who controls Gaza? You want Israel to hand over East Jerusalem to the PA? Scr*w negotiations, Israel. Just take back the Gaza Strip.

    Israel will prevail, despite the UN, the MSM and Obama, who is no friend of Israel. End of story.

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:05pm

      Jerusalem will be their undoing !

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    • vennoye
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 3:17pm

      It will be the undoing of things as we know them now, apparently:

      Isaiah 24:1 ¶ Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. Isa 24:2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. Isaiah 24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. Isaiah 24:4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws (torah), changed the ordinance (set times-Sabbaths, etc), broken the everlasting covenant (with Abraham over land).

      If you haven’t read the 24th chapter of Isaiah..might want to review it. Am NOT looking forward to a two state solution!!

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 9:06pm

      Vennoye,
      I take it you don’t believe in the rapture (or snatching away) of the Church. Some man Jesus is, leaving his Bride to suffer the wrath of God together with the unrighteous! Why do we keep treating Jesus like a sissy? Yes, He‘s God but He’s also a MAN, for crying out loud, and He behaves like one. Christians who say Jesus will make us go through the Great Tribulation are as clueless about God’s character as those who claim God predetermines who goes to heaven and who perishes. Granted, the latter is more offensive to God because h*ll is horrific beyond words, but both teachings show a total disregard for the meaning of redemption. God does discipline us, but He never inflicts any measure of judgment on any of his children. The Great Tribulation will unleash his righteous wrath upon a wicked world, and it will get ugly beyond anything we can imagine. Isaiah 24 depicts said time. We are not appointed onto wrath. Jesus will come back for us and take us to be with Him. We will celebrate the marriage supper of the Lamb for seven years, following the Jewish tradition of his day (which was seven days).

      In re Israel, there will be no two-state solution as long as East Jerusalem is part of the deal. Israel will never, ever, EVER give up an inch of the Holy City without a fight, and God is on their side, so it ain’t gonna happen.

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  • mrsmileyface
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:35pm

    I wouldnt give the Palestinians anything until Hamas and Hezbola and the rest of the worlds muslim and arab communities acknowledge and accept Israel as a state. Until then go pound sand. I stand with Israel.

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    • Bill from NJ
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 4:23pm

      I Sir, concur with you wholeheartedly.

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    • Tankertony
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 9:42pm

      Rest assured, they won‘t be ’given’ anything more until they join civilization.

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  • blattack
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:34pm

    Genesis 15:18-21 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates – the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.” 


    Numbers 34:1-12 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance-the land of Canaan to its boundaries. Your southern border shall be from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom; then your southern border shall extend eastward to the end of the Salt Sea; your border shall turn from the southern side of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and be on the south of Kadesh Barnea; then it shall go on to Hazar Addar, and continue to Azmon; the border shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the Sea. As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your western border. And this shall be your northern border: From the Great Sea you shall mark out your border line to Mount Hor; from Mount Hor you shall mark out your border to the entrance of Hamath; then the direction of the border shall be toward Zedad; the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your northern border. You shall mark out your eastern border from Hazar Enan

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  • Mateytwo Barreett
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:32pm

    SEE! Y’all were wrong! The Hilldabeast has been accomplishing a LOT! It will be interesting to see how Steny and the dems spin this one onto the Tea Party. Lyin’ Bagstards! For the first ime in my adult life. . . .

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  • fatjack
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:27pm

    obama will at the last minute abstain thus giving the Palestinians a state as he promise in 2009 see link below. Then…………………………….he will side with the rest of the world and go to war with Israel. Oh, wait haven’t I read that scenario somewhere? The Palestinian state is a done deal.

    http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=99664

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:34pm

      Indeed, I fully expect that once the Palestinian state is declared that some kind of ‘Incident’ will then happen and UN and US troops will be sent into ‘stabalize’ the borders; which will result in the actual invasion of the territories of Israel itself. This mess via Obama is just commensing.
      http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (cat folk gallery)

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:38pm

      Over God’s dead body. Jerusalem belongs to Jesus.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:58pm

      Agreed – the US will abstain. And that will give the Arab nations & Russia the green light to move against Israel.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 2:56pm

      BeBe ‘s dusting off Fatrboy.

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  • patbarker
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:24pm

    HELL knows when to make it’s move,esp. with allies it has in the Obama regime. Never been any bigger enemies of the cross of Christ or Israel in the White House than Barack Obama

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:28pm

      They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
      4. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
      5. For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
      6. The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
      7. Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
      8. Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of lot. Selah.
      9. Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
      10. Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

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  • thecrow
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:24pm

    http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/movers-and-shakers/

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  • Uechi
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:20pm

    You want to give these terrorist animals land give the land that they occupied in Jordan in the 1940′s. I stand with Israel !

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    • babylonvi
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 6:23pm

      There are more Palestinians in Jordan then there are original Bedouins. Give them part of Jordan. If the president, Imam Obama, does not have the US veto this attempt to make these dysfunctional terrorists into a nation state before they have; a functional government or a way to support themselves, he will have started of WW III. This may indeed be his plan, just like
      FDR used WW II to finally end the depression.

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  • mcmeador
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:20pm

    As many times as they have deliberately squandered their opportunities for statehood in the past, we are supposed to believe they really want it now? There’s much more to this than meets the eye.

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:18pm

    I stand with Israel.

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  • SPOT_OF_TEA
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:18pm

    In September huh?Didn’t Glenn Beck predict this a year ago?

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  • blattack
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:17pm

    I FOREVER STAND WITH “”“ISRAEL””"

    FOR ME AND MY HOUSEHOLD IT IS YAHWEH and HIS SON WE WILL SERVE.
    THE “TRUE GOD” AND CREATOR OF HEAVEN & EARTH & ALL THE UNIVERSE

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  • patbarker
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:17pm

    “Palestine” making it’s move while Obama big in U.N. and still the Prez…

    HELL knows when it‘s time to make it’s move, and it has plenty of willing partners in D.C (esp. the Obama gang) and around the globe.

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:31pm

      1. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
      2. The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
      3. Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
      4. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
      5. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
      6. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

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  • notavictim
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:16pm

    When this happens on Obama’s watch-his ship is sunk.

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  • Thatsitivehadenough
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:12pm

    What a coincidence. 3 days after the left is organising socialists to take over Wall St. A set up? Sure looks like it is.

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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:12pm

    Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
    2. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
    3. Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
    4. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:07pm

    When you look at how the UN originally chopped up Zion/Palestine in 1948 – a piece here, a piece there…. it was like it was setup to fail from the get go…. why didn‘t they just slice it right up in half from the get go and the Jewish people would’ve given up a clean cut portion of their land to the land in 1948 and that would’ve been it. Instead when you look at the map you’ve got chunks of land that the Arab Palestinians hold and there is the chunks of land the Jewish Palestinians hold.

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:06pm

    A burdensome stone I will make thee and all those who try to move you will be cut to pieces. I will curse those who curse thee and bless those who bless thee.

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  • Ducky 1
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:05pm

    I believe the true intent of this is the destruction of Israel.

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:33pm

      For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
      15. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
      16. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:05pm

    Isreal “occupies” Jerusalem? Wow.

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  • 1TrueOne55
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:04pm

    They should go back to the 1948 UN Resolution that actually created two states and work from there. But we all know that the Arab countries in the region don’t want a Jewish state in the neighbourhood.

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  • tckid17
    Posted on August 14, 2011 at 12:04pm

    I stand with Israel.

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