"Palestinians may ease demands on Israel" June 24, 2011|Associated Press
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians are ready to drop their demand for a freeze on Israeli settlement construction to get peace talks back on track, a top official told the Associated Press yesterday.
The softened position reflects the Palestinians’ growing realization that their alternative strategies to talks — reconciling with the Hamas militant group and seeking unilateral recognition at the United Nations — are both in trouble....
I don't see how. General Assembly is going to vote the thing through, and reconciliation is happening.
Do you know how sick I am of wishful psyop prop posing as news?
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That does explain the "journalistic style" of AmeriKa's jewspapers.
Update: Palestinians officially decide to seek UN recognition for statehood in September
Really, what is with the lying?
"In the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday, the Palestinian leadership endorsed an appeal to the United Nations General Assembly in September to recognize a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. The decision did not include operative steps.
Recently some Palestinian officials have expressed doubts about the initiative, which comes in place of peace talks with Israel.
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"Israel tells media to stay off flotilla; Vows to expel foreign journalists" by Mark Lavie, Associated Press / June 27, 2011
JERUSALEM —In a separate development, the West Bank Palestinian leadership formally decided to press ahead with efforts in September to win UN recognition of a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and east Jerusalem, in what could be a blow to efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
The idea of asking the General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian state based on the cease-fire lines before the 1967 Mideast War is a reflection of Palestinian frustration with the stalemated talks....
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"Palestinians seek support for UN action" by Mohammed Daraghmeh, Associated Press / June 28, 2011
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian delegations will make the rounds of nearly a dozen countries to try to build support for their bid to have the United Nations recognize a Palestinian state, senior officials said yesterday.
Palestinian officials will visit Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and several other countries that have not yet endorsed the Palestinian plan for recognition, said Hana Amireh, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s decision-making Executive Committee.
Riad Malki, the Palestinian foreign minister, said all Palestinian ambassadors would meet in Madrid in early July to discuss how to approach all-important European Union member states, whose support would be crucial to giving the plan diplomatic heft....
UN General Assembly recognition of a Palestinian state would carry diplomatic weight but no legal clout. Only the UN Security Council can add a nation to the world body, and the United States has signaled it would veto such a resolution. Israel, too, opposes the unilateral campaign.
The Palestinians hope to win the support of a majority in the 192-member General Assembly at the United Nations....
When you wish upon a star.... sigh.
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