Posted on 08/21/2013 9:57:31 AM PDT by Former Fetus
The Palestinians might turn to U.N. bodies in response to Israeli settlement building even before their negotiations with Israel have run their course, a Palestinian spokeswoman said Wednesday, reflecting growing frustration over recent Israeli plans to promote more than 3,000 new settlement homes.
If the U.S. is unable to halt Israeli construction on war-won lands, deemed illegal by most of the international community, the Palestinians may have to seek redress elsewhere, said Hanan Ashrawi, a senior official in the Palestine Liberation Organization.
"We are saying very clearly that if Israel does not stop, then we have to move," Ashrawi said during a tour of Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem where hundreds of new apartments are planned.
Ashrawi said she was expressing the official Palestinian position, though it was not clear if her warning was a sign of frustration or actual intent. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas might be reluctant to disrupt recently relaunched negotiations with such a step, for fear of incurring U.S. anger.
Last year, Abbas won broad-based U.N. General Assembly recognition of a state of Palestine in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in 1967. Israel fears further U.N. recognition of the Palestinians will deepen its international isolation.
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Annex Judea and Samaria NOW and put your trust in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas might be reluctant to disrupt recently relaunched negotiations with such a step, for fear of incurring U.S. anger.
Oh oh, beware the wrath of the Obama!
Kill the bastards, Bibi!
Which means exactly nothing to most Americans.
The "international community" is in no position to dictate, or even suggest, the choices and priorities of free Western societies.
The common thread of that "international community" is graft, corruption, genocide, mass murder, and terminal arrogance. I say let's use that useful Atlantic Ocean to our advantage.
The UN should disappear, we should make sure they relocate to Africa, or the Middle East, where they can disappear, either through violence, or terminal corruption.
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