'US firmly opposed to PA seeking UN statehood declaration'

[nalnn]

Source: JPost

The US is firmly opposed to Palestinians pursuing a unilateral declaration of statehood through the UN, the top White House Middle East advisor said Monday.

“We have consistently made it clear that the way to produce a Palestinian state is through negotiations, not through unilateral declarations, not through going to the UN,” Dennis Ross told the Anti-Defamation League’s annual leadership conference. “Our position on that has been consistent in opposition.”

As expectations increase that the Palestinians will seek a UN resolution on the issue this September, Ross disparaged the idea as unhelpful not only to the overall diplomatic environment, but to advancing the Palestinians’ own goals.

“This doesn’t make it more likely that there’ll be a Palestinian state,” he said.

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=215134

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I did not see that coming.

[RedCloud]

1. Man, I thought Pennsylvania was bolting from the union.

[SoCalNative]

5. LOL that was my first thought too

when I saw the headline

[charlie and algernon]

6. LOL, glad I'm not the only one

My first thought was "what the fuck is Corbett doing now?"

[rpannier]

18. Another one here nt

[iemitsu]

2. the US should go jump off a cliff.

how dare we attempt to stop this recognition?

[Drale]

3. I seems to me that they enjoy fighting

because if they didn't they would split the country in half, say this side is ours that side is yours and be done with it. I know that would never work but sometimes the simplest things need to be tried.

[RZM]

8. In the end something simliar will have to happen

West Bank and Gaza as Palestine, with Israeli settlers in the former getting the boot.

That seems the 'least bad option.'

[nalnn]

10. Don't flame this please

THis is honest ignorance on my part. I was not aware that there were settlers in Gaza. I thought they were only in the WB. What are the settlements named if you know them?

[RZM]

11. I don't think there are. I believe they were withdrawn a few years ago

I worded my post wrongly the first time and edited it. I meant the West Bank, which has a large settler population.

[nalnn]

12. Ahhh Ok

Thanks

[nalnn]

13. They do enjoy fighting

Or, at least, some of the hard-core ones do. This goes back to Abraham, Issac and Ishmael and the jealousy, hatred and distrust that goes with that story.

Strange and foreign as it may sound to some of us, that's what they think about.

[damntexdem]

4. Yeah, you let these unilateral declarations, next you'll get something starting like this:

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

[plumbob]

14. Hey, be careful with that radical stuff!

My god, next you'll be against letting Rick Perry force women into having an ultrasound, a lecture, and a 48 hour wait before a fully grown woman can get an abortion, even for rape!

[hack89]

16. The next step was to then fight a war that you actually won.

that is the step the Palestinians seem to have a problem with.

[rpannier]

19. Sounds like something Marx wrote

Mao? Lenin?

:sarcasm:

[Malikshah]

7. Dennis Ross; the fox in the henhouse here, is being the ultimate in

"unhelpful"

May he go pound sand.

[xxqqqzme]

9. in year 63, how are those negotiations

going?

[no limit]

15. We don't listen to the UN unless the UN wants to bomb the shit out of something

then it's a mandate.

[rpannier]

17. self delete

[ThomCat]

20. The US want's Palestinians to keep Negotiating?

Then shouldn't the US start helping with those negotiations? Shouldn't Israel actually be willing to negotiate in good faith, make some concessions, admit some responsibility for anything? Never happen!