Obama: Palestinians should avoid seeking UN recognition for statehood

[Jefferson23]

* All this concerted effort to prevent something that is categorized as a meaningless empty gesture, hmm.

U.S. president meets German Chancellor Merkel, who says 'unilateral measures are not helping at all' to bring about a two-state solution.
By Reuters and Haaretz Service



U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed that any Palestinian effort to seek UN recognition for statehood should be avoided.

Obama, who was reiterating his own position on the issue, was speaking at a news conference after White House talks with Merkel.

Obama has said in the past that a unilateral UN recognition of an independent Palestinian state would be a meaningless empty gesture.

During Tuesday's news conference, Merkel stressed that "unilateral measures are not helping at all" to bring about a two-state solution.

Obama has repeatedly called on the Palestinians to enter negotiations with Israel and not appeal to the UN for statehood, calling the move a mistake.

in full:http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/obama-palestinians-should-avoid-seeking-un-recognition-for-statehood-1.366569

[Alamuti Lotus]

1. please go to the back of the bus, and learn to like it

unfortunate and troubling, considering his background, but certainly not out of character in performance lately.

[Jefferson23]

3. So much to do about something that is suppose to be a meaningless

empty gesture. You'd think they'd let it go already..since it's so meaningless.

[Alamuti Lotus]

6. it's meaningless like the wretched Goldstone business, meaningless like the flotillas of fear, etc..

it's all so 'meaningless and empty' that the hasbarophists and their satellites must devote enormous amounts of energy denouncing it all.

[tootrueleft]

2. A sure sign that statehood might actually happen via the UN.

[azurnoir]

4. Interesting that Obama would say anything over a meanless gesture while Netanyahu

did his best in his speech to Congress to leave the Palestinians little choice, kind of makes me wonder what 'games' are going on here

[Alamuti Lotus]

5. games like panic, fear, cluelessness, etc

US/Israel really thought they had things under wraps, but then their mountains of tyranny began to blow away like cotton, to borrow a wonderful phrase I read lately. It's been nothing but sheer vertigo for those goons since "Springtime" (a really ghastly phrase coined by the NYT type of twit, actually) began, and nonsense like what you mention is just an expression of that growing feeling of power slipping away. That'll just get worse as more wool flies.

[King_David]

7. Is Obama plaing games here or when je talks of the 67 borders ?

[Never Stop Dancin]

8. don't worry

Obama just says that stuff for the world. He's really with Bibi all the way.