Arab League seeks UN recognition of Palestine

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Source: Al Jazeera and agencies

The Arab League has said it backs seeking UN recognition for a Palestinian state, as Qatar proposed at a meeting that the Middle East peace process be suspended until Israel was "ready" for talks.

At a meeting of an Arab monitoring committee chaired by Qatar, the Arab League said in a statement it "supports the appeal to the UN asking that Palestine, within the 1967 borders, becomes a full-fledged state" of the international organisation.

The Arab League's statement on Saturday came soon after Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, reiterated his determination to seek the recognition at the world diplomatic body unless Israel begins negotiations on "substantial basis".

Qatar proposed at the meeting that the Middle East peace process should not be resumed until Israel was "ready," Al Jazeera has reported.



Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/2011528202911144389.html

[trud]

1. UN possible recognition and Egypt opening the border, all good news

No tyranny lasts forever, even though it seems to. I only wish Edward Said were alive to see this happening.

[xchrom]

2. Recommend

[PDJane]

3. UN Can't recognize Palestine

Without the acquiescence of the U.S.. That is why the situation has continued for so long.

[jaysunb]

4. Wrong

:evilfrown:

[PDJane]

5. The U.S. has veto power.

[azurnoir]

6. That's what I was told too, but there is talk of invoking UN Resolution 377

http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/ha/ufp/ufp.html

[jaysunb]

7. Correct...

and Obama is attempting to bail their ass out by trying to get them back to the peace process in order to head off that outcome.

[classysassy]

8. How

can our country continue to defend an unjust society and claim to be a democracy,hypocrites or fools?.Our position is untenable and we the citizens of this nation need to rid our selves of every politician that continue that insane policy.

[Violet_Crumble]

9. The US can't block Palestine being recognised as a sovereign state...

What it can block is Palestine becoming a full member of the UN. I'd hope that at some point before that vote, there'd be people bright enough in the US administration to realise blocking the membership of Palestine is showing the world how entirely two-faced and hypocritical the US is when it claims it wants to see two independent and viable states exist side-by-side...

[dipsydoodle]

10. K & R

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