Palestinians warn Obama not to stand in way of statehood

[joi]

Palestinians warn Obama not to stand in way of statehood

The Palestinian Authority knows all the right buttons to push with Washington. The Palestinian leadership is fully aware of the value US President Barack Obama (like his predecessors) puts on overseeing an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, and has regularly wielding that weakness like a diplomatic bludgeon against the White House.

On Saturday, the Palestinians were at it again, warning the Obama Administration that vetoing their UN Security Council bid for statehood would "destroy" the two-state solution to the conflict.

"Anyone who supports the two-state solution should back the Palestinian effort [at the UN]," insisted chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat.

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http://www.israeltoday.co.il/tabid/178/nid/22949/language/en-US/Default.aspx

They 'warn' us not to stand in their way! I don't believe I have even heard of us being warned in thie manner before.

With this upcoming vote and the nut job coming to NY, there is much to pray about. We need our two men freed from Iran,

but only under God's conditions.

Praying for the peace of Jerusalem.

[other one]

The two state solution has been dead since 1948 when they tried to destroy Israel..... They have not stopped. We'll see how Obama handles it, but woe to us if he screws this up.

[OldShep]

With all the upheaval going on in the World at this time, I think that the UN's Security Council should "table the idea" or "simply look into the matter for a few weeks or months". The focus of the UN right now I think should be on the way we are {reacting} to this World Wide Money Issue.

JMO: Dennis

Edited September 19, 2011 by OldShep

[Matthitjah]

This is what happens when you cowtow and even bow to foreign leaders. When you project weakness in both policy and action bullies will take full advantage of it.

[OneLight]

I am wondering what will happen if the UN does accept the two state idea, but Israel refuses it. The Palestinians will no doubt start an uproar, causing affections to those in Israel. How bad of a war will this start?

[Matthitjah]

I don't think Obama will not veto it, he will. He's seen the ramifications of the Jewish vote that he's lost just recently in New York. Although, stranger things are happening.

There could be a War and it looks like Turkey and Syria are brewing for a fight to head off domestic troubles. Meanwhile, Egypt has made herself and enemy of God as well.

[MorningGlory]

This administration, like all the administrations going back to Truman, doesn't give a flying fig about Palestinian statehood. The American people don't care about this issue either. All of the 'peace talks' in the past 60 or so years have been recurrent dog and pony shows and a colossal waste of time. There will be no peace for Israel until the Lord returns.

[amor]

This is what happens when you cowtow and even bow to foreign leaders. When you project weakness in both policy and action bullies will take full advantage of it.

Tautology alert! To kowtow means to bow, albeit in a very exaggerated bow which involves kneeling down and touching he ground with your forehead.

As to the main topic the Palestinian authority doesn't have the clout to bully Obama. However much personal amenity there is between them, Bibi will be the foreign leader he'll listen to on this.

I, of course, hope I'm wrong on this, even though I don't think recognition by the UN is much more than a propaganda stunt. All those involved, even Netanayahu, know that only solution to this problem is a negotiated two (viable) states agreement.

[MorningGlory]

This is what happens when you cowtow and even bow to foreign leaders. When you project weakness in both policy and action bullies will take full advantage of it.

Tautology alert! To kowtow means to bow, albeit in a very exaggerated bow which involves kneeling down and touching he ground with your forehead.

As to the main topic the Palestinian authority doesn't have the clout to bully Obama. However much personal amenity there is between them, Bibi will be the foreign leader he'll listen to on this.

I, of course, hope I'm wrong on this, even though I don't think recognition by the UN is much more than a propaganda stunt. All those involved, even Netanayahu, know that only solution to this problem is a negotiated two (viable) states agreement.

Won't happen.....ever. The solution would be to pack up the alleged Palestinians and dump them in Jordan and Syria where they belong, then to raze the territories and rebuild that area for Jewish settlers. Why the Israelis suffer squatters on their land baffles me.

[Guest shiloh357]

All those involved, even Netanayahu, know that only solution to this problem is a negotiated two (viable) states agreement.

Which the Arab world has continually sabotaged at every turn. The ONLY reason that their has never been a two-state solution is intransigence of the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world. The Arab world rejected the two-state solutions from 1936, 1948, and 2000, all of which the Zionists and the nation of Israel agreed to.

A two-state solution is a child's fantasy so long as the Palestinains are ruled by terrorist thugs like Fatah and Hamas. Israel supports a two-state solution, but not within the current climate where the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world continue to foment a state of belligerence with the gov't and people of Israel.