Abbas: Palestinians to seek full UN membership
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas clarifies that they are seeking to delegitimize the occupation, not Israel, by taking the UN route for Palestinian statehood.
By Haaretz
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday that the Palestinians plan to approach the United Nations Security Council for full recognition, clarifying that they are seeking to delegitimize the occupation, not Israel, by taking the UN route for Palestinian statehood.
He stressed that Israel is a legitimate state, but that by continuing to build in the settlements and rejecting the internationally recognized borders of a future Palestinian state, they are engaging in illegitimate activity.
Abbas Claims 1947 Borders for PA state
Virtual Jerusalem
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Abbas stressed that Israel’s “occupation” will not will not end the next day and much more remains to be done because the 1967 lines do not define the true borders – any more than the roadblocks and the settlements. The real Palestinian borders were laid down in 1947 down by the UN. All other areas [meaning large parts of the state of Israel] are “occupied territory” which the Palestinians intend to claim.
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Hamas announced that the UN bid is empty of content, claiming they could not support it because it de facto recognizes the State of Israel along the 1967 borders.
Hamas official Yusef Rizka, political advisor to Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh, criticized Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, claiming the Palestinian leader’s speech “left some issues undefined and unclear on a legal level.”
Rizka said he is not sure how Abbas can say the Palestinian plan will not affect the issue of refugees and the legitimacy of the Palestine Liberation Organization, while British legal experts made it clear that this bid can affect them both.
Never mind about the 1947 lines, lets go back to the 1920 borders agreed upon by the League of Nations giving Israel the WHOLE of Trans-Jordan.
In other words, Abu Mamzer’s translation of “illegitimate” is simply unpopular.
Yet building in the “settlements” is entirely LEGAL.
And in a fallen world the only true legitimacy IS the law
— that’s why we order our lives around it. [Du-uh!]
The Palestinian Arabs are at loggerheads about statehood. That is why they will never establish one.
Unity!
It’s good to have Arabs such as HAMAS, rallying to Israel’s side like this — even if they intend the opposite. As for the “refugee” situation, the vast majority of those “refugees” have never set foot in Israel. The issue is a total farce, a way for the Arabs to get money from the Europeans and Americans.