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Reports say Palestine has gained the favor of at least 140 countries in a run for a statehood.
Palestine will make its bid at the 66th UN General Assembly, which opens later this month.
Riad Mansour, Palestinian Ambassador to the UN: “There will be huge enthusiasm in the General Assembly...People with excitement, they cannot wait to see Palestine as a new member of the UN.”
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the UN bid is viewed as a desperate move to secure a quote- “viable independent and contiguous state.” The bid would...
“1. Increase the international diplomatic and legal status of the Palestinians; 2. Draw the spotlight back on the Palestinian predicament and Israel's continued occupation and settlement of the West Bank and East Jerusalem; 3. Place international pressure on Israel.”
However, The New York Times says for Palestine, there’s little to celebrate. It will face a veto by a big shareholder in the UN --- the United States.
The Times reports-- the U.S. State Department believes...
“(The bid) would destabilize the region and undermine peace efforts. ...The change would pave the way for the Palestinians to join dozens of United Nations bodies and conventions, and it could strengthen their ability to pursue cases against Israel at the International Criminal Court.”
The Economist says that the bid is quote- “a bad bill for everyone” because fit may spur terrorist attacks.
“Radical splinter groups or Hamas itself could always decide their own interests are best served by provoking a blowup. Recent terror attacks in southern Israel and subsequent rounds of Israeli retaliatory raids and shelling from Gaza are probably related to Hamas's need to assert itself in the run-up to the statehood bid.”
According to Iran’s PressTV, the Palestinian bid is encountering huge threats from Israel.
“Israel says it’s an illusion to think that Palestine can do all this alone, from tax collection to combating Hamas... Regardless of these threats, Palestine vows to continue their request for state recognition.”
But what about the people?
Three Palestinians tell Al Jazeera...
“I don’t think anything will change. This will put pressure on Palestinian people.”
“I am not really hopeful.”
“Nothing will happen. People will live in the same way.”
No matter what would be the outcome of the bid, the Guardian says “the truth is that the life of the ordinary Palestinian on the ground in Ramallah, Nablus, Bethlehem or, indeed, Gaza City, will change not a jot.”
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