Ynetnews | Palestinian envoy predicts historic UN vote recognizing the state of Palestine Fox News UNITED NATIONS – The Palestinians predicted a historic U.N. vote recognizing their statehood this week, praising important new support from France on Tuesday and likely backing from other European nations seen as critical to enhancing their ... UN to vote Thursday on raising Palestinian status Palestine's future lies in negotiations with Israel, not UN How lonely must it be to be Mahmoud Abbas? |
AFP | Palestine's UN bid 'historic moment': envoy China Daily Riyad Mansour, the permanent observer of Palestine to the United Nations, said on Tuesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will submit the Palestinian bid for a non-member state status to the UN General Assembly on Thursday as planned. Palestinian resolution for upgraded UN status filed France to back Palestine on UN push for observer status France to back Palestinian bid for enhanced UN status |
Brisbane Times | Gillard rolled on Palestine Brisbane Times Daniel Flitton speaks with Palestinian ambassador Izzat Salah Abdulhadi about Labor's decision to abstain in a UN vote on Palestinian membership. Autoplay OnOff; Video feedback; Video settings. JULIA Gillard has been forced to abandon her personal ... Labor MP says Palestine stance 'balanced' Gillard under Jewish pressure over Palestine Bipartisanship on Israel 'shattered' |
Bignews Portugal | Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's grave exhumed after poisoning rumors Fox News Yasser Arafat's political heirs on Tuesday opened his grave and foreign experts took samples of the iconic Palestinian leader's remains as part of a long-shot attempt -- eight years after his mysterious death -- to determine whether he was poisoned ... Palestine to petition if Arafat poisoned Did Israel kill Yasser Arafat with Polonium-210? The questions around the ... Arafat's Body Exhumed in Palestine to See Whether He Was Poisoned |
Haaretz | Israeli Terror: The “Final Solution” to the Palestine Question Center for Research on Globalization For the past forty-five years the state of Israel has been dispossessing millions of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories, confiscating their lands, destroying homes, bulldozing orchards and setting-up 'Jews-only' colonial settlements ... Terra Incognita: Coexistence of the blind Israel-Palestine conflict discussed Ambivalence of Muslim Solidarity |
Palestine's UN membership bid a mistake, says US Hindu Business Line The US has termed as a “mistake” the Palestinian bid to become a non-member observer state at the UN — a move supported by countries such as India, Brazil and South Africa — warning it would derail the West Asia peace process and vowing to oppose it. |
Palestine's ill-timed UN bid The Australian (blog) Yesterday, when faced with a backbench revolt over her decision to have Australia vote against a UN motion to upgrade the Palestinian Authority's status to observer level, Julia Gillard failed to secure the support of her own party. Australia will now ... |
PBS | Council on Foreign Relations Backgrounder: Palestinian Statehood PBS The decision to seek non-member state status for Palestine -- an elevation from its standing as a permanent observer "entity" -- follows a failed bid to gain full U.N. membership in 2011. Palestine was unable to garner enough support in the U.N ... |
Business Insider | Palestine Thinks Israel Assassinated Arafat And Is Now Testing His Corpse To ... Business Insider The process was carried out in secrecy, with Arafat's grave carefully shielded from the public eye and media kept far away, but Palestinian sources confirmed samples had been taken from the remains on Tuesday morning. "At 5:00 am (0300 GMT), experts ... |
Haaretz | Israel-US effort to soften wording of Palestinian UN bid has failed, official says Haaretz American-Israeli efforts to soften the wording of the proposed United Nations General Assembly resolution regarding the recognition of a Palestinian state has failed, an Israeli official said on Tuesday. Haaretz has learned that the push did not ... |