Palestine
Palestinians celebrate UN statehood bid The Washington Post 09/25/2011 | Barack Obama: Palestinians deserve a state but must achieve it with IsraelAlex Spillius Telegraph 09/23/2011 |
 Singing, dancing and waving flags, thousands gathered here Friday night in a jubilant street party to watch Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announce his request for admission of a Palestinian state to the United Nations. Following the U.N. proceedings on an outdoor screen, the throng that filled a downtown square erupted as Abbas told the General Assembly that he had applied for full membership of a Palestinian state. |  Barack Obama pressed the Palestinians and Israelis to resume peace talks as he made a last-ditch attempt to avert a diplomatic crisis over the Palestinian Authority’s bid for full membership of the United Nations. |
Palestine Logo Suggests Elimination of Israel Weekly Standard 09/23/2011 | Israel Floats ‘Interim Solution’ Proposal At UN To Stem Palestinian Statehood Tension CBS New York 09/21/2011 |
 The logo of “the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations” – on their website and on top of their official statements at the U.N. – shows the Palestinian Authority’s claim to a Palestine that stretches throughout the entire historical entity of the former Palestine mandate. |  There were frantic efforts at the United Nations on Tuesday to avoid a Friday face-off over Palestinian statehood. With the clock ticking toward a showdown, Israel floated the possibility of an “interim solution” to allow the Palestinians to establish a state within existing borders in Gaza and the West Bank and deal with all the tough stuff later, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer. |
In UN week, Saudi says to ease Palestinian crisisTom Perry Reuters 09/20/2011 | |
 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is backing the push for Palestinian statehood in a letter released Tuesday, saying the Palestinian people have a right to be recognized as a nation. |  Saudi Arabia will pay $200 million to the Palestinian Authority, the official Palestinian news agency said on Monday, funds that will ease a financial crisis faced by the authority as it prepares to apply for full U.N. membership this week. |
New York meetings open to avert Palestinian crisisArshad Mohammed and Patrick Worsnip Reuters 09/19/2011 | Holy Land clerics bless Palestinian UN bid Breitbart.com 09/19/2011 |
 A last-ditch international push began in New York on Sunday to try to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and avert a crisis over Palestinian statehood at the United Nations. |  Priests in the Holy Land used their sermons on Sunday to give their blessing to the Palestinians' bid for United Nations membership. The retired Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, the first Palestinian to hold the post since the Crusades, was to preach in the Roman Catholic church in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. |
Israel warns of 'harsh' consequences of Palestinian UN bid Telegraph 09/15/2011 | Palestinians Pressured to Seek General Assembly Vote on StatehoodDAVID D. KIRKPATRICK The New York Times 09/14/2011 |
 Hardline Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned on Wednesday there would be "harsh and grave consequences" if the Palestinians persist with their plan to seek UN membership as a state. |  A top negotiator for the Palestinian Authority said Tuesday night that its leadership was weighing the strong urging of both the Arab states and the Europeans to turn to the General Assembly of the United Nations — and not its Security Council — in a bid to win international recognition as a state. |
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