Surprise: US asks 'Palestinians' to delay UN bid until...
The United States has asked the 'Palestinian Authority' to delay their renewed bid for 'statehood' until... you guessed it... after the US elections. The 'Palestinians' are thinking about it."There are pressures from the United States and some Arab parties to delay the voting until after the United States presidential elections, due in November," PLO Executive Committee member Saleh Raafat told Voice of Palestine radio.What could go wrong?
On Saturday, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said president Mahmud Abbas would on September 27 make a fresh request to upgrade the Palestinians' UN status from that of an observer entity to a non-member state.
The request is to be made exactly a year after Abbas tried to obtain full member status. Despite his high-profile effort, the request was never put to a vote in the UN Security Council, where the United States had pledged to veto it.
"The Palestinian people have no option but to resort to popular resistance and turn to international agencies, particularly the United Nations Security Council and the UNGA, to apply for non-state membership," Raafat told the radio station.
And he insisted the Palestinian leadership should press ahead with the bid next month, despite the pressures from the US and opposing Arab states.
"We should reject this demand and insist on heading to the UN in September," he said.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Campaign 2012, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Security Council
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