U.S. Says Will Veto Palestinian State Bid at U.N.
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The United States said Thursday it will veto a bid for U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state if it comes to a vote before the U.N. Security Council.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said U.S. opposition to such a move by the Palestinians "should not come as a shock."
"So yes, if something comes to a vote in the U.N. Security Council, the U.S. will veto," she said.
In Ramallah, the Palestinian leadership confirmed on Thursday that it intends to make a formal request that the United Nations accept the state of Palestine as a member.
Nuland said it was still uncertain whether the Palestinian request would come to a vote and said the United States believes "the best route forward is to come back to the negotiating table."
U.S. State Department officials are to meet on Friday with a Palestinian delegation, the department said separately.
08 September 2011, 21:35
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So the U.S. wants to veto Palestinian statehood and at the same time pretend they are the "honest" broker for "peace negotiations”... anyone else see the irony here? I mean you have to be completely daft not to question the U.S.'s real motivation behind the veto threat!
Well I hope the Palestinian leadership has finally learned that the U.S. foreign policy is strictly dictated by AIPAC and the rest of the pro-Israeli lobby. If anything, it's worse now with Tea Party/Republican controlled Congress.
The "Palestinian Papers" leaked by Al Jazeera a while back finally exposed what we always suspected: these so called negotiations were strictly one sided with Palestinians making all sorts of highly unpopular (bordering on immoral) concessions and getting absolutely nothing in return. All this under the watchful eyes of unsympetheic U.S. diplomats.
I hope the bid will put a final nail on the coffin of the so called “peace negotiations” charade...
08 September 2011, 22:29
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The conversation is a long way further along than Pong says. We all already know that AIPAC etal runs the US. AIPAC etal say as much. Daniel Sokatch of the New Israel Fund was saying on a webcast just now that the Israel street protests are not covered in the US media because US Jews are more concerned with Israel's security than with its democracy
The question is where the de facto US government is going. Does it know? This veto is as Pong implies, a dead end street, a no-win strategy. The current topic is, how do we win the peace?
08 September 2011, 22:36
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The US Has deported US born children from Lebanese parents for years, including the blind support to the State of Israel. Lebanon is unable even to deport Palestinian terrorists or criminals back to Israel where they came from.
08 September 2011, 22:37
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As Nuland said, the US position on this matter is nothing new and she's right. It's about time the arab world as a whole understand this real intentions and motivations of US policy
