The Palestinian Authority representative to Britain has declared that a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is unrealistic and that the goal should be “one state” which subsumes the Jewish State. Manuel Hassassian also indicated that forces hostile to Israel would be able to leverage declining U.S. support for Jerusalem –...

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Citing ideological and financial issues, both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have rejected U.N. requests to take in approximately 150,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria. Hamas’s Gaza head, Ismail Haniyeh, reportedly told UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, that taking in refugees would be used by Israel against Palestinians’...

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has reiterated the Palestinian Authority’s intention to wage an international diplomatic campaign against Israel, which would leverage the Palestinians’ upgraded status at the United Nations to sue Israel in the International Criminal Court. The statements come as Abbas’s Fatah faction, which controls the West Bank, has...

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Palestinian Authority officials are now threatening to wage a campaign of international legal warfare against Israel, leveraging the upgraded status they secured via a diplomatic gambit at the United Nations last week. PA officials are raising the possibility that they will sue Israel over West Bank construction in the International...

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Fears that the Palestinian Authority will use its upgraded status in the United Nations to wage diplomatic warfare against Israel were heightened today by reports that the PA may sue Israel in the International Criminal Court over settlement construction. The news is in line with the pronouncements of Palestinian officials...

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U.S. lawmakers are preparing responses to last week’s U.N. diplomatic gambit by the Palestinian Authority, which saw the organization defy President Obama and undermine U.S. diplomacy by unilaterally seeking a declaration of non-member statehood via the U.N. and outside of bilateral negotiations with Israel. The Senate is preparing legislation that...

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U.S. Officials: Resolution Endangers “Prospects of a Durable Peace” U.S. officials are slamming a vote by the United Nations General Assembly to upgrade the Palestinian status at the United Nations to that of a non-member observer state. U.S. Secretary of State Clinton criticized the resolution – which passed with 138 votes in...

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West Bank: Media and political analysis of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s diplomatic gambit to achieve statehood via a United Nations declaration, rather than through negotiations with Israel, is increasingly revolving around the diplomatic consequences of Abbas’s open “defiance” of U.S. President Obama. The language, which was used yesterday by Reuters...

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On a phone call with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, U.S. President Barack Obama reiterated his opposition to a planned diplomatic gambit by the Palestinian leader, under which the Palestinians would secure non-member statehood at the United Nations. What journalists are labeling Abbas’s open ‘defiance’ of Obama’s explicit appeals may...

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At the end of a week which saw Palestinian Authority officials repeatedly emphasizing their commitment to pursuing a declaration of non-member statehood in the United Nations – over and against the objections of American, European, and Israeli diplomats – high-ranking Palestinian officials seemed to confirm some of the most pointed Western suspicions...

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