In comments following news articles and op eds these days (for example, here), the denial that there even exists a Palestinian people at all grows more prevalent. Palestinians continue to be squashed under foot with similar contempt in the Occupied Territories by...
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The Futile Undertaking of Palestinian Statehood | by Esam Al-Amin
Today, September 23, Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas submits, to the UN the application for Palestinian statehood for the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967. What are the implications of this effort? Does it serve the Palestinian...
Why Kosovo But Not Palestine? | by Zoltan Grossman
In his September 21 speech to the United Nations, President Obama announced that he would veto U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state, because its independence was not a result of a negotiated settlement with Israel. He said that “peace depends upon compromise among...
The UN is part of Palestine’s problem | by Frank Barat
At the United Nations building in New York City on Friday, 23 September 2011, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) addresses the General Assembly in his bid to obtain full recognition of...
New Hopes, Looming Threats | EPW Editorial
The extreme Right in Israel and the United States are standing in the way of justice to the Palestinians.The new spirit of assertion by the hitherto supine al-Fatah leadership of Palestine and the degree of support it has received from governments across the world...
Salvaging September: Palestinian Statehood Initiative | by Jeff Halper
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) has been one of the leading critical Israeli peace and human rights organizations struggling for Palestinian rights during its more than 14 years of existence. ICAHD activists resist the demolition of Palestinian...
SACP Statement on Palestine’s official request for statehood
The President of the Palestinian National Authority, Comrade Mahmoud Abbas will address the UN General Assembly and submit an official request for Palestinian statehood to the UN Security Council making clear the popular Palestinian yearning for freedom that would...
COSATU Backs Palestinian Right to Self Determination
The Palestinian statehood bid is indeed a form of diplomatic resistance in a larger struggle. COSATU backs the Palestinian right to self determination and efforts to reach a viable state for, by and of all the people of Palestine - including the majority who find...
Realities and perils of the Palestinian ‘statehood’ bid | by AMEC
The Palestinian bid for ‘statehood’ has become one of the key items on the agenda of the general debate of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s sixty-sixth session – to begin on 21 September 2011. The request being tabled by the Palestinian Liberation...



