Posted on 09/21/2011 8:28:42 AM PDT by Former Fetus
If the Palestinian Authority genuinely desired international recognition as a sovereign state, Mahmoud Abbas wouldn't have come to New York to seek membership in the UN General Assembly this week. There would have been no need to, for Palestine would have long since taken its seat in the United Nations.
Were Palestinian statehood Abbas's real goal, after all, he could have delivered it to his people three years ago. In 2008, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert proposed the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state on territory equal (after land swaps) to 100 percent of the West Bank and Gaza, with free passage between the two plus a capital in the Arab section of Jerusalem. Yet Abbas turned down the Israeli offer. And he has refused ever since even to engage in negotiations.
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It is this grotesque and bloody culture that Palestinian leaders want the UN to affirm as worthy of statehood. The wonder is not they make the request, but that anyone thinks it should be granted.
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I wouldn’t put it past Obama to push for it plus his evil puppet master Soros.
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They have a state already: Jordan.
That’s true. Many people don’t realize that Jordan was “carved out” from the Palestinian Mandate to make a home for the Arabs in Palestine. Of course, recognizing this would imply recognizing that the land West of the Jordan River was going to be the home of the Jews...
BINGO!
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