by Carlos Latuff

Let us assume the PA will be able to convince other countries to accept this idea and it is passed by some miracle in the UN, what then? Will the PA consider the Israelis occupiers because they sure don’t now since they collaborate with them economically and security wise to say the least. Do they expect someone will fight for them to get the land back? Who will force the settlers out, them? Will they call an outright resistance? The Israelis are already an occupation and the settlements in theory are regarded illegal by other countries so start resisting now.

How did these people come to be in the PA? They don’t have one bit of sense or logical viewpoint always looking out for their personal interests and not that of the Palestinians. Obviously, the Israelis will not accept this and they already annexed the lands through the settlements and the wall. I think the PA is just playing a role in an already put plan by the Israelis and the US. When the Israelis take everything and expel yet again the Palestinians they will say it was a response to what the PA did then the PA tells the Palestinians, we did what we could but the Israelis are strong and it is over.

What they don’t know is not all people are stupid as them and they do take the initiative and have plans for the Israelis and their ilks, the resistance in its various parts across the region is in the frontline because nothing other than it worked in returning lands and rights.

Palestinians Say They Will Ask UN to Recognize State

Al Manar

15/11/2009 The Palestinians intend to ask the UN Security Council to recognize their independence, a senior official said on Sunday amid mounting frustration with the stalled “peace” process.

“We have reached a decision… to go to the UN Security Council to ask for recognition of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and with June 1967 borders,” chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP.

“We’re going to seek support from EU countries and Russia and other countries” for the measure, he said.
Erakat’s comments came amid growing frustration among the Palestinians with so-far ineffective US efforts to re-launch peace negotiations with Israel that were suspended during the Gaza Strip war at the turn of the year.

They mark the latest in a series of options that the Palestinians have warned they could take if the Middle East peace process remained stalled.

Others include unilaterally declaring independence, asking the UN to determine final borders of their promised state, dissolving the Palestinian Authority and seeking equal rights within Israel.

“Israel” Worried as Support for Unilateral Declaration of Palestinian State Grows

Al Manar

15/11/2009 Israeli Cabinet ministers convened Sunday morning for their weekly meeting amid stalemate in Israeli-Palestinian talks and a growing disposition to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, “Israel is strong and deterring, and it has a strategic interest in reaching an agreement through negotiations. We must always look at the alternatives – and without an agreement, there is a change that support of the Palestinian unilateral declaration may grow, and there will be a rising demand for the establishment of a bi-national state.”

These two threats, Barak said, “Will not be realized tomorrow morning, but we must not delude ourselves about their seriousness. At the root of the weakening of international support of Israel, and things like the Goldstone Report, lies that fact that Israel has been ruling another people for 42 years. We must end this.

Israel has security interests, nothing needs to be done at any price, but we must not get confused, and it is our duty to reach an agreement with the Palestinian people.”

For his part, minister Eli Yishai said, “We are making a mountain out of a molehill, There is no need to be concerned over the declaration of a Palestinian state be there is an Israeli option for a response. We must take action on the diplomatic front.”

Following reports of Palestinian plan to unilaterally declare statehood, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly plans to announce Israel rejects this notion and stress that solution lies in negotiations.

PA chief Mahmoud Abbas has said that 18 years of negotiations with the Israelis have failed to give any advance to the so called peace process. According to analysts, Netanyahu is at ease with the notion of continuing negotiations so long that they continue, like the past 18 years, to be fruitless ….

“The unilateral Palestinian move is a hostile initiative. I think it is brazen,” Minsiter Uzi Landau said. “The initiative is meant to torpedo any chance for negotiations. It must be made clear that any unilateral declaration on their part that is meant to deteriorate the chances for negotiations needs to be accompanied from our side with annexation of territories in Judea and Samaria.”

Vice Premier Silvan Shalom told Ynet, “I think the Palestinians need to know that unilateral moves will not yield the results they hope for. Every action will receive a appropriate Israeli response.”