The head of the Palestinian Authority, Abu Mazen, will leave for New York at the end of next month, and will deliver a speech before the United Nations General Assembly. According to Palestinian sources, in his speech, he will demand that the international community upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority from the status of an observer state to the status of a full member of the United Nations. M.
In Ramallah, they decided to renew the diplomatic effort on this issue, a decision that hurt even more after the visit of American President Joe Biden to Bethlehem.
The request to recognize the Palestinian Authority as a state with full membership in the United Nations came up in talks and meetings held by Abu Mazen and his people recently with leaders and leaders of public opinion, and the talks are expected to enter high gear in the coming month. This matter was placed on the agenda and was also discussed in the meetings of the head of the Palestinian Authority with American President Biden in Bethlehem, and French President Macron in Paris.
Palestinian officials told "Israel Today" that this is not necessarily a tactical move designed to put pressure on Israel to return to the negotiating table, and that the goal is to keep the two-state solution on the agenda, and prevent the idea of establishing a Palestinian state from fading.
"This is apartheid", the billboard posted in Bethlehem and Ramallah, photo: Dovrot B'Tselem
"This is an issue that we attach utmost importance to now. It is a commitment of the world to us and especially of the countries that believe in the two-state solution. We are making great efforts to turn Palestine into a society full of unity, and we are working directly with each and every country in the UN Security Council.
If we do not succeed there, we will go to the General Assembly of the Nation," Ahmed Adich, political advisor to the Palestinian Foreign Minister, told "Israel Today"
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Time is not working in our favor.
The settlements continue to expand, Israel makes agreements and normalization moves with countries in the region as if the Palestinian issue does not exist, and continues to destroy the chances of establishing a state.
We think that the recognition of Palestine as a full member state will help peace and can push forward the two-state solution," Adich said.
The PA tried to promote diplomatic steps in this direction about a decade ago, but to no avail.
The push for the renewed drive of the move follows the realization in Ramallah that the American administration is not ready to present a political initiative for peace yet.
The effort to convince the American President's staff and the President himself of the need to lay down a plan to advance the political process came to naught, which led the leadership in Ramallah to look for other alternatives, and detours that would help advance a political horizon.
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