UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Defying U.S. and Israeli opposition, the Palestinians asked the United Nations on Friday to accept them as a member of around nearly two decades of failed negotiations in the hope that dramatic movement on the stage International revitalize their search for an independent homeland.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was greeted with sustained applause and whistles appreciated by the delegations in the General Assembly Hall stated that his people's hopes and dreams of becoming a full member of the United Nations. Some members of the Israeli delegation, including Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, left the room, and Abbas approached the podium.
In a virulent denunciation of Israel's settlement policy, Abbas said that negotiations with Israel "have no meaning" as long as it continues to build on land the Palestinians claim for this condition. Invoking this would be a nightmare for Israel, was to tell his government could collapse if the construction continues.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was greeted with sustained applause and whistles appreciated by the delegations in the General Assembly Hall stated that his people's hopes and dreams of becoming a full member of the United Nations. Some members of the Israeli delegation, including Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, left the room, and Abbas approached the podium.
In a virulent denunciation of Israel's settlement policy, Abbas said that negotiations with Israel "have no meaning" as long as it continues to build on land the Palestinians claim for this condition. Invoking this would be a nightmare for Israel, was to tell his government could collapse if the construction continues.
"This policy is still a series of successful international effort to save the peace process," said Abbas, who has refused to negotiate until the construction stops. "This settlement policy also threatens to weaken the structure of the Palestinian Authority to stop and even its existence."
For another round of applause, he kept a copy of the formal application for membership and said he had asked Ban Ki-moon to accelerate discussions on its request to the UN to recognize a Palestinian state West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
Shortly after Ban said he had referred the request to the Security Council, where he is expected to sink under the weight of U.S. opposition and a veto possible. Action on the application form can take weeks or months.
Talk to cover any Palestinian culpability stalled talks, deadly violence against Israel, offers peace and despised internal rift that produced a duel between the governments of the West Bank and Gaza. It also disregards the Jewish ties to the Holy Land.
Feeling jubilant Abbas was offset by the exuberant celebration of thousands of Palestinians crowded around screens in the open in city squares across the West Bank on Friday to see their president making his request for historic recognition for a Palestinian state to United Nations.
"I'm with the president," said Muayad Taha, 36, a physician, who brought his two sons, ages 7 and 10, to witness the moment. "After the failure of all other methods (to win independence), we were able to step in despair. This is a good attempt to put the Palestinian cause and the Palestinians on the map. Everyone is here to stand behind the leadership."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has addressed the General Assembly immediately after Abbas said that his country is "ready to make painful compromises."
"I extend my hand to the Palestinian people with whom we seek a just and lasting peace," Netanyahu said that the prolonged applause.
The Palestinians, he added, "must live in a free state of their own, but they should be prepared to compromise" and "begins to take Israel's security concerns seriously."
Netanyahu is opposed to negotiations on the basis of 1967 to return, saying it would reveal the limits of the launching of rockets into Israel, West Bank Heartland.
No doubt the call for Abbas to the United Nations to recognize the independence of Palestine can not make immediate changes on the ground: Israel remains an occupying force in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and still severely restricting access to Gaza, headed by Palestinian Hamas militants.
The strategy has also put the Palestinians in direct confrontation with the United States, which has threatened to veto its application for membership in the Council, reasoning, like Israel, which the State may make direct negotiations between the parties to end the long and bloody conflict.
Also hanging heavy in the air the threat of renewed violence in the Palestinian aspirations frustrated, despite the wishes of Mr Abbas - seen by Israeli security agents as true - to prevent Palestinian violence. The death Friday of 35, Issam BadRAM in a shooting that erupted after Jewish settlers destroy a forest of trees destroyed in Palestine, was the type of incident that the Palestinians and the Israelis feared would cause widespread violence.
Still looking for approval by the World Forum is by far the more likeable for their research, the Palestinians hope it difficult for Israel is opposed to the strong global pressure to negotiate the boundaries of the future Palestine is based on the lines Israel held before capturing the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza in 1967.
"We have reached the Israeli government and Israeli peace operations," said Abbas. "Let us dialogue bridges instead of walls, checkpoints and the separation, and to build relationships based on equality and fairness of the two neighboring states - Israel and Palestine - rather than the policies of occupation, colonization, War and remove the others, "he said.
It is unclear how serious Abbas had threatened to break his very public limited autonomy, created a historic agreement between Israel and the Palestinians signed in 1990. Demolition could 150 000 Palestinians out of work and cause chaos. Israel, who is skeptical of these talks, it would be burdensome for the welfare of Palestinian police and 2.5 million unwanted problems.
The Palestinians say they turned to the UN in desperation over 18 years of peace talks have failed. They say they have decided to relaunch their campaign marking state by bringing it to the international forum as widely as possible - the United Nations - in the hope of a better status in the world would press Israel to act with more daring.
Netanyahu calls for his commitment to the restoration of peace is genuine and that the Palestinians are to blame the United Nations specifically to avoid negotiations.
In recent weeks the international brokers have been furiously trying to reconstruct a formula that would allow Palestinians to abandon their plans to ask the Security Council of the United Nations for full members, and instead just ask a friendly at General Assembly raise their status in the State Permanent Observer observer non-members.
With the approval of the Board is unlikely, that are expected to exercise this option, which, though smaller, is still considered valuable to the Palestinians for the implicit recognition of pre-1967 borders. It would also give the Palestinians access to international judicial bodies like the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, fearing that Israel unfairly target.
United States and Israel were also members of the Council of the pressure to vote against the draft or not when it comes to a vote. The vote will require the support of nine members of the Council of 15 to pass, but even if the Palestinians could bring this support, is an American veto proof.
Attempts to undermine the United Nations to move is followed regalvanized offer international talks moving again, but the continuation of the negotiations seems difficult to target, with both sides digging in positions that they took the negotiations for years. Israel insists that the talks go ahead, without preconditions. But the Palestinians say they will not return to the negotiating table without any guarantee that Israel would stop building settlements and to drop its opposition to negotiations to establish the boundaries it had before the 1967 war.
Conferences on all aspects collapsed nearly three years after Israel went to war in the Gaza Strip and ready to hold national elections, which eventually propelled Netanyahu to power a second time. A final round was launched a year ago with the ambitious goal of developing a framework for a peace agreement, but broke three weeks later, after a slowdown in the construction of Israeli settlements expired.
From the rostrum of the General Assembly, Mr. Netanyahu repeated his offer to meet Abbas in the framework of the UN session - an offer that Palestinian leader rejected in the past.
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