The Palestinians: We’re in No Hurry to Sue Israel at the Hague
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Kids in Ramallah are holding signs of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in support of his UN bid for observer state status.
Photo Credit: Issam Rimawi/FLASH90
The Palestinians today are trying to play down Israel’s fear that, as soon as they are accepted as an observer state at the UN this week, they would start submitting lawsuits against Israel at the international criminal court at the Hague. But, according to Israel’s Channel 2 News, they have warned that going to the Hague would remain an option.
The PA’s UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour reiterated that, despite repeated pleas from Israel and the U.S., the Palestinians have every intention this week of carrying out their initiative to request from the 193-member general assembly to upgrade the Palestinian Authority’s status from “observer entity” to “observer state.”
The current draft of the proposal to be submitted by the Palestinian at the UN on Thursday, “the UN will decide whether to award Palestine the status of an observer state at the United Nations, without infringing on any accompanying rights regarding the Authority’s role as the representative of the Palestinian nation based on previous, relevant decisions.” The proposal further clarifies that it is intended “to enhance the right of the Palestinian nation to self determination as a Palestinian state in the territories that were occupied in 1967.”
Jerusalem and Washington continue to argue that the Palestinian move is wrong, but both have already acceded to their anticipated defeat at the general assembly. The French announcement yesterday that they would vote in favor of the upgrading, was followed by announcements from Denmark, Norway, Spain and Switzerland, all supporting President Abbas, as will Great Britain. Italy and Australia are expected to abstain. The U.S., Canada, Guatemala and Micronesia—never forget Micronesia—will reject the proposal.
Germany’s position is not yet clear. Now, that’s a relief.
The truly troublesome part of the proposal is not so much the new status, which still stops short of real statehood, but with the fact that the full assembly will embrace its depiction of the urgent need to renew the negotiations as part of the peace process in the Middle East, to reach a resolution of the essential issues – the refugees, the status of Jerusalem, the settlements, the borders, security and water.
Channel 2 commented that at this stage in the draft, prisoner release is not one of those essential issues.
Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in New York and the game is on. Israel’s immediate response to his move will likely be to freeze the taxes Israel collects on behalf of the PA and to take from that money the $200 million plus the PA owes the Israeli electric company.
It’s a start.
tell a friendAbout the Author: JewishPress.com Senior Internet Editor Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published two fun books: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.
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Firstly,there is no such thing as “Palestinians”.Secondly,they are occupiers of GOD’S land.Thirdly,they are very good at playing political chess and words of deception..
Israel should be in a hurry to sue the PA. If one knows that someone is going to attack, you attack him first.
Makes you wonder, the rest of the world must be so fed up with the Palestinians they'll do anything to get them our of their hair at the expense of Israel! If they are successful I do hope North America STOPS GIVING THEM AID at the expense of the tax-payers! Let those who are backing them, start giving them (Abbas) $$$$$$. Just remember how much was stolen when Arafat was in power, and who has that STOLEN $$$$$ now? I want to vomit when I read this kind of crap going on at the U.N.
Forgot to mention, let's hope Israel has kept all of the evidence of all the wrong doings the Palestinians have done to Israel, and this includes the murders, maiming, stolen $$$$ etc, the list is very long. Mustn't forget the murders Arafat and his goon terrorists also committed when he was alive. The best defence is the attack, and we must never forget!
Any case would be thrown out by the International Criminal Court, because there is no evidence of mass graves being discovered. It would simply be a case of bad feelings. Well get over those bad feelings, because they only way an independent Israel can live next to an independent Palestine, is if there is reconciliation and forgiveness, by both sides. This is the International Criminal Court, not Divorce Court.
I no longer have any respect for the Noble Peace Prize.
Time for the US to leave the UN or at least completely unfund it. The UN has overstayed its visit to the US and would be more at home in Cuba or some other totalitarian state.