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udun · Post by **udun** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:02 am

US House to warn Palestinians on statehood bid

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US House of Representatives closed ranks Wednesday to warn the Palestinians that they risk cuts in US aid if they pursue UN recognition of a future state not defined in direct talks with Israel.

A resolution to that effect had 320 co-sponsors out of the often polarized chamber's 435 voting members and was on track to sail to passage late in the day, one week after the US Senate unanimously approved a similar measure.

The bill also urged US President Barack Obama's administration to consider suspending aid to the Palestinian Authority pending a view of a unity deal between president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction and the radical Islamist movement Hamas.

"Any Palestinian unity government must publicly and formally forswear terrorism, accept Israel's right to exist, and reaffirm previous agreements made with Israel," it says.

Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Democratic House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer crafted the measure.

The measure reaffirmed US support for a two-state solution that would see "a democratic, Jewish state of Israel and a viable, democratic Palestinian state, living side-by-side in peace, security and mutual recognition."

But it warned of "serious implications for the United States assistance programs for the Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority" if they seek UN recognition of a future state not crafted in talks with Israel.

Peace talks ground to a halt in September 2010 when Israel failed to renew a partial freeze on settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.

Since then, the Palestinians have refused to return to talks as long as Israel builds on land they want for a future state.

They are planning to seek recognition of their state within the 1967 lines that preceded the Six-Day War when the UN General Assembly meets in September, despite the opposition of both Israel and the United States.

France has indicated that it might recognize an independent Palestinian state if peace talks are not back on track by September.

Germany, like the United States, is opposed to any unilateral steps and accepts the Israeli position that any progress must be made through negotiations.

The resolution supports Obama's opposition to a Palestinian push at the UN and urges him to announce that Washington will veto any resolution on Palestinian statehood before the UN Security Council unless it is the result of Israel-Palestinian talks.

The planned vote came as envoys from the so-called diplomatic "Quartet" for Middle East peace -- the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States -- were to meet in Washington on July 11.

The United States had hesitated for months over organizing the meeting before securing substantial progress towards a return to negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

"There will be a Quartet meeting in Washington on July 11th," a US official told a small group of journalists, speaking on condition of anonymity.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will participate in the meeting. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe had previously indicated the talks may take place.

In the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said he and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas' spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina would meet US officials in Washington on Wednesday for talks on peace efforts.

"The Palestinian delegation will meet David Hale, the American Near East envoy, and other American officials to discuss efforts to relaunch peace talks with Israel," Erakat told Voice of Palestine radio.

© AFP -- Published at Activist Post with license

udun · Post by **udun** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:05 am

No wonder Patrick Buchanan, former right wing congressman, called the US House of Representative and US Senate the "Occupied Territories." Why in the world that an independent Palestinian state bothers the US House of Representative and the US Senate?

Post by **FAH1223** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:11 am

Steny Hoyer is my congressman, shid

union · Post by **union** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:46 am

Aid money is no good if its being used only to distract you as what little left you have of land is being built on and stolen further. The U.S is allied with Israel and dictated to by the Israel lobby. Palestinians should look towards Europe (which is comparatively anti semtic), their own wealthy Arab cousins, and China for aid and support. Also the symbolism of being recognized by the UN would strengthen their cause and would turn worldwide sentiment even more anti Israel than it already is.

Garaad_LQ · Post by **Garaad_LQ** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:51 am

The US of A is run by AIPAC
It's very logical they will deny any Palestinian statehood as they did for the past 70 years

Rabshoole · Post by **Rabshoole** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:54 am

udun wrote:No wonder Patrick Buchanan, former right wing congressman, called the US House of Representative and US Senate the "Occupied Territories." Why in the world that an independent Palestinian state bothers the US House of Representative and the US Senate?

Anything involving Isreali is a direct threat to US. Palestinian deserve a state of its own. they have endured too much and long have been neglected under Isreali, subside what the US gots to assure them. Palestinian needs to move on and claim their statehood.

NewHargeisaGirl · Post by **NewHargeisaGirl** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 11:34 am

I recently learnt that there has never even been an independent state called Palestine at any point in history

---surely one cant miss what one never had !!
Read my lips... a palestinian State will never be, until arabs fully recognize the right of Israel's existence in the Mideast

grandpakhalif · Post by **grandpakhalif** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 11:45 am

Newhargeisagirl wrote:I recently learnt that there has never even been an independent state called Palestine at any point in history ---surely one cant miss what one never had !!
Read my lips... a palestinian State will never be, until arabs fully recognize the right of Israel's existence in the Mideast

Just because it wasn't formally recognized by the white man does not mean it never existed.

NewHargeisaGirl · Post by **NewHargeisaGirl** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 11:58 am

^^

udun · Post by **udun** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:06 pm

Newhargeisagirl wrote:^^

Who is this House Nigre?

Under the Romans, there has been a Palestine.
Under the succesive Islamic rule including the last Ottoman empire, there has been a Palestine.

Post by **Shirib** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:17 pm

Capitol Hill is Israeli Occupied Territory

Post by **Shirib** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:27 pm

NHG,

Why do you support injustice?

ToughGong · Post by **ToughGong** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:33 pm

Listen to this stupid woman,there was never a state called Isreal either b4 1948
Nor was there a state called Saudi Arabia,Pakistan,Somalia etc.etc.,at some point in history

union · Post by **union** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:21 pm

^

I wonder what other state still doesn't exist. Want to take a guess kintir dheer?

NewHargeisaGirl · Post by **NewHargeisaGirl** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:14 pm

union wrote:^

I wonder what other state still doesn't exist. Want to take a guess kintir dheer?

Udun,
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