At this moment, US President Barack Obama, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and at least 120 heads of State or Government, might have already arrived in New York to attend this year's UN General Assembly. At this year's UN General Assembly, we can UN member countries to debate and discuss issues pertaining to nuclear safety, famine in Africa, Libya and other major issues. But the highlight of the debate and discussion for this year's UN General Assembly definitely focused on Palestinian Authority's application to join the United Nations as a member country.
The determination of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in wanting to file in an application for Palestine to become an UN member country is very firm. After giving his address at the UN General Assembly on 23 September, Mohamoud Abbas submitted Palestine's application documents to join the United Nations as a member country to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. After this, the "showdown" at the UN General Assembly between the Israeli regime and the Palestinian authority will officially be on at the UN platform.
Movement Against Palestinian Authority
At this stage, apart from the Israeli regime which has continued to intimidate the Palestinians, the United States, the European Union and the so-called Quartet West (the United States, European Union, Russia and the United Nations) are still making last-minute effort to discourage and to advise the Palestinian Authority on giving up its application to the UN as a member country. The consequence after the Palestinian authority filed an application in wanting to become an UN member is indeed unpredictable. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has also warned his fellow Palestinians that in the coming days, Palestinians will face even more (unpredictable) problems.
Abbas indeed knows very well that the consequence for the Palestinian Authority to file in an application to become an UN member can be very serious. However, regardless of what will happen to the Palestinians in the coming days, he has decided to fight for the independence of Palestine through seeking the help of the UN member countries now. Such a strong determination taken by the Palestinian Authority in wanting to become an independence country has reflected the political reality that in addition to the despair of the Palestinians after engaging more than 20 years of peace negotiation with the Israeli regime, their despair has also exposed the hypocrisy of the United States in its handling of Israeli-Palestinian affairs all along.
Although the United States has expressed its support for the "two state solution" framework to allow peaceful coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis, but it appears that all the peace proposals coming from the United States in wanting to resolve the pending Israeli-Palestinian conflicts are but empty talks. These empty talks coming from the United States can only let the Palestinians getting "excited" for a short while only. This is because in order for the United States to support and implement the Israel-Palestine "two-state solution framework", the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority must first resolve the vast and varied issues between them. These issues have included calling the Israeli regime to stop building more Jewish settlements in the Palestinian occupied land and for the common border between Israel and Palestine to retract back to the 1967 period. In addition, the Israeli authority must also allow the Palestinians to use East Jerusalem as its capital; to allow the tens and thousands of Palestinian refugees scattered in Jordon and other countries to return to their homeland, and so on. However, so far, the Israeli authority has even refused to issue an official command to stop the Israelis from building more Jewish settlements on the Palestinian land. As such there is no hope for the Palestinian Authority to expect the Israeli regime to take action on other issues that can move toward the two-state solution plan for Israel and Palestine.
Pressure on Israeli Authority
As a strong ally of Israel, the US Government has, besides repeatedly proclaimed that it will support the independence of Palestine, and besides issuing regrets to deplore the uncalled for action taken by the Israeli regime on the Palestinian land, the US Government has not taken any actual or pragmatic action to support the Palestinians. The US Government is afraid to offend the influential Jewish community in the United States.
The US Government dares not exert pressure on the Israeli authority and force the Israeli regime to make concessions toward the Palestinian Authority so that the Israeli-Palestinian peace talk can be resumed again. In this regard, the United States cannot escape the responsibility for causing the present predicament between the Israeli and the Palestinian Authority that has in turn led the Palestinians having to use the United Nations as its next political platform to resolve their pending problems.
The determination of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in wanting to file in an application for Palestine to become an UN member country is very firm. After giving his address at the UN General Assembly on 23 September, Mohamoud Abbas submitted Palestine's application documents to join the United Nations as a member country to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. After this, the "showdown" at the UN General Assembly between the Israeli regime and the Palestinian authority will officially be on at the UN platform.
Movement Against Palestinian Authority
At this stage, apart from the Israeli regime which has continued to intimidate the Palestinians, the United States, the European Union and the so-called Quartet West (the United States, European Union, Russia and the United Nations) are still making last-minute effort to discourage and to advise the Palestinian Authority on giving up its application to the UN as a member country. The consequence after the Palestinian authority filed an application in wanting to become an UN member is indeed unpredictable. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has also warned his fellow Palestinians that in the coming days, Palestinians will face even more (unpredictable) problems.
Abbas indeed knows very well that the consequence for the Palestinian Authority to file in an application to become an UN member can be very serious. However, regardless of what will happen to the Palestinians in the coming days, he has decided to fight for the independence of Palestine through seeking the help of the UN member countries now. Such a strong determination taken by the Palestinian Authority in wanting to become an independence country has reflected the political reality that in addition to the despair of the Palestinians after engaging more than 20 years of peace negotiation with the Israeli regime, their despair has also exposed the hypocrisy of the United States in its handling of Israeli-Palestinian affairs all along.
Although the United States has expressed its support for the "two state solution" framework to allow peaceful coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis, but it appears that all the peace proposals coming from the United States in wanting to resolve the pending Israeli-Palestinian conflicts are but empty talks. These empty talks coming from the United States can only let the Palestinians getting "excited" for a short while only. This is because in order for the United States to support and implement the Israel-Palestine "two-state solution framework", the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority must first resolve the vast and varied issues between them. These issues have included calling the Israeli regime to stop building more Jewish settlements in the Palestinian occupied land and for the common border between Israel and Palestine to retract back to the 1967 period. In addition, the Israeli authority must also allow the Palestinians to use East Jerusalem as its capital; to allow the tens and thousands of Palestinian refugees scattered in Jordon and other countries to return to their homeland, and so on. However, so far, the Israeli authority has even refused to issue an official command to stop the Israelis from building more Jewish settlements on the Palestinian land. As such there is no hope for the Palestinian Authority to expect the Israeli regime to take action on other issues that can move toward the two-state solution plan for Israel and Palestine.
Pressure on Israeli Authority
As a strong ally of Israel, the US Government has, besides repeatedly proclaimed that it will support the independence of Palestine, and besides issuing regrets to deplore the uncalled for action taken by the Israeli regime on the Palestinian land, the US Government has not taken any actual or pragmatic action to support the Palestinians. The US Government is afraid to offend the influential Jewish community in the United States.
The US Government dares not exert pressure on the Israeli authority and force the Israeli regime to make concessions toward the Palestinian Authority so that the Israeli-Palestinian peace talk can be resumed again. In this regard, the United States cannot escape the responsibility for causing the present predicament between the Israeli and the Palestinian Authority that has in turn led the Palestinians having to use the United Nations as its next political platform to resolve their pending problems.
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