US will veto any palestinian statehood bid

Eric Cartman

http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/us-to-veto-palestine-statehood-resolution-in-unsc-white-house/826736.html

From Lalit K Jha Washington, Sept 16 (PTI) The US would veto any resolution on Palestine statehood in the powerful UN Security Council, a top American official said today, arguing that any statehood recognition should come through bilateral negotiations with Israel. While there has been no formal notice to the UNSC yet, the US Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes told reporters at a White House news conference that "we would veto" any resolution with regard to Statehood to Palestine in the Council."They need to work this out to Israel," Rhodes said, as he underlined the US position that such a move would be counterproductive and not help in achieving full statehood.He said presently it was unclear "what course Palestinians are going to pursue at the UN, what the sequencing of actions at the UN will be"."I wouldn't want to address potential consequences to those actions before we can look at the situation we're dealing with.... We'll continue to oppose those efforts, but until we know what the precise proposal is, we're not capable of speaking about potential consequences," Rhodes said in response to a question.White House Press Secretary Jay Carney yesterday said Palestine can't aim to achieve Statehood by passing of a resolution at the UN and insisted that the best way to get this is through negotiations with the Israel."The Palestinians will not, and cannot, achieve statehood through a declaration at the United Nations. It is a distraction, and, in fact, it�s counterproductive," Carney said."That remains our position. We continue to be focused with great intensity on the need to get Israelis and Palestinians together again in direct negotiations, because that is the path towards a two-state solution and Palestinian statehood," he said.

So it appears obama is doing more of the same and supporting isreal fully in its terror campaign against palestine.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html - list of US veto's against anti-isreal motions in the UN

to me this is a disgrace and the US have no right to dare oppose palestine becoming its own independent state

orourkeda

Eric Cartman wrote: »

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So it appears obama is doing more of the same and supporting isreal fully in its terror campaign against palestine.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html - list of US veto's against anti-isreal motions in the UN

to me this is a disgrace and the US have no right to dare oppose palestine becoming its own independent state

Any surpise there?

Super-Rush

I bet the politics forum would love a thread about this.