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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

U.S. Senators in Israel Say No to U.N. Resolution on Palestinian Statehood

Fox
Any United Nations resolution calling for unilateral statehood for Palestinians would be "dead on arrival," Democratic Sen. Ted Kaufman of Delaware said Monday while visiting Jerusalem.

Speaking during a press conference at the Saban Forum on Monday, Kaufman, who was joined by Sen. Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., said any effort to present a U.N. resolution that would eliminate Israel's role in the two-state solution is a "waste of time."

Lieberman said the U.S. will likely veto any resolution presented to the United Nations ...

The Palestinians officially asked the European Union on Monday to back a move to have the U.N. Security Council recognize an independent Palestinian state without Israeli consent.

...[Palestinian leader Saeb]Erekat accused Israel of spending nearly two decades trying to "impose facts on ground by stealing Palestinian lands and build settlements and barriers aiming to finish off the two-state project." Full story