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