Abbas wants UN to replace US as leading negotiator in peace talks, aide says

[Jefferson23]

9/9/2014

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wants the UN to replace the US as leading peace broker between Israel and the Palestinians, a senior official told Bloomberg in an interview published Tuesday.

Senior Fatah official Nabil Sha'ath said that if Israel does not agree to a West Bank pullout in the next round of talks, the Palestinians would challenge the Jewish state politically, "all over the universe." One thing on the future agenda, according to Sha'ath, is to urge the international community to handle Israel "as it did apartheid South Africa."

Sha'ath said their dream of statehood was not over and that they would turn to the UN Security Council to take over the peace process.

PA chief Abbas is slated to ask the UN for a deadline for a full Israeli withdrawal to pre-1967 lines, and will set a three-year window for the pullout.

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Abbas-wants-UN-to-replace-US-as-leading-negotiator-in-peace-talks-aide-says-374842

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1. That sounds

like a good idea.

[Jefferson23]

2. Hard to argue against it, all considered..yep. n/t

[hack89]

3. Being a Palestinian leader has always required an active imagination

sometimes bordering on fantasy.

As a member of the Security Council, America will have a veto. Things will simply go back to where they were pre-Oslo with a replay of the cold war being played out between the US and Russia and the debate hardening into two inflexible camps. We have tried this before and it failed.