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Ponce
21st December 2010, 09:45 AM
A drop at a time will a bucket fill.......may the bucket soon overflow.
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Brazil donates land for Palestinian embassy.
Published today (updated) 21/12/2010 19:22 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- Palestinian ambassador to Brazil Ibrahim Az-Zein received the title to a piece of land Monday, where the Palestinian embassy in Brazil will stand following that country's recognition of a Palestinian state earlier in the month.
Following the presentation of the generous gift, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement thanking Brazil for what it said was a 22-dunum track of land with an estimated value of $14 million.
The announcement came one day after chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said publicly that 10 European Union countries would soon upgrade their Palestinian representative offices to full diplomatic statis in a show of support for Palestinian state-building efforts.
"The Palestinians will not stop working to gain their freedom through all available channels and in peaceful ways," Erekat told Ma'an.
He said the Palestinian cause has gained international support in recent months and affirmed that Norway's decision to upgrade its representative office to an embassy had caused Israel much anxiety.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=344025
DMac
21st December 2010, 01:54 PM
Erekat: 10 EU states will upgrade their PLO missions (http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=200138)
Chief PA negotiator says Palestinian missions abroad are step closer to becoming embassies of an "occupied state with defined borders."
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Around 10 EU countries are set to upgrade the status of Palestinian representative offices in their capitals in the near future, chief Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat declared on Sunday.
This would mean that Palestinian missions would move a step closer toward becoming embassies whose officials enjoy full diplomatic immunity.
Erekat said that the move follows Norway’s recent decision to upgrade the status of the Palestinian representative office. Moreover, the move comes in wake of three South American countries to recognize a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, he added.
A PA official told The Jerusalem Post that the decision to seek international recognition of a Palestinian state was designed to shift the conflict from one over “occupied Palestinian territories” to one over an “occupied state with defined borders.”
The official said that while the Palestinians did not expect the recognition to end Israeli “occupation,” it would increase international support for the Palestinians and their cause.
Erekat said that the Palestinian position has earned the support of a majority in the international community.
Erekat did not say which EU countries were expected to upgrade the status of the Palestinian representative missions.
Earlier this week, the PA said it has appealed to several EU countries separately to recognize a Palestinian state on the June 4, 1967, borders.
The PLO negotiator said that Norway’s decision to upgrade the status of the Palestinian office to embassy level had “embarrassed and worried” the Israeli government.
“The Israelis are afraid that the issue of recognition of a Palestinian state would enter the EU,” he said. “We urge the international community to salvage the two-state solution by recognizing a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.”
Erekat said that the issue of recognizing a Palestinian state was a “free, independent and sovereign” matter for each country.
The US administration can’t prevent other countries from exercising their sovereign right, he said.
Nabil Sha’ath, another member of the PA negotiating team, said the Palestinians would accept nothing less than an independent state on the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital, and the “right of return” for refugees.
He ruled out the possibility that the Palestinians would resort at this stage to an armed struggle against Israel, saying that the best option for now was a “popular struggle.”
Serpo
21st December 2010, 02:12 PM
Erekat: 10 EU states will upgrade their PLO missions (http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=200138)
The PLO negotiator said that Norway’s decision to upgrade the status of the Palestinian office to embassy level had “embarrassed and worried” the Israeli government.
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This is very sad for Israel that they are embarrassed and worried like this ,it is really stressing me out........ :ROFL: :sun:
Plastic
21st December 2010, 02:13 PM
I wonder how long it will be before these 10 nations start suffering mass terrorist attacks....
Book
21st December 2010, 02:19 PM
This is very sad for Israel that they are embarrassed and worried like this...
They prevent an independent separate Palestine and also insist that the indigenous Palestinians now recognize their occupied land as a Jewish Homeland. This is insanity.
:o
Serpo
21st December 2010, 02:22 PM
I wonder how long it will be before these 10 nations start suffering mass terrorist attacks....
Would like to see it start to snow ball and other countries do this ,now that would be sight .......
Send them packing and they can take their nukes with em.....
oh yea and their phosphrous bombs also
Bullion_Bob
21st December 2010, 02:37 PM
Embarrassed and worried is the complete opposite of what they are feeling. Those feelings will come, but later, much, much later.
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