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Email Print Related News Palestinians have no wish to isolate Israel: Abbas Fri, May 27 2011 Abbas says Netanyahu offers no hope for peace Wed, May 25 2011 Netanyahu Congress speech raises few hopes Wed, May 25 2011 Netanyahu says will give up some land for peace Tue, May 24 2011 Obama eases Israeli anger on Mideast peace vision Sun, May 22 2011 Analysis & Opinion Palestinians are on the wrong path to statehood U.S.-Pakistan ties and the curse of secrecy Related Topics World » United Nations » Israel » 1 / 2 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrives at a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in the West Bank city of Ramallah May 25, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Mohamad Torokman By Ali Sawafta DOHA | Sat May 28, 2011 4:31pm EDT DOHA (Reuters) - The Arab League decided on Saturday to seek full U.N. membership for a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital, ignoring opposition from the United States and Israel. The Arab League's peace process committee, meeting in Doha, said it would request membership for the state of Palestine at the U.N. General Assembly's meeting in New York in September. "The committee decided to go to the United Nations to request full membership for Palestine on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital," it said in a statement. The 1967 borders refer to Israel's frontiers as they stood on the eve of the 1967 Middle East war in which it captured the Gaza Strip from Egypt and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, from Jordan. The Palestinian leadership began peace talks with Israel nearly two decades ago with the aim of founding a state alongside Israel in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel says that peace talks and an agreement are the only way for the Palestinians to achieve their goal of nationhood. But with the peace process at a standstill, the Palestinian leadership has been seeking new ways to advance their cause. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas opposes the use of violence. The Arab League's U.N. move looks set to fail because of the opposition of the United States, which has veto power in the Security Council. But Israel fears the maneuvering will leave them looking vulnerable on the diplomatic front. U.S. President Barack Obama, in a May 19 speech, condemned what he described as "symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United Nations," a reference to the Palestinians' plan to push for recognition at the September meeting. The Palestinians currently have the status of U.N. observers without voting rights. NO COMMON GROUND The Doha meeting had been convened in the wake of major Middle East policy speeches in Washington by Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu had said in a speech to the U.S. Congress he was ready to make "painful concessions" for peace, saying he was ready to give up parts of what he called the ancestral Jewish homeland -- a reference to the West Bank. The Palestinians said Netanyahu's ideas for peace had put more obstacles in the path of an already moribund peace process. Abbas, in his opening remarks to the Doha meeting, said there were "no shared foundations" for peace talks with Netanyahu and seeking U.N. recognition was his only option. "We see from the conditions that Netanyahu laid out that there are no shared foundations ... for negotiations. Our fundamental option is to go to the United Nations," he said. He expressed fear that the step would lead some states to "try to impose a siege upon us," though he did not say to which governments he was referring. "We hope that there will be a safety net from the Arab states," he said. The Palestinian Authority (PA) headed by Abbas is dependent on financial support from international donors including the United States and the European Union. It also relies on customs duties collected on its behalf by Israel, which triggered a financial crisis for the PA earlier this month when the Israeli government temporarily withheld the funds following a reconciliation deal between the rival Fatah and Hamas groups. U.S.-brokered talks between the Palestinians and Israel broke down last September in a dispute over continued Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank. "In these circumstances, it seems better to me that we freeze discussion of the peace process until there is a partner ready for peace," said Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, who was chairing the meeting. Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, a leading candidate for the Egyptian presidency, told Reuters that Netanyahu had presented nothing but a series of "no's" in his speech to the U.S. Congress. "The sound path is going to the United Nations and political struggle," Moussa said. "I believe that negotiations have become futile in light of all of these nos. What will you negotiate on?" (Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Louise Ireland and Andrew Dobbie) World United Nations Israel Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (3) USAalltheway wrote: the arabs are they reason why the talks are futile May 28, 2011 9:03am EDT -- Report as abuse drrealitycheck wrote: History does march on and neither racism nor whining will stop it. Neither Israel nor Palestine will go away. They fought their most decisive war 3000 years ago (King David and the Philistines) and never made the peace, yet both are still there. The Palestinians will have a state, this is historically inevitable. Israel is a nuclear power, it too, will remain. Neither side is the slightest bit interested in peace or negotiations despite the sop they feed to the masses. Our generation won’t see it but eventually they’ll both make an accommodation, in a future generation. May 28, 2011 11:11am EDT -- Report as abuse KiazerSouze wrote: There is all kinds of hope in continued talks. I’ll vouch for that. 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