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Email Print Related News West Bank land won't give Israel security: Jordan 10:29am EDT Analysis & Opinion Meet the worst police decoy ever? Jewish Lag BaOmer pilgrimage in Tunisia goes ahead, but muted Related Topics World » United Nations » Israel » Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Sharm el-Sheikh September 14, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh By Ali Sawafta DOHA | Fri May 27, 2011 10:29am EDT DOHA (Reuters) - Palestinians are not seeking to isolate Israel on the international stage, but will pursue their unilateral drive for U.N. recognition of statehood unless peace talks resume, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday. He was in Doha for a meeting of Arab states on Saturday called to discuss U.S. President Barack Obama's latest ideas for reviving the moribund peace process and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's negative response to them. The Arab League will almost certainly endorse any suggestions put forward by the Palestinians, and in an interview with Reuters, Abbas said negotiations remained the best option for bringing about the creation of an independent state. "We will review ... the steps we will take -- persisting with negotiations as the fundamental way to achieving a resolution," Abbas said. "If we fail in reaching this solution, then we confirm that we will go to the United Nations." The Palestinians currently have the status of U.N. observers without voting rights, but are hoping that at September's General Assembly they can persuade other nations to accept them as a sovereign member. Both Netanyahu and Obama have criticized the move, and although U.S. opposition means the Palestinians have very little chance of success, the Israelis fear the maneuvering will leave them looking increasingly vulnerable on the diplomatic front. "Israel believes that if we go to the United Nations we will work to isolate it and delegitimise it," Abbas said. "This is not at all possible because we do not want to isolate Israel or to delegitimise it. On the contrary, we want to co-exist with it," he added. 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 a bid to break the deadlock, Obama said in a major policy speech last week that a future Palestinian state should be based on the borders as they existed on the eve of the 1967 Middle East, with land swaps mutually agreed with Israel. Netanyahu immediately rejected the proposal saying it would leave Israel with "indefensible" borders. But Abbas described the idea as "a foundation with which we can deal positively." Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh told Reuters in an interview that Israel will not gain security by clinging to territory beyond the 1967 West Bank frontier. (Writing by Crispian Balmer; editing by Mark Heinrich) 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 (2) USAalltheway wrote: No, they only want to kill all the jews like they tried to when they started the 6 day war. May 27, 2011 10:51am EDT -- Report as abuse tergen wrote: I’d like to see the Palestinian’s proposed constitution. Does the U.N. know what they are being asked to recognize? Are we going to hand over State power to people who blow up their own children to make a point? 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