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Credit: Reuters/Baz Ratner By Alistair Lyon UNITED NATIONS | Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:25am EDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asks the United Nations Friday to recognize a state for his people, even though Israel still occupies its territory and the United States has vowed to veto the move. In what he may see as a date with destiny, Abbas, 76, will hand U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon an application for full U.N. membership, which the Security Council must then consider. His appeal to the council reflects a loss of faith after 20 years of failed peace talks sponsored by the United States, Israel's main ally, and alarm at relentless Israeli settlement expansion that is eating into the land Palestinians want for a state. It also exposes Washington's dwindling influence in a region shaken by Arab uprisings and shifting alliances that have pushed Israel, for all its military muscle, deeper into isolation. Abbas will set out his case in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will also take the podium to argue that only direct negotiations between the two sides can lead to a Palestinian state. President Barack Obama, who told the United Nations a year ago he hoped Palestinians would have a state by now, said Wednesday he shared frustration at the lack of progress. But he said only Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, not actions at the United Nations, could bring peace. "I am convinced that there is no short cut to the end of a conflict that has endured for decades," he declared. But the notion that more talks in the familiar format can succeed where so many have failed seems implausible. So Abbas, a moderate politician opposed to violence, sees no alternative but recourse to the United Nations, although Israeli and U.S. politicians have threatened financial reprisals that could cripple his Palestinian Authority. Should that happen, one Abbas aide said, the Palestinian Authority could dissolve itself, forcing the Netanyahu government to consider reassuming responsibility over all of the West Bank -- a major demographic and security liability for Israel. "We will invite you to become the only authority from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean," the aide, veteran negotiator Saeb Erekat, told Israel Radio. BURDEN OF HISTORY A gulf of mistrust separates Israelis and Palestinians, who each feel their existence is at stake in a bitter struggle over borders, security, refugees and Jerusalem. Political divisions among Palestinians, and the constraints of U.S. domestic politics, where support for Israel is solid and long-standing, further complicate any chance of bridging the gaps. The divisions are rooted in a heavy burden of history, painfully contested narratives and recurring bloodshed. The United Nations partitioned Palestine in 1947, but Arab states rejected that and declared war on the new state of Israel, which then captured more territory than it had been allotted under the U.N. plan and dispossessed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, who became refugees. Two decades after Israel seized the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war, the Palestine Liberation Organization effectively reduced its demands to a state on those territories. A 1993 agreement signed by PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin set out a plan for Palestinian self-rule, which was never fully implemented. Israel has continued to expand settlements in the West Bank, although it dismantled them in the Gaza Strip, now ruled by Hamas Islamists who refuse to recognize the Jewish state. Two Palestinian uprisings erupted in 1987 and 2000, but failed to end Israeli occupation or bring statehood closer. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States would continue to push for a durable, negotiated peace. "Regardless of what happens tomorrow in the United Nations, we remain focused on the day after," she said Thursday. Abbas, who has won new popularity at home for his determined stance, accepts that negotiations are necessary, but argues statehood will put Palestinians on a more equal footing. Israel sees the initiative at the United Nations as a sinister attempt to shear away its own legitimacy. Diplomats at the United Nations are already looking to limit the fallout from the Palestinian statehood application. The Security Council could delay action on Abbas' request, giving the mediating "Quartet" -- the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations -- more time to craft a declaration that could coax the two sides back to the table. But the Quartet, whose envoys met for several hours on Thursday, may be unable to agree on a statement that could satisfy both Israel and the Palestinians. Another option, advanced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, would see the Palestinians go to the General Assembly, which could vote to upgrade the Palestinians from an "entity" to a "non-member state" while reviving direct peace talks. That could allow the Palestinians to pursue Israel in war crimes tribunals, but European diplomats are seeking a tacit assurance they would not do so as long as negotiations last. Sarkozy's plan sets an ambitious timetable for talks to begin within one month, an agreement on borders and security within six months and a final peace agreement within a year. Israel was cool to the French proposal. "A Palestinian state should be the outcome of negotiations, which means a Palestinian state should mark the end of conflict and cessation of claims," Netanyahu's cabinet secretary, Zvi Hauser, told Israel's Army Radio. (Additional reporting by Dan Williams in Jerusalem; Editing by Peter Cooney) World Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. 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. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (1) brian-decree wrote: There is one single paragraph in this story that refers to Iran’s Ahmadinejad…. and it simply explains that he was there making a speech… So why have you used his picture next to a headline about the Palistinian issue??? Ahmadinejad didn’t even refer to Palistinian statehood in his address. Do you want the Palistinian cause of statehood to be seen as associated with the demonized Ahmadinejad??? Because that’s what it looks like. What a bizzare meshing of two totally different stories!?? Sep 22, 2011 9:56pm EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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