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Full Article Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Strauss-Kahn team consults ex-CIA officers' firm 7:30am EDT Predictor of May 21 doomsday to watch it on TV | 19 May 2011 Israeli rebuke of Obama exposes divide on Mideast | 20 May 2011 Spain government rethinks ban as youth protests grow 20 May 2011 Director's shame casts pall over classy Cannes 12:47am EDT Discussed 293 Obama and Netanyahu face tense meeting on Mideast 81 Israel-Palestinian violence erupts on three borders 69 Boehner says ready to cut budget deal today Watched End of the world as we know it...on May 21 Wed, May 18 2011 Arnold Schwarzenegger's mystery woman identified Thu, May 19 2011 Netanyahu rejects Obama's border proposal Fri, May 20 2011 Palestinians set on U.N. statehood bid in September Tweet Share this By Mohammed Assadi and Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians will seek recognition as a U.N. member-state in September given the deadlock in U.S.-brokered peacemaking with Israel, a senior Palestinian official said on... Email Print Related News Gunmen kill suspected spy for Israel in West Bank 11:22am EDT Analysis & Opinion Taliban talks – a necessary but not sufficient condition for peace Obama offers slim pickings for Arab spring Related Topics World » United Nations » By Mohammed Assadi and Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank | Sat May 21, 2011 11:25am EDT RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians will seek recognition as a U.N. member-state in September given the deadlock in U.S.-brokered peacemaking with Israel, a senior Palestinian official said on Saturday. Nabil Shaath urged President Barack Obama, who on Thursday criticized the planned move at the U.N. general assembly, to join countries that have already endorsed a Palestinian state taking in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Another Palestinian official, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said the drive to win statehood status unilaterally could be forestalled should Israel accept the demand to extend a freeze on its settlement on occupied land so that negotiations can resume. But such rapprochement looked highly unlikely after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hosted in Washington on Friday, sparred with Obama over a new U.S. call for the future Palestinian state to have a border approximating to the West Bank's boundary before Israel captured it in the 1967 war. "Of course we will go to the United Nations," Shaath, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, told Reuters. "Especially after Netanyahu used the old pretext that he needs 'defensible borders' to keep stealing our land, control the Jordan Valley and create demographic facts on the ground." Diplomats see majority support for the Palestinians in the U.N. General Assembly. But the statehood vote would have first to be approved in the Security Council, where the United States -- which insists on a negotiated peace accord -- has a veto. "We urge President Obama to recognize the Palestinian state on the 1967 borders," Shaath said. "We are going to the United Nations in September, using all non-violent means." "SYMBOLIC ACTIONS" Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who had earlier warned his compatriots that a pro-Palestinian "diplomatic tsunami" was about to crest, welcomed Obama's remarks about the U.N. lobbying. "The president has erased the September issue. It's very important," Barak told Israel's Channel Two television. In February, the United States struck down a Security Council motion that would have branded the West Bank settlements as illegal. Analysts, noting that the 14 other council members voted in favor, said the Palestinians appeared to be signaling that Washington was out of step with an international consensus. Delivering a major Middle East policy speech on Thursday, Obama cautioned Palestinians against "efforts to delegitimise Israel." He added: "Symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United Nations in September won't create an independent state." Obama questioned the viability of a power-share deal forged last month between Abbas's Fatah faction and the armed, rival Hamas Islamists who control Gaza and spurn the Jewish state. But the Palestinians, who have long complained of Israeli unilateralism, were buoyed by Obama's vision of borders "based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps." Israel disputes the Palestinian claim on all of the territory, which was previously held by Jordan and is now peppered with Jewish settlements. Gaza, the other half of the Palestinian polity, was evacuated by the Israelis in 2005. Abbas spokesman Abu Rdainah said Palestinians preferred to pursue peace with Israel rather look to the United Nations. "Our position is to give an opportunity, until September, for going back to the negotiating table based on a halt to settlement activity," he said. "It would be our first choice." (Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Alison Williams) World United Nations 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 (1) amos033 wrote: Let the Palestinians “Appeal to Ceasar” but it will not succeed. All President Obama has accomplished is to open the door for the great war that Gog will launch against Israel as prophesied in Ezekiel 38 and 39 led by Gog and Magog and the outcome is already written. We are indeed in the last days and all bible prophecy will be fulfilled. Remember Harold Camping’s False Prophecy? Is not Jerusalem a ‘cup of trembling?’ Is not the world incited against Israel? Has not the love of many waxed cold? Has not the ‘falling away’ begun? Even so, come Lord Jesus! 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