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Palestinians gesture during a public screening of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' speech at the United Nations, in the West Bank city of Ramallah September 23, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Mohamad Torokman By Alistair Lyon and Arshad Mohammed UNITED NATIONS | Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:50pm EDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked the United Nations on Friday to recognize a state for his people, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the world body as a "theater of the absurd" and said only direct talks could deliver peace. Abbas handed U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon a letter requesting full U.N. membership, which the Security Council will discuss on Monday. The United States has vowed to support its Israeli ally and use its veto if a vote is held. "I do not believe that anyone with a shred of conscience can reject our application ... and our admission as an independent state," Abbas told the U.N. General Assembly in an impassioned speech that won a standing ovation even as Israeli and U.S. delegates looked on stone-faced. Trying to head off a clash in the Security Council, a quartet of Middle East mediators urged a return to peace talks within four weeks, "substantial progress" within six months and an agreement to be struck within a year. Highlighting the divisions in the Palestinian camp, Hamas, the Islamist faction which rules the Gaza Strip, rejected Abbas' move as "begging" for statehood. "States are not built upon U.N. resolutions. States liberate their land and establish their entities," said Hamas spokesman Ismail Haniyeh. The Quartet -- the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations -- asked Israel and the Palestinians to submit proposals on territory and security within three months. "The Quartet proposal represents the firm conviction of the international community that a just and lasting peace can only come through negotiations," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, urging both sides to seize the chance to talk. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Quartet's special envoy, said the major powers believed they were closing in on guidelines that both sides could accept. But previous proposed timetables for negotiations, such as a one-year deadline set by former U.S. President George W. Bush in 2007 and one by Obama a year ago, have run into the sand. Abbas' statehood ploy exposes waning U.S. influence in a region shaken by Arab revolts and shifting alliances that have pushed Israel, still militarily strong, deeper into isolation. In their speeches, Abbas and Netanyahu both said they extended their hands to the other party, but each blamed their opponents for the failure of past peace efforts. "We cannot achieve peace through U.N. resolutions," Netanyahu said, demanding that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state, something they reject because they say that would prejudice the rights of Palestinian refugees. Netanyahu offered to meet Abbas immediately in New York, minutes after Abbas said settlement activity must cease first. LOSS OF FAITH The Palestinians say they will give the Security Council "some time" to consider their request, but if that fails may ask the General Assembly for upgraded status short of full membership that could let them join international bodies. Abbas' statehood bid reflects a loss of faith after 20 years of failed peace talks sponsored by the United States and alarm at Israeli settlement expansion in occupied land Palestinians want for a state. "This (settlement) policy will destroy the chances of achieving a two-state solution and ... threatens to undermine the structure of the Palestinian National Authority and even end its existence," Abbas declared. It was the first time he has spoken so starkly of the PA's possible demise, highlighting problems faced by a body set up as a state-in-waiting but now seen by its critics as little more than a big municipality, managing the civilian affairs of the main Palestinian cities under Israeli occupation. Dissolution of the PA would throw responsibility for ruling all of the West Bank back to Israel as the occupying power. Israeli and U.S. politicians have threatened aid cuts that could cripple the PA, the source of 150,000 jobs. Israeli delegates stayed in the hall during Abbas' speech, which was punctuated by applause, especially when he recalled his predecessor Yasser Arafat's 1974 admonition to the United Nations: "Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand." In the West Bank, flags and portraits of Abbas and Arafat, draped buildings in a Ramallah square where Palestinians watched a live broadcast of Abbas' speech. "We have come to take part with our people in asking for our rights," said Mohammed Hamidat, 40. "With the current closed horizons, it's the only thing we can do, even if the result is failure. It's been years since we have seen anything new: this is a first step." Israeli settler Meir Bartler, 25, said: "We don't care what they're up to at the U.N. We have the bible, which says the land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people." 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 rifts among Palestinians, and the constraints of U.S. domestic politics, where support for Israel is strong, further complicate efforts to bridge the gaps. Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdaineh said the Quartet proposal would be discussed in Ramallah but indicated there could be no compromise on the core issues of the 1967 borders and Jewish settlement construction. BURDEN OF HISTORY 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, which it launched fearing Arab states were about to attack it, the Palestine Liberation Organization recognized Israel and reduced its demands to a state on those territories. In 1993, PLO leader Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands at the White House on a plan for Palestinian self-rule, which was never fully implemented. Israel has expanded its 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. Abbas accepts that negotiations are still necessary, but argues statehood will put Palestinians on a more equal footing. Israel sees the U.N. bid as an attempt to destroy its own legitimacy. (Additional reporting by Nidal Almughrabi in Gaza, Tom Perry in Ramallah, Dan Williams in Jerusalem; John Irish, Ali Sawafta, Andrew Quinn, Louis Charbonneau and Patrick Worsnip; editing by Doina Chiacu and Todd Eastham) World United Nations Israel 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 (4) Sinbad1 wrote: The US is trying not to use its veto by getting other members of the security council to vote against the request. The US has threatened to destroy the already shaky economy of Portugal and has made undisclosed threats against Columbia Gabon Nigeria and Boznia. Germany still trying to apologize to the Jews will vote against Palestine. Great Britain will support its US ally. The only nations big enough to ignore US threats Russia China, Brazil and India will probably vote for Palestine but the Palestinians need 9 votes which they won’t get so the US will not have to use its veto and can continue with the we are impartial BS. I can remember when people were saying that Obama was a Muslim. This week he has proven that he is actually Jewish. Sep 23, 2011 9:22pm EDT -- Report as abuse vision966 wrote: That region’s history does not favour an objection. Although no one has brought that history into debate, its importance cannot be ignored or erased – if moral has any room left. Today, it is already a very very clear position as to who the victim actually is no matter how the scenario is presented. The question lies between credential acknowledgement from 189 or so nations and the uncomprehensive backing of one segment in certain strategic interests. Has such support beaome a burden or liability? Of course that crucial support may demonstrate some tantrum in the short term but is unlikely to be able to abandon the proven partnership in totality. Flexibility in decision making is important to secure maximum interest going forward. Sep 23, 2011 9:30pm EDT -- Report as abuse brian-decree wrote: As the world falls apart economically, religiously, environmentally and socially… maybe for good this time.. This situation will be a testiment to modern history and Capitalism we will reflect on in 100 years after we’ve hopefully managed to repair the damage done. We will look back on this and tell our children “like rome, it all fell apart, rotten from the inside… and we deserved it” This goes against every moral we are fed from birth… both by the state and our elders. It goes against every evil we have learnt through trial and error in the last 2000 years and especially the last 50. In the last 10 years we have been screamed at with loudspeakers, told not to refuse religious states, illegal weapons of mass destruction, persecution of minorities, killing of civillians, violation of borders, religious fundamentalism, attacking your neighbors, crushing protests, international assasinations, military state media, massive financial banking corruption, racial discrimination, political prisoners, religious persecution and have used these reasons to attack, punish and invade other countries. We have been told to uphold democracy in ideology and in practice and condemn all forms of dictatorship. Above all we have been told to respect and approve of Israels ‘right’ to exist and legitimacy as a state. Now, when they dictate to us that the Palistinians DON’T have a right to exist in their OWN country and approve the continuance of all these horrendous crimes and characteristics of the fanatical, illegal, racist state of Israel… It will show the world that we no longer have ANY credibility left whatsoever. And when the world falls apart this is one of the situations we’ll be able to look back on and say, that’s why kids…. Sep 23, 2011 12:43am EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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