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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): And ...... our second Middle East story: the coming showdown at the United Nations over a Palestinian state.
Furniture makers in the West Bank have been crafting a chair for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to take to New York next week for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. It's embroidered with a message: "Palestine's Right. A Full Membership in the United Nations."
Abbas has said that's exactly what he wants.
MAHMOUD ABBAS, Palestinian Authority president (through translator): We will go together to the United Nations to get a full membership for a Palestinian state in this global forum.
JEFFREY BROWN: Israel has strongly opposed the move. And Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned the Palestinians today to think twice.
PBS Newshour 9/14/2011
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As I've said many times before, the Israel/Palestine issue will NOT be solved by outside entities (U.S., UN, EU, or any others).
This will only be solved when the PEOPLE of Israel AND Palestine tell their governments to stop; stop the fighting, stop the political rhetoric, stop the settlements, etc.
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