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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Ambassador Works to Head Off Palestinian Statehood

July 27, 2011 Lisa Hostein, Executive Editor



Israel's ambassador to the United States has a lot on his plate these days, but one issue preoccupies him more than most: the Palestinian quest to gain statehood recognition at the United Nations.

With just a month before a possible mid-September showdown, Ambassador Michael Oren said he is working on the issue daily, using diplomacy to try to head off a U.N. resolution while simultaneously planning for the fallout should it happen.

Michael Oren
Photo by Anne Menanbaum
In an interview during a visit to Philadelphia last week, he suggested that a U.N. decision to take up such a resolution would further isolate Israel and potentially lead to renewed violence in the region.
Oren asserted that Israel and the United States are on the same page as they work to avert a U.N. resolution.
He said that Israel, at the request of the Obama administration to "do something different" to get back to the negotiating table with the Palestinians, has accepted the idea of the 1967 boundaries with mutually agreed land swaps as a basis for negotiations with the Palestinians.
At the same time, he said, "Israel regards the 1967 boundaries as indefensible and stresses the need to address the rights and interests of the hundreds of thousands of our citizens who live beyond those lines. Read the rest on:  







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