‘Acceptance of PA’s UN bid will push back talks for years’

01.09.2011                      02.Elul, 5771                      Slichot Adot Misrach

UN – Abstimmung:

‘Acceptance of PA’s UN bid will push back talks for years’

Senior official warns that General Assembly resolution recognizing PA as a nonmember state would create “unbridgeable gaps.”

A UN General Assembly resolution recognizing the Palestinian Authority as a nonmember state would create “unbridgeable gaps” and push back negotiations for years, a senior Israeli official warned Wednesday.
The official said that once such a resolution was passed, the Palestinians would never be willing to negotiate on the basis of anything less, and no Israeli leader would ever be able to agree to what the Palestinians would likely get from the UN….