30.06.2011                      28.Siwan, 5771                      Jom Kippur Katan

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We won’t let US derail our statehood bid, says PA official

Following warning by US senators that aid will be cutoff if Abbas goes to UN, PA says we can't "sacrifice freedom for financial aid."

A US Senate resolution won’t deter the Palestinian Authority from proceeding with plans to ask the UN in September to recognize a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines, the PA said on Wednesday.
Nimer Hammad, an adviser to President Mahmoud Abbas, said that the Senate’s threat to cut off financial aid won’t stop the PA from doing something it considers to be in the interest of the Palestinians….