P.A. plans new U.N. push for statehood

United Nations logoUNITED NATIONS (WJC) — The PA plans to submit a draft resolution on ending the Israeli occupation to the United Nations Security Council  and will seek a vote on it as early as this Wednesday, senior Palestinian officials said Sunday night, according to ‘Haaretz‘.

The resolution sets out a two-year timetable for Israel to withdraw its forces from areas in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem occupied during the 1967 Six Day War. A delegation of Arab leaders will ask the US not to use its veto to block the resolution when they meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in London on Tuesday.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responding to the Palestinian decision, on Monday said Israel would not accept any “attempts to dictate unilateral moves.” Before boarding a plane to Rome where he was scheduled to meet with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Kerry, Netanyahu told reporters that “there are attempts to dictate terms that would harm Israel’s security and won’t bring about peace.”

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