Spanien: Israel judarnas hemland

Haaretz betecknar uttalandet från Spaniens utrikesminister Trinidad Jimenez inför FN:s generalförsamling där hon erkänner att Israel är judarnas hemland som "dramatiskt".
"The foreign minister stressed Spain’s commitment to Israel “as the embodiment of the project to create a homeland for the Jewish people.”
Spain recognizes Israel as Jewish homeland, for first time

Nabil Shaath palestiniernas chefsförhandlare fördömde Spaniens uttalande:
"Detta är en felaktig inställning som kan vara resultat av påtryckningar på Spanien, som är dagen före val. Vad oss angår, kommer vi inte erkänna Israel som en judisk stat. De vill driva ut ur Israel 1,5 miljoner palestinier, om ett sådant erkännande görs. Detta är omöjligt. "

PA expects 9 countries to vote in favor of statehood bid

Israel har ca 1,5 miljoner arbiska invånare med fulla medborgerliga rättigheter deras ställning påverkas inte av att staten är judarnas hemland, vilket också Netanyahu sade i sitt tal till generalförsamlingen. Palestinierna stävar till att den palestinska staten skall rensas från judar och tydligen tillämpar man samma tankesätt på Israel trots att araberna bott där under hela Israels självständighetstid.

De palestinska reaktionerna på Obamas tal inför generalförsamlingen, där han gav sitt klara stöd för bildanadet av en palestinsk stat men samtidigt krävde att parterna förhandlar fram en lösning, är förvånansvärt omogna.

PA negotiator Nabil Shaath accused Obama of succumbing to pressure from the “Zionist lobby” in the US.Shaath claimed that Obama’s opposition to the Palestinian statehood bid was connected to his fear of losing the Jewish vote in next year’s US presidential election.He said that the Palestinians were not worried at all about US threats to cut off financial aid because of the statehood bid. “We have the Arabs and for sure the Arab countries will replace the [US] aid,” he told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency.“Obama prefers to capitulate to pressure from the Zionist lobby but he will lose a lot in the Arab world. The Palestinians won’t pay the price for his re-election. No one could force us to backtrack [from the statehood bid] in order to save Obama the embarrassment...

...Abbas Zaki, member of the Fatah Central Committee, said that the Palestinians would face greater challenges in the coming weeks because of continued US support for Israel.Israel, he added, “is regarded as the 51st US state and enjoys full American support and in the corridors of the UN. This means that the challenge to the Palestinians would be bigger from now on. But this will not dissuade the Palestinian leadership from pursuing its political battle to achieve membership in the UN.”In yet another sign of strained relations between the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah and the US Administration, the PA’s official newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, launched an unprecedented scathing attack on Obama and his top aides.Dubbing Obama a “Pariah,” the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Hafez Barghouti, said that the Palestinian issue “won’t continue to be held hostage by a group of Obama’s Zionist advisors.”Barghouti said that the Americans and others initially thought that Abbbas was joking about the statehood bid. “They thought that we would bow down under Obama’s feet or [French President Nicolas] Sarkozy’s cries or [Quartet envoy] Tony Blair’s arrogance or [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu’s acting,” he said.The Palestinian editor also condemned US Ambassador to the UN Suzan Rice as “representative of the Jewish lobby at the UN”, and Congress as a Jewish settlement.Barghouti said that US threats to punish the Palestinians financially did not scare anyone. “They think that the aid they are providing to the Palestinians is a favor or charity,” he added. “But in fact this is a simple compensation for the crimes and disasters that have plagued our people as a result of the US imperialist policy.”
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Barghouti and other Palestinian political analysts said that the most important achievement of the statehood bid was that it ended Washington’s “monopoly” over the conflict with Israel and placed it in the hands of the UN.“The Palestinian land still hasn’t been liberated, but it has been freed from the grip of the Americans and Israelis,” said analyst Hani Habib. “Now the Palestinian issue is once again under the responsibility of the UN. The Americans and Israelis have become isolated and besieged.”Habib also accused Obama of seeking to appease the “Zionist lobby” in the US ahead of the presidential election. ”