Dec 26 2009
THE ONLY HOPE LEFT
The following appeared in FOreign Policy
The Only Hope Left?
Why a unilaterally declared state might be the only one that Palestine can get.
BY DAOUD KUTTAB | NOVEMBER 17, 2009
Mahmoud Abbas is in a bind. Faced with a seemingly insurmountable impasse to negotiations with Israel, the Palestinian Authority president can either resign from his PLO chairmanship or come up with some serious, unilateral action to break the deadlock. With hopes that Barack Obama would stand up to the right-wing Israeli leadership dashed, an unwillingness to return to violent resistance, and the inability to resign his presidency of the PA in protest, the Palestinian leader has no alternative but to declare a Palestinian state unilaterally.
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