The Dangers of Premature Recognition of a Palestinian State

  • 2011-07-20
  • By Naftali Tamir, Ambassador of Israel to Latvia and Lithuania
Agreements should be respected. They certainly should be respected in the United Nations. Yet in just a few months’ time, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is expected to violate its agreements with Israel and all the international frameworks for Mideast peace by seeking premature recognition of a Palestinian state in the UN in September.Israel remains dedicated to direct negotiations as the only method of resolving the conflict. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority has long abandoned peace negotiations. Instead, the Palestinian leadership has embarked on the path of unilateral a...
 
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