As America marks the 10th anniversary of the September 11 jihadist attacks, the Palestinian Authority's well-publicized plan to achieve UN recognition of a Palestinian state in all of Judea, Samaria, Gaza and northern, southern and eastern Jerusalem will reach its denouement.
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PA-controlled areas, early recognition of a Palestinian state, and new elections in the occupied territories to renew Mr Arafat's mandate as a leader and peace partner.
But the profound fear of all Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is that their leader intends eventually to trade refugee rights for Israeli recognition of a Palestinian state.
When he goes to the UN General Assembly in September to present his case for the recognition of a Palestinian state, he can now fend off barbs that he speaks for only half of Palestine.
While this step does not constitute US recognition of a Palestinian state in the absence of a peace treaty between the Palestinians and Israel, it certainly sends a clear signal that this is the direction the US is heading.
This can scarcely come as a surprise since, as the right-hand man of Yasser Arafat for decades, he is not exactly a new leader "not compromised by terror" - whose election Mr. Bush made, nearly three years ago, a precondition for U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state.
If two-thirds of the UN member states vote in favor of recognition, a state is accepted as a member state.
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He argues that in signing those accords Yasser Arafat put the principles of recognition and a possible two-state solution ahead of the need to stop the process of Israeli colonisation which was shredding one of those two states to ribbons.
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Hamas is an organization that has thus far rejected the recognition of Israel as a legitimate state.
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The latest proposal would have UN recognition for a state of Palestine made up of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
Crowley's refusal to give straight answers to straight questions about US recognition of Israel as a Jewish state shows that Israel has never faced a more unfriendly US administration.
Many Palestinians, including the young student Karma, pointed to President Obama's visit to Ramallah, with an honour guard and national anthems, "as a recognition of the Palestinian state".
Evans Revere, a former senior State Department official, said the North's vice foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, made clear a year ago that Pyongyang wanted acceptance, if not formal recognition, of its status as a nuclear weapons state.
It accused her of being "a musician who desperately thinks she must generate recognition by bullying state officials instead of playing decent music on the stage".
They needed state recognition of their movement as a religion.
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In a survey of American Jews taken by CAMERA on May 16-17, between 75% and 95% of American Jews supported Israel's position on defensible borders, Jerusalem, Palestinian "refugees, " Palestinian recognition of Israel's right to exist and the right of Jews to live in a Palestinian state.
As a matter of international law, when a U.S. President grants recognition to a foreign State, the President imposes no duty or obligation on the United States that the United States would not in any event be obliged to discharge.
Fear that Georgia might slip back into chaos, and recognition of Mr Saakashvili's role in building a functioning state, have deterred most Georgians from backing the opposition.
It also wants security guarantees and other concessions, direct talks with Washington, recognition as a nuclear weapons state and the removal of 28, 500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea.
They are airing a plan promoted by the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, to get on with building a state that can then be presented for recognition by the UN Security Council in a couple of years.
Responding to the parliamentary vote, the US state department said recognition of the two provinces' independence would be "a violation of Georgian territorial integrity" and "inconsistent with international law".
As a member of the House, he doesn't have major name recognition across the state, and he is going to have to spend lots of times knocking on doors if he is to become the junior senator from Florida and the only African-American in the U.S. Senate next year.
In that race, Schneiderman had more money, greater name recognition from a long career as a state senator from Manhattan, as well as the endorsement of then popular Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
Among them: unequivocal Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish national state with Jerusalem as its capital, and full demilitarization for a Palestinian state -- no army, no rockets or missiles, no control of airspace.
They fear that the fence can be seen as implicit recognition that the West Bank is politically separate from Israel and may in the future form part of a Palestinian state.
Mr. Arafat has accelerated his agitation for recognition of the United Nations' original 1947 partition plan, which would have assigned much of Galilee to a Palestinian state.
And we have -- as you know, the Secretary of State met with the head of the National Council, and that was a form of recognition about the importance of that body.
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