Ten reasons Palestine is right to bring its case to the UN (Bradley Burston)

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Mr Burston wrote this before the Palestinian application was submitted last week, but this is good and really worth reading...

1. It restores the issue of Palestine from the back-burner to the world's biggest stage, without resort to violence.

This stands in stark contrast to the loose-cannon guerrilla band image cultivated by Yasser Arafat in his 1974 address to the General Assembly ("Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom-fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat …"), which gave no quarter to the existence of an independent Israel.

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8. The Palestinians' secret weapon I: Avigdor Lieberman.

Thus far, the foreign minister is the only senior official scheduled to represent Israel in New York during the deliberations next week. A year ago, in his last appearance before the United Nations, Lieberman effectively contradicted the Israeli line that Israel was ready for peace and that the process had been impeded solely by the Palestinians. Neither side was ready for peace, he told the General Assembly, declaring that an agreement was something that could take "a few decades."

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10. The Palestinians' secret weapon III: Benjamin Netanyahu.

As the UN deliberations near, the prime minister's statements have grown more defiant. His protestations that Israel's worsening relations with Egypt and Turkey have nothing to do with the Palestinian issue, have ensured that tensions with all three have become increasingly interrelated, both at home and abroad.

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/ten-reasons-palestine-is-right-to-bring-its-case-to-the-un-1.384256

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1. Thanks.

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2. Thanks great article

Israel is really sending Yvet to speak for them at the UN ?!?