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As the U.N. General Assembly approaches, and no solution for the deadlock of the direct talks between Israel and Palestinian Authority can be found, the United States have already made their decision not to support the claim of Palestinians for full membership of the United Nations.

Speaking at a regular U.N. Security Council reunion on Israeli-Palestinian relations, Rosemary DiCarlo, U.S. deputy ambassador to the U.N., said that the United States would not endorse any Palestinian unilateral action.

The deputy ambassador said that the symbolic actions intended to isolate Israel at the U.N. will not create a Palestinian state.

The United States has veto-power in the United Nations Security Council. Admissions to the U.N. General Assembly will be made only at the recommendation of the Security Council.

Palestinian U.N. observer, Riyad Mansour, replied that since the Palestinian proposition already has the support of 120 states, it can hardly be considered an unilateral act.

He said that by the admission of full membership for a Palestinian state, the two-state solution, by which Palestinians would have a state with east Jerusalem as capital and the borders it had before 1967, would be officially consecrated at the highest level.

Even though the Palestinian observer said that “it was time for Palestine’s independence,” the Western diplomats say it was not clear yet whether the Palestinians would seek full membership or introduce a non-binding resolution recognizing Palestinian state without U.N. membership.

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Two weeks ago, the Arab League pledged to introduce a request for full membership of the United Nations on behalf of Palestinians.

The Israeli ambassador at the United Nations Ron Prosor said that the Palestinians were not united in what they wanted and that they were much less united for peace.

Ron Prosor said it was time the United Nations told the Palestinians what their leaders refused to, that is that there is no shortcut for statehood. He alluded that the only means to achieve peace and a state is through negotiations with Israel.

Palestinian observer maintained that they were ready to discuss with the Israelis but that they were tired of waiting until Israel was ready to negotiate in “good faith.”

Israel is willing to accept a Palestinian state, but it is not ready to give them East Jerusalem as capital of their state, and wants to keep the pressure on Gaza’s Hamas.

Palestinians insist in turn that in order for a state of theirs to be established Israeli occupation in the territories must end.

In September 2010, the United States convinced the two sides to participate in direct talks, and two rounds of these talks have happened in Washington and Egyptian resort Sharm el Sheikh.

The discussion were stopped however as soon as Israel resumed the policy of settlement building in the West Bank.

Netanyahu could not prevent that from happening, given that his coalition in power is composed of political parties that favor settlement building.

Any other option than the freeze on settlements was fruitless, and the Israelis and Palestinians accused each other of this stalemate.

Palestinians advanced the idea of proclaiming their own state, within the borders before 1967 occupation by Israel and with East Jerusalem as capital of the new state.

Israel opposes the unilateral proclamation of a state that is not the result of direct negotiations. The Palestinian state has already been recognized by a series of Latin American states such as Brazil, Argentine, Uruguay, and Ecuador, by Russia, by Syria, and other Arab states.

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