Statehood (Palestinian-Report‪)‬

Struggle for State Reaches Climax by September As the Palestinian Authority works hard to secure global support for its long-aspired goal of establishing an independent state on Palestinian territories, Israel's rightwing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is working in the opposite direction. Israel is trying to thwart the Authority's effort and persuade its friends and allies to insist on a negotiated settlement for the decades-old Palestinian-Israeli dispute. They will find out whether they win or lose in September when the U.N. General Assembly holds its annual meeting in New York. "Israel is seriously worried from a 'political tsunami' it expects to come into being in the aftermath of a UN decision in September recognizing Palestine as an independent state," the London-based pan-Arab daily AL HAYAT reported on Apr. 13.