75.“PA Summons Palestinian Columnist for Interrogation,” Ma’an News Agency, October 31, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=532780; Khaled Abu Toameh, “West Bank: What the West Is Funding,” Gatestone Institute, November 2, 2012, www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3429/palestinian-authority-free-speech.
76.Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Gives Man 1 Year Prison for Criticizing Leaders,” Jerusalem Post, February 7, 2013, www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=3024
11.
77.“Court Upholds Jail Sentence for Reporter Accused of Insulting Abbas,” Ma’an News Agency, March 28, 2013, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=57
9849.
78.“Palestinian Journalist Pardoned for Insulting President,” Committee to Protect Journalists, April 2, 2013, http://cpj.org/2013/04/palestinian-journalist-pardoned
-for-insulting-pres.php.
79.Email correspondence with George Hale, April 27, 2013.
80.“PCHR Is Concerned Over the Security Officers’ Violent Dispersal of Two Peaceful Sit-ins Organized by Hizbut-Tahrir in Tulkarm,” Palestinian Center for Human Rights, April 30, 2013, www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9461:pchr-is-concerned-over-the-security-officers-violent
-dispersal-of-two-peaceful-sit-ins-organized-by-hizbut-tahrir-in-tulkarm&catid=36
:pchrpressreleases&Itemid=194.
81.“Fayyad: Press Freedom Essential for Palestinian State,” Ma’an News Agency, May 13, 2013, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=594833.
Chapter 13 Unilateralism
1.“Full Text of Pres. Mahmoud Abbas’ Statement to the UN General Assembly,” Voice of America, November 29, 2012, www.voanews.com/content/mahmoud
-abbas-speech-to-united-nations-general-assembly/1556084.html.
2.“United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Meeting in Support of Israel-Palestinian Peace Concludes in Montevideo, Uruguay,” United Nations, March 31, 2011, www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2011/gapal1193.doc.htm.
3.“Venezuelan-Palestinian Ties Forged,” Al-Jazeera, April 28, 2009, www.aljazeera
.com/news/americas/2009/04/2009427234224190396.html.
4.“Abbas Concludes South America Tour,” Ma’an News Agency, November 29, 2009, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=243116.
5.“Brazilian President: I Dream of Free Palestine,” WAFA, March 17, 2010, http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=13894.
6.“Brazil Says It Recognizes Palestinian State,” Associated Press, December 4, 2010, www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=197908.
7.“Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay Recognize Palestinian State,” Agence France-Presse, December 6, 2010, www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j6LW4hivgK
RMW-N8S1xV6P9AwVew; “Bolivia Recognizes Palestinian State,” Ma’an News Agency, December 17, 2010, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=3429
77; “Ecuador Recognizes Palestinian State,” Agence France-Presse, December 25, 2010, www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4004103,00.html.
8.“Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay Recognize Palestinian State,” Agence France-Presse, December 6, 2010, www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j6L
W4hivgKRMW-N8S1xV6P9AwVew.
9.“Abbas Lays Brazil Embassy Cornerstone,” Agence France-Presse, December 31, 2010, www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4007250,00.html.
10.Eva Vergara, “Chile Says It Recognizes a Palestinian State,” Associated Press, January 8, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=12566957.
11.“Peru Recognizes Palestinian State,” Reuters, January 24, 2011, www.reuters.com
/article/2011/01/24/us-palestinians-peru-idUSTRE70N5ZW20110124; “Paraguay Recognizes ‘Palestine’ with Pre-1967 Borders,” Jerusalem Post, January 29, 2011, www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=205690; “Guyana Becomes 7th South American State to Recognize Palestinian Independence,” Haaretz, January 14, 2011, www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/guyana-becomes-7th-south-ameri
can-state-to-recognize-palestinian-independence-1.336944.
12.“Suriname Recognizes Palestinian State,” Ma’an News Agency, February 1, 2011, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=356264.
13.“Uruguay Recognizes Palestinian State,” Reuters, March 15, 2011, http://ca.reuters
.com/article/topNews/idCATRE72F0SA20110316.
14.“France Upgrades Its Diplomatic Relations With the Palestinians,” European Jewish Press, July 27, 2010, www.ejpress.org/article/45147.
15.“Portugal Upgrades Palestinian Representation,” Ma’an News Agency, October 14, 2010, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=324060; Marianne Stigset, “Norway Calls for Palestinian State, Gives Diplomatic Mission Embassy Rank,” Bloomberg, December 15, 2010, www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-15/norway
-calls-for-palestinian-state-gives-diplomatic-mission-embassy-rank.html; “Obama Sees Enormous Hurdles in Mideast Peace Talks,” Reuters, September 10, 2010, www
.reuters.com/article/2010/09/10/us-obama-mideast-idUSTRE6893JY20100910.
16.“In for a Pound,” Monocle, 4, no. 37 (October 2010).
17.“Erdogan Pledges Support for ‘67 State,” Ma’an News Agency, December 6, 2010, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=339326.
18.“Erekat Demands UN Intervention,” Ma’an News Agency, November 27, 2010, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=336454.
19.“Hammad: We Will Go to the World for Recognition of a Palestinian State,” WAFA, December 5, 2010, www.wafa.ps/arabic/index.php?action=detail&id=92334.
20.“Cyprus Upgrades Palestinian Delegation,” Agence France-Presse, May 6, 2011, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=385370; “Denmark to Upgrade Status of Palestinian Representation to ‘Mission,’” Haaretz, March 9, 2011, www.haaretz.com/news/international/denmark-to-upgrade-status-of-palestinian
-representation-to-mission-1.348168; Bruno Waterfield, “Ireland Upgrades Palestinian Diplomatic Delegation to a Mission,” Telegraph, January 25, 2011, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/8281760/Ireland-upgrades
-Palestinian-diplomatic-delegation-to-a-mission.html; “Foreign Secretary Announces Upgrading of the Palestinian Delegation to London,” Foreign & Commonwealth Office, March 8, 2011, www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?id=562006582
&view=News; “Greece Upgrades Palestinian Representation Status,” Agence France-Presse, February 15, 2011, www.naharnet.com/stories/en/3078-greece-upgrades
-palestinian-representation-status.
21.Khaled Abu Toameh, “Spain Will Recognize Palestinian State on 1967 Lines,” Jerusalem Post, May 30, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID
=222873&R=R1; “Shaath: Slovenia to Recognize Palestine Before September,” Ma’an News Agency, May 17, 2011, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID
=388711; “Report: Iceland Backs Recognition of Palestinian State,” Ma’an News Agency, June 7, 2011, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=402842.
22.“Dominican Republic Supports Palestine’s Statehood, Honors Abbas,” Xinhua, October 7, 2011, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-10
/08/c_131179157.htm; “Peru Recognizes Palestinian State,” Reuters, January 24, 2011, www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/24/us-palestinians-peru-idUSTRE70N5Z
W20110124.
23.David Sheen, “Norway’s Ambassador: Palestinian Appeal to UN Legitimate in Lieu of Treaty with Israel,” Haaretz, July 28, 2011, www.haaretz.com/news
/diplomacy-defense/norway-s-ambassador-palestinian-appeal-to-un-legitimate-in
-lieu-of-treaty-with-israel-1.375761; “Bulgaria Unexpectedly Rebuffs Israel Over Palestinian UN Bid,” Agence France-Presse, July 7, 2011, www.maannews.net/eng
/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=403329; Ronen Medzini, “Who Will Endorse Palestine?” Ynet News, August 27, 2011, www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4114432,00
.
html.
24.“EU States Divided on Palestinian Statehood Bid,” Reuters, September 2, 2011, www
.reuters.com/article/2011/09/02/us-eu-palestinians-idUSTRE7816AJ20110902.
25.Barak Ravid, “Merkel: Unilateral Recognition of Palestinian State May Not Push Peace Forward,” Haaretz, April 7, 2011, www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy
-defense/merkel-unilateral-recognition-of-palestinian-state-may-not-push-peace
-forward-1.354676.
26.“Window of Opportunity for Peace Is Closing,” La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, May 23, 2011, www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/notizia.php?IDNotizia=429222.
27.“Sarkozy: ‘Netanyahou Doit Prendre le Risque de la Paix,’” L’Express, May 5, 2011, www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/sarkozy-netanyahou-doit-prendre-le-risque
-de-la-paix_989485.html.
28.Herb Keinon, “Spanish FM Signals Support for PA at UN, Drawing,” Jerusalem Post, August 21, 2011, www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx
?id=234739.
29.“Portugal Upgrades Palestinian Representation,” Ma’an News Agency, October 14, 2010, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=324060; Marianne Stigset, “Norway Calls for Palestinian State, Gives Diplomatic Mission Embassy Rank,” Bloomberg, December 15, 2010, www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-15/norway
-calls-for-palestinian-state-gives-diplomatic-mission-embassy-rank.html; “Obama Sees Enormous Hurdles in Mideast Peace Talks,” Reuters, September 10, 2010, www
.reuters.com/article/2010/09/10/us-obama-mideast-idUSTRE6893JY20100910.
30.“Palestinians Seek Support for UN Recognition,” Associated Press, June 27, 2011, www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9716026.
31.“Promised Donor Aid Not Arriving: Palestinian PM,” Agence France-Presse, May 31, 2011, www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g-4YX650HUS_8yrN
pFQerIxiG0HA?docId=CNG.836b5e3d9530f1a41a32f2a2dc8f9d11.3b1.
32.Ora Coren and Nadan Feldman, “In Response to UN Vote, Israel Unlikely to Rescind Economic Accords with PA,” Haaretz, December 2, 2012. www.haaretz
.com/business/in-response-to-un-vote-israel-unlikely-to-rescind-economic-accords
-with-pa.premium-1.481812.
33.“Palestinians Plan Mass Demonstrations Against Israel on Eve of UN Vote,” Associated Press, August 1, 2011, www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense
/palestinians-plan-mass-demonstrations-against-israel-on-eve-of-un-vote-1.376457.
34.“Officials Set Date for ‘Palestine 194’ March,” Al-Jazeera, August 1, 2011, www
.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/08/201181185654921787.html.
35.“Barghouti Urges Palestinian March to Back UN Statehood Bid,” Reuters, July 20, 2011, www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=230195.
36.Tom Perry and Ali Sawafta, “Abbas Urges Palestinian Protest to Support U.N. Bid,” Reuters, July 27, 2011, www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/27/us-palestinians
-israel-abbas-idUSTRE76Q3IH20110727.
37.Daoud Kuttab, “The Palestinian Third Way,” Jerusalem Post, July 16, 2011, www
.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=229648.
38.Khaled Abu Toameh, “70% of Palestinians Expect Third Intifada If Talks Fail,” Jerusalem Post, May 17, 2011, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID=22
0974.
39.“Apple Drops iPhone ‘Intifada’ App That Encourages Users to Launch Violence Against Israel,” Daily Mail, June 23, 2012, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article
-2007174/Apple-drops-iPhone-intifada-app-encourages-users-launch-violence
-Israel.html#ixzz2KjmzSBz1.
40.“MK Mofaz: Reserves Likely to Be Mobilized in September,” Ynet News, August 2, 2011, www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4103383,00.html.
41.“Full Transcript of Abbas Speech at UN General Assembly,” Haaretz, September 23, 2011, www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/full-transcript-of-abbas
-speech-at-un-general-assembly-1.386385.
42.“Abbas Receives Rousing Reception in Ramallah,” Al-Jazeera, September 25, 2011, www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/09/2011925104155882960.html.
43.Ibid.
44.Tovah Lazaroff, Yaakov Katz, and Khaled Abu Toameh, “Obama Opposes Withholding Funds to the PA,” Jerusalem Post, October 4, 2011, www.jpost.com
/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=240434.
45.“Limitation on Contributions to the United Nations and Affiliated Organizations,” New York Times, June 20, 2012, http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf
/world/PLO-UN-legislation.pdf.
46.Luisa Blanchfield, “The UNESCO World Heritage Convention: Congressional Issues,” Congressional Research Service, July 20, 2011, www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row
/R40164.pdf.
47.Dan Perry and Don Melvin, “Europe Set for Key Palestine Role,” Associated Press, May 25, 2011, www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2011/05/25
/europe_set_for_key_palestine_role/.
48.“UNESCO Executive Board Recommends Palestinian Membership,” UNESCO, September 27, 2011, www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news
/moving_unesco_into_the_21st_century/.
49.Scott Shane and Steven Erlanger, “Palestinians Win a Vote on Bid to Join UNESCO,” New York Times, October 5, 2011, www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/world/middle
east/palestinians-win-initial-vote-on-unesco-bid.html.
50.“Palestinians Get UNESCO Seat as 107 Vote in Favour,” BBC, October 31, 2011, www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15518173.
51.Barak Ravid, “Netanyahu Mulls Gestures Toward Palestinians to Keep Peace Talks Going,” Haaretz, January 10, 2012, www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/netan
yahu-mulls-gestures-toward-palestinians-to-keep-peace-talks-going-1.406357.
52.“Bustling UN Security Council Welcomes Five New Members,” Agence France-Presse, January 1, 2012, www.france24.com/en/20120101-united-nations-diplo
macy-countries-join-arab-spring-un-security-council.
53.Barak Ravid, “Palestinians Plan Diplomatic Steps to Put Israel Under ‘International Siege,’” Haaretz, January 2, 2012, www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/palestin
ians-plan-diplomatic-steps-to-put-israel-under-international-siege-1.404973.
54.“Abbas Wants Jordan Meeting to Be Last,” Ma’an News Agency, January 25, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=455209.
55.“Palestine to Call for Vote on UN Membership, Says Foreign Minister,” WAFA, January 25, 2012, http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18814.
56.“Ashrawi to Ashton: Europe’s Commitment to Peace Is Being Tested,” WAFA, January 26, 2012, http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18825.
57.“Netanyahu Says Abbas ‘Shunned Peace,’” Sky News, February 14, 2012, www
.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=718110&vId=.
58.“Abbas to Ask Arab League for Peace Conference,” Jerusalem Post, February 12, 2012, www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=257503.
59.“Erekat: We Agreed With Qatar on a Plan to Move Towards the United Nations,” Palestine Press, March 22, 2012, www.palpress.co.uk/arabic/?action=detail&id
=42475.
60.“President Abbas: If You Do Not See Any Development With the Peace Process We Will Go to the United Nations,” Palestine Press, April 30, 2012, www.palpress
.co.uk/arabic/?action=detail&id=46491.
61.“Abbas to Resume Statehood Bid in UN: Official,” Xinhua, May 16, 2012, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-05/16/c_131592189.htm.
62.“Authority in a State of Frustration,” Ma’an News Agency, May 26, 2012, www
.maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=489409.
63.Asher Zieger, “Israel to Fight PA Request for Statehood Status at UN Conference,” Times of Israel, May 10, 2012, www.timesof
israel.com/israel-to-fight-pa
-request-for-state-status-at-un-conference/.
64.“Palestinians Seek Full Representation at Rio+20,” Agence France-Presse, June 16, 2012, www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jPnTNLQH-Qt2Z8svfDH
LAPKAF0uw?docId=CNG.57af47f3cbe2260c211d864cfe7f5c93.6d1.
65.“Obtaining Non-Member Status Eliminates Legitimacy of the Settlements,” Okaz (Saudi Arabia), June 10, 2012, www.okaz.com.sa/new/Issues/20120610
/Con20120610509549.htm.
66.Allison Good, “Palestinians Deny U.S. Aid Threat,” Foreign Policy, July 19, 2012, http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/07/19/palestinians_deny_us_aid
_threat.
67.“Decision to Go to the United Nations to Request Membership for Palestine Is Incomplete Without a Date,” Al-Hayat, July 23, 2012, http://mobile.alhayat.com
/content/1343059495414844500/Politics.
68.“Palestinians Debate Whether to Seek UN Recognition of ‘Palestine’ Before or After US Vote,” Associated Press, August 2, 2012, www.washingtonpost.com/world
/middle_east/palestinians-brace-for-us-israeli-repercussions-if-they-seek-un-recog
nition-document-shows/2012/08/02/gJQAG0DXRX_story.html.
69.William Bigelow, “Palestinians Seek Statehood Before U.S. Election,” Breitbart, August 3, 2012, www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/08/03/Palestinians-seek-state
hood-while-obama-can-help-them.
70.Raphael Ahren, “Israel Says It Will Free Prisoners, Let Palestinians Exploit Gaza Gas Field, If Abbas Abandons UN Statehood Bid,” Times of Israel, August 5, 2012, www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-intensifies-carrot-and-stick-efforts-to-prevent
-palestinian-un-statehood-bid/.
71.“Report: Netanyahu to Release Prisoners If UN Bid Scrapped,” Ma’an News Agency, August 6, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=510272.
72.“Abbas Says Going to UN Even If It Conflicts With Others’ Interests,” Ma’an News Agency, August 8, 2012, www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=510868.
73.Elior Levy, “Arab League to Present UN With New PA Bid?,” Ynet News, August 14, 2012, www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4268555,00.html.
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