Moscow – Russia announced on Sunday that it intends to support the Palestinian Authority’s draft resolution to the UN Security Council mandating an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, according to Russian news media.
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“I cannot see any reasons to cavil about this text, or about Palestinian people’s wish to say once again ‘let’s have a look at this situation, in the UN framework’,” Moscow’s deputy foreign minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, told RIA Novosti. “So we say [to Palestinians], if you find one option or another suitable, then we will support you as friends. You know better what you need and how to achieve it. We think that the Palestinian case is fair, meaning that people have a right to self-determination, up to establishing their state.”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas vowed last month to join the International Criminal Court at The Hague in the event that his efforts at the UN Security Council to set a timetable forcing the withdrawal of Israel to the pre-1967 lines should fail.
The Bethlehem-based Ma’an News Agency quoted Abbas as telling reporters in Ramallah: “We started work on the resolution to get a state on the ’67 borders with east Jerusalem as its capital which we will submit to the Security Council.”
He said under the plan, “the occupation would be ended in two or three years.”
Abbas said he would submit the plan, mandating an Israeli withdrawal within a defined time frame, in two to three weeks to the UN Security Council. Should the US choose to veto the resolution, Abbas said he would then go the ICC route, which could potentially lead to a war crimes probe against Israel, and even against the Palestinians themselves.
Russia always likes to shake things up.
That’s why they support Syria as well.
Shameful
They fought a war in 1948 because they didn’t want a JEWISH STATE .now they want the U.N. to give them land that they lost in a war.The same U.N. that let hamas place rockets on their buildings.
Mr Putin – maybe it’s time for you to get your own house in order before you dictate to others what they should or should not do. What a hypocrite.
Russia hates Israel. Dog bites man, not news
Posts 1 – 5 are right! Russia’s new-found love affair with “self-determination” would logically reduce the Russian Federation to about 9% of its present size. Also, no Arab state is interested in real self-determination, so (as usual) such “friendliness” will ultimately work against the “Palestinians”.