The Palestinian Authority practices “I know you are, but what am I?” diplomacy, in a laughable new announcement that they have the “right” to unilaterally declare themselves a state: Palestinians Insist on Right to Declare State.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A top Palestinian decision-making body on Saturday voiced its right to unilaterally declare a state in the West Bank and Gaza amid Israeli threats to take stand-alone measures of its own.

The executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in a Friday meeting, also named Arab East Jerusalem, seized by Israel in 1967 and annexed in a move rejected internationally, as the capital of a Palestinian state.

“The Palestinian leadership, in line with international legitimacy and signed agreements…has the right to declare a independent democratic Palestine on all the territories that were occupied (by Israel) since 1967,” the PLO executive committee said in a statement.