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Breaking: UN General Assembly Recognizes Palestine as 'Non-Member State'

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kristina3711/29/2012 2:43:16 pm PST

re: #3 Killgore Trout

Hamas isn’t going to be happy about that

While I could be wrong, this news may be less significant than what we may think. I think that there definitely must be an independent Palestinian state, and I think that eventually it will happen. But IMO this event will not in any way make it closer to actually happening.

Its even probable that Abbas knows that.

So why did he push for this? In the constant power struggle between Abbas & his allies, and Hamas, Hamas is gaining more popularity . So, my guess is that the real reason that Abbas did this is probably because he needed a “victory” over Hamas— it was done in a attempt to improve his relative standing in the eyes of the Palestinians (and in the rest of the Arab world as well). He needs to “prove” that he is doing as much (or more) for the Palestinians than Hamas is doing.

So I believe that this is mainly “politics”— unlike Hamas, Abbas actually does sincerely want an independent state, but he pushed for this for other reasons.