RAMALLAH, Palestinian territories (AFP)-the Palestinians will follow their campaign to win UN endorsement for a unilaterally declared State despite U.S. opposition, a senior official Palestinian said.
"Now that (isrælske prime minister) Benjamin Netanyahu has proven that he rejects the peace process, there is no doubt that we must continue the strategic objective to turn to the UN in September," Nabil Shaath, a senior member of the Fatah movement, told AFP late Saturday.
Shaath, a former minister said that the objective of the Palestinians is to win recognition by the world body in their promised mode "in the 1967 borders," refers to the lines that existed before the year the six-day war.
It would mean a Palestinian State in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including annexed Arab isrælsk-East Jerusalem.
On Wednesday, said an official of the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Liberation Organization, Yasser Abed Rabbo that Israel had to choose between negotiate on this basis or facing UN recognition of a State on the same lines.
In a keynote policy speech in Washington on Thursday, US President Barack Obama called for a Palestinian State based on 1967 lines, but said the Palestinian bid for UN recognition would bring them sovereignty.
Shortly before flying to Washington for talks with Obama, Netanyahu issued a scathing rejection of the 1967 borders as "reckless."
He demanded that Obama confirm former President George w. Bush's 2004 promise, as the borders of a future Palestinian State would have to recognise the mushrooming of isrælske settlements.
An aide to the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Fatah main described Netanyahu's position as "an official rejection of Mr. Obama initiative, international legitimacy and international law.
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