{"id":3891,"date":"2012-11-26T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2012-11-26T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:38:30","slug":"senators-cardin-collins-warn-abbas-about-u-n-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/senators-cardin-collins-warn-abbas-about-u-n-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Cardin, Collins warn Abbas about U.N. bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Susan Collins sent a letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas opposing any unilateral attempts to pursue non-member state status at the United Nations General Assembly. The letter, sent Nov. 21, said that &#8220;Palestinian statehood can only be realized as a result of a broader peace agreement negotiated with the Israelis, not through unilateral measures at the United Nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cardin (D-MD) and Collins (R-ME), who co-authored a Senate resolution denouncing the statehood bid which passed unanimously in June and was co-sponsored by 90 senators, also warned Abbas that \u201cany such efforts may cause consequences in regards to U.S. policy and foreign aid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A bid in the General Assembly is likely to be approved. Last year, the United States used its veto to prevent a similar statehood bid in the U.N. Security Council. No country has a veto in the General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in announcing a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza on Nov. 21 in Cairo, said the next steps include moving toward a &#8220;comprehensive peace&#8221; between Israel and the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, on the same day said at the Security Council that the United States &#8220;view(s) unilateral steps, including the bid for upgraded status to statehood &#8212; observer state status at the General Assembly &#8212; to be counterproductive and not take us closer to that goal, and, therefore, we strongly oppose it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Senators%20Cardin%2C%20Collins%20warn%20Abbas%20about%20U.N.%20bid\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,25],"tags":[1281,8790,8795,8788,1180,1283,1282,834],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3892,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions\/3892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}