{"id":16046,"date":"2011-09-18T04:18:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T10:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16046"},"modified":"2011-09-18T04:18:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T10:18:40","slug":"joseph-massad-state-of-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16046","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Massad: State of recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Whether the UN grants the PA status as a state or refuses to do so, either outcome will be in Israel&#8217;s interest.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Massad<br \/>\n15 Sep 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is at stake in Barack Obama&#8217;s vehement refusal to recognise Palestine as a mini-state with a disfigured geography and no sovereignty, and his urging the world community not to recognise it while threatening the Palestinians with retribution? What is the relationship between Obama&#8217;s refusal to recognise Palestine and his insistence on recognising Israel&#8217;s right to be a &#8220;Jewish state&#8221; and his demand that the Palestinians and Arab countries follow suit?<\/p>\n<p>It is important to stress at the outset that whether the UN grants the Palestinian Authority (PA) the government of a state under occupation and observer status as a state or refuses to do so, either outcome will be in the interest of Israel. For the only game in town has always been Israel&#8217;s interests, and it is clear that whatever strategy garners international support, with or without US and Israeli approval, must guarantee Israeli interests a priori. The UN vote is a case in point.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/indepth\/opinion\/2011\/09\/20119158427939481.html\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;State of recognition&#8221; by Joseph Massad<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether the UN grants the PA status as a state or refuses to do so, either outcome will be in Israel&#8217;s interest. Joseph Massad 15 Sep 2011 What is at stake in Barack Obama&#8217;s vehement refusal to recognise Palestine as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16046\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4aO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16047,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions\/16047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}