No issue is worth archiving more then one focusing on the need for Palestine's call for Statehood.

Following statehood bid, Abbas seeks to change Oslo Accords "We want to reopen the Paris Agreement and make changes to it," Abbas told reporters. "The agreement is not fair and there are restrictions on Palestinians that prevent our economy from growing and prospering. The Paris Agreement does not give us the opportunity to develop our economy and our country."

All eyes on the "“Quartet” — the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia."

President Abbas has said “we will not deal with any initiative” that does not demand a halt to Israeli settlement construction or negotiations based on borders before the 1967 war, when Israel captured land the Palestinians claim for their state. The unilateral bid for statehood and U.N. membership reflects deep-seated Palestinian exasperation over 44 years of Israeli occupation. Palestinians are hoping that an upgrade in their international status would give them more clout in any future talks with Israel.

Note: The US does not have veto power in the UNESCO forum.  Unfortunately  "Following a US law passed in the 1990s, America says it would cut funding to any UN body that admitted Palestine as a full member". [ That amounts to US $70m a year - over 20% of Unesco's entire budget.] Tell me this is why the United Nations was set up or that it is the way the US as a world leader ought to behave on the international forum. In defiance of fierce pressure from the US and Israel, 107 out of 194 members of the UN body for education, science and culture has backed the Palestinian request. Fourteen countries however voted against membership, including Australia  while 52 abstained. Irina Bokova, the Unesco director-general warned against US “disengagement” from the body, arguing that UNESCO was supporting “core US interests”, for example by managing and funding large-scale education projects in Iraq and Afghanistan. Interestly; Palestinian membership of UNESCO  will shine a fresh light on the vexed issue of who should control some of the most famous – and most deeply revered – monuments in the world. Interviews with Hanan Ashrawi - Executive committee member, Palestinian Liberation Organization and Sydney Peace Prize laureate. Next month, the UN Security Council will vote on whether to grant the Palestinians full UN membership.
	Washington boycotted UNESCO from 1984 to 2003 over what the State Department called "growing disparity between US foreign policy and UNESCO goals". Despite the 20-year US boycott, President Barack Obama now considers UNESCO a strategic interest and Washington sees it as a useful multilateral way to spread certain Western values.  [Whatever that means? With this kind of power-flex and manipulation one wonders what is meant by "Western Values"..... ]
	Time for a new World conference on Palestine.  20 years after the launch of the Madrid Peace Conference, Hanan Ashrawi, a leading member of the Palestinian delegation, says that the time has come for another world peace conference on the Middle East. Reflecting on the past 20 years, Hanan Ashrawi said, historically speaking...."Israel has had its way and today it is enjoying a shocking impunity "with a clear US collusion", as Ashrawi noted. "It is tragic wha t has happened." "Encountering Peace: Unintended consequences". An excellent article by Gershon Baskin. This is what is counter-productive: Palestine's Internet Services sabotaged. Regardless  of what the small narrow mind of the editor of the Australian news believes, the world will be at war with itself until it chooses to deliver some equity at the bottom end as well as the top. Take this illegal act for example.... "Israel also imposed a temporary halt on the transfer of tax revenues which it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) pending a final decision on whether to impose a long-term freeze. Israel collects about £630m a year in VAT and customs revenues which it passes on to the PA." [Appalling don't you think?]  If this happened anywhere else there would be outrage. International politics has hardly moved on since the Second World War. All humanitarian pledges forgotten, principals and values conveniently and selectively erased resorting to cross-border bi-lateral gangs. There seems to be no leader free enough to make sense. The speeches of the Queen in our region was nearly the closest. Trust spoilt. No more then bully tactics, submission and force on the table. Hope lost for citizens everywhere as fingers point crooked - tarnished and stained by disorganized versions of intimidation through the gap of markets and politics.This is what we expect from dictators, not leaders grandstanding.... claiming to uphold"peace" or at least some sense of  democracy. Link this to the people of Greece and the other forums current and we see little effort to consider what is true through the spherical heart, mustards and cresses.