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Source: UN won’t advance Palestinian statehood bid until diplomacy option exhausted – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.

United Nations panel considering Palestinian application for full UN membership will drag on dealing with technical matters for several weeks, says a senior Western diplomat.

Hamas: ‘Resistance’ against Israel is only option left for Palestinians – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshal told an international conference in Iran on Saturday that “resistance” was the only option left for the Palestinians.   Meshal was addressing the “5th International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Intifada” in Iran’s capital Tehran..

Palestinian Statehood: Where Do We Go from Here? – By Hussein Ibish | Foreign Policy.

In a perfunctory meeting on Wednesday morning, Sept. 28, as expected, and per its usual procedure for dealing with would-be new United Nations members since the late 1960s, the Security Council referred the Palestinian application to one of its standing committees. The committee — which meets and votes in secret and requires unanimity to refer the matter back to the Security Council — is scheduled to begin considering the application on Friday morning…