10-9-2014 PLO says global public opinion backs recognizing Palestine Reuters

 http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/09/us-palestinians-uk-recognition-idUSKCN0HY15G20141009?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

 

One hundred and thirty-eight countries approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine in a vote at the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 but most European Union countries, including Britain, have yet to give official recognition...

A motion due for debate in Britain's lower house of Parliament on Oct. 13 will ask lawmakers whether they believe the government should recognize the state of Palestine…

…Palestinians believe Britain bears a unique role in their plight, as it ran a colonial mandate over what is now Israel and occupied Palestinian lands from the end of the First World War, blessing a Jewish homeland among the native Arabs and allowing mass Jewish immigration there, mostly from European countries...

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