Palestinian institutions ready for statehood: U.N

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority is ready to run an independent state but will struggle to make further institutional progress due to the restrictions of the Israeli occupation, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

The U.N. report followed equally upbeat assessments of the PA’s nation-building achievements released over the past week by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

The positive statements comes before a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday of aid donor countries which will review Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s drive to construct the framework of a state by mid-2011.

“In six areas where the U.N. is most engaged, governmental functions are now sufficient for a functioning government of a state,” said the report, entitled “Palestinian State-building: A Decisive Period.”

It listed the six areas as rule of law and human rights; livelihoods; education and culture; health; social protection; and infrastructure and water.

I hadn’t realized the PA was now a champion of justice, aside from their brand of Islamic justice.

However, it said the PA could not make significant further advances given the continued Israeli occupation of much of the West Bank and a breakdown in Middle East peace talks.

“Measures of occupation which stifle Palestinian life need to be fundamentally rolled back by more far reaching Israeli actions to match the progress of the state-building program,” the report said.

Direct negotiations aimed at ending the decades-old conflict broke down last September following a dispute over continued Jewish settlement building on the West Bank.

Given the impasse, Palestinian leaders aim to ask the United Nations General Assembly in September for recognition of statehood on all of the territory Israel occupied in 1967, including Gaza — over which the PA has no control.

What a total and complete joke! The UN and this current motion. The PA and Salaam Fayyad, who is not the worst person to be trying to achieve statehood for the Pals, NEED TO DESTROY HAMAS TO DEMONSTRATE THEY ARE THE GOVT OF THE PALESTINIANS, and that’s all there is to it. By taking such action, every Israeli will understand they have just witnessed David Ben Gurion crushing Menachim Begin and the Irgun and Stern Gangs. Until then, there is little to be achieved EXCEPT the destruction of Israel.

Which of course, remains the real agenda.

AT THE UN.

That shitty little country is just too much trouble, you see.