Palestinians seek independent state in the UN on Facebook
Hanin Abu Baker, the 21-year-old girl from the West Bank city of
Ramallah, spends more hours than before in front of her computer surfing
the social website of Facebook on the internet to back the Palestinian
bid to the United Nations to request a recognition of a state.
Abu Baker and her fiance, who had moved to the state of California in
the United States two weeks ago, had built up together with a group of
Palestinian youths, who lives in the Palestinian territories and abroad,
a special group in Arabic called “September, a deserved merit.”
The Palestinians are determined to approach the United Nations on
Sept. 20, to request an international recognition of a full membership
of the state of Palestine, established on the Palestinian territories
occupied by Israel in 1967, in response to the stalled direct peace
talks with Israel.
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A Palestinian tailor sews national
flags to be used in the national campaign to promote for the
Palestinian bid in September to obtain statehood recognition
at the United Nations, at his workshop in the West Bank city
of Nablus, on Sept. 12, 2011. Xinhua |
The United States and Israel oppose the Palestinian bid to the UN,
although Israel refused to halt settlement construction in the West Bank
and east Jerusalem. Both Washington and Tel Aviv believe that the
Palestinian state can only be established though direct talks and signed
agreements and not through submitting a request to the UN.
The Palestinians are sticking to resuming the peace talks, based on
accepting the principle of the two-state solution and halting
settlement.
Abu Baker said she was happy for the success that the group she and
the others had established on Facebook. She cooperated and coordinated
with her colleagues to translate the page into other languages, such as
Hebrew, French, English and Spanish.
The young woman and a team of Palestinian youths are typing
attractive and encouraging sentences to support the group. She said she
kept copying and pasting statements and articles written by journalists,
intellectual writers on the bid to the UN to recognize the new
Palestinian state number 194.
“Our aim of establishing our page is to gather the largest support
inside and outside the Palestinian territories and gain the support of
other people all over the world,” said Abu Baker, who rarely left her
seat only to eat or to sleep, adding “the English edition of the page
was highly appreciated.”
Abu Baker, who studies in one of the Palestinian universities, added
comments to the comments of analysts and international experts in
international laws and politics. Visitors from the Arab region as well
as from the entire world also checked the page and expressed themselves
on what was written.
In addition to the page “September, a deserved merit,” other similar
groups were also established on Facebook, such as Palestine Deserves,
the People Want a Declaration in September, September, Palestine state
number 194. The pages related to September bid to the UN are increasing
every day.
Munir al-Jaghoub, a media committee coordinator of Fatah Party in the
West Bank, said the Palestinians are going for an unprecedented campaign
to gain their right of being recognized as an independent state, adding
“therefore we must use all possible means to make our voice reachable to
everyone.”
The Palestinian members of these pages are urging the people of other
countries to back the legal and peaceful Palestinian attitude, while
Israel on the other side is trying through large diplomatic and media
campaigns to stop the Palestinians from approaching the UN.
Al-Jaghoub said the symbols of these pages are pictures of the
Palestinian leaders. “The pictures of President Mahmoud Abbas, late
leader Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian flag and the building of the UN in
New York are included in the various pages established for the
Palestinian bid to the UN for international recognition,” said
al-Jaghoub. Both Abu Baker and al-Gaghoub affirmed that the campaign is
not seeking any kind of political affiliation, “it only seeks to make a
general Palestinian achievement that benefits all the people.” Xinhua
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