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Israel got a state in 1947, but Palestine did not because Palestinians and Arabs rejected the UN resolution at the time

The EU should not be complicit in Abbas' mistake

The Palestinians are about to compound their 1947 UN blunder with yet another misstep at the world body. No EU country should be complicit in this mistake.\n \nThe war between Hamas and Israel has barely ended, but the Palestinians are already off to their next battle - this time on the diplomatic front.

Having been marginalised by the Gaza conflict, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas remains determined to ask the United Nations General Assembly for non-member observer ...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Israel got a state in 1947, but Palestine did not because Palestinians and Arabs rejected the UN resolution at the time

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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