Palestinians reconsider US ties after membership veto

The Palestinian Power will “reevaluate” its relationship with the US after Washington rejected a Palestinian bid for full UN participation recently, president Mahmud Abbas said on Saturday.

“The Palestinian authority will reevaluate respective relations with the US to guarantee the insurance of our kin’s advantages, our objective, and our privileges,” Abbas told the authority Palestinian news organization Wafa.

Wafa said his comments came “closely following the US’s utilization of blackball power” at the UN Security Chamber.

Thursday’s vote saw 12 nations on the Chamber back a goal suggesting full Palestinian participation and two — England and Switzerland — go without. Just the US, Israel’s staunchest partner, casted a ballot against, utilizing its denial to obstruct the goal.

Abbas said the Palestinian initiative will “foster another procedure to safeguard Palestinian public choices freely and follow a Palestinian plan instead of an American vision or territorial plans”.

He said Palestinians would “not remain prisoner to approaches that have demonstrated their disappointment and have been presented to the whole world”.

Also, he said the position of the US government had “produced exceptional annoyance among the Palestinian public and the area’s populaces, possibly pushing the district towards additional unsteadiness, confusion and psychological warfare”.