Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: il fallimento di Abbas - e perche' non ne parla nessuno.

http://wires.univision.com/english/article/2011-12-03/palestinian-deadlocked-un-bid-leaves
 
 
    The Palestinian bid for membership of the United Nations, launched
amid fanfare in September, has hit a dead end and left the major
powers wondering if president Mahmud Abbas has a strategy.
    The Palestinian leadership shows no sign of calling for a vote on
the application for full membership at the UN Security Council and
after getting acceptance by UNESCO there has been no followup to other
international agencies.
    Abbas told the UN General Assembly how the bid for international
recognition of a Palestinian state was born out of frustration at what
he considers Israel's deliberate blocking of the peace process.
    But many experts call the campaign a failure.
    "They did not get the ... votes at the Security Council and so I
think that bid basically has failed," said David Makovsky, director of
the peace process project at the Washington Institute for Near East
Policy, a think tank.
    The Palestinians had to get nine votes from the 15 Security
Council members, but too many said they would abstain or oppose the
bid. Even if they had succeeded, the United States had made it clear
it would veto the bid.
    The Palestinians may be holding back because they do not want to
further risk their relations with President Barack Obama's
administration, Makovsky told AFP.
    Philip Wilcox, a scholar with the Middle East Institute and former
US diplomat with special responsibility for Middle East affairs, also
called the Palestinian a "failure" -- for now.
    "I don't think they will ask for a vote unless they are sure to
get nine votes," Wilcox said.
    The Security Council's new members committee could not agree on a
united recommendation on the Palestinian application and for the past
month the Council has been waiting for a sign from the Palestinian
leadership on their next move.
    Abbas could also decide to seek a super-observer status at the UN
General Assembly where a majority is virtually guaranteed but the
prize would have much less status than full membership.
    Palestinian diplomats at the United Nations say they are waiting
for instructions from Ramallah. Western envoys at the UN say they have
been told not to take any action until Abbas decides.
    "We are really not sure what the Palestinian strategy is and
whether they have one," one senior Western diplomat said.
    Vitaly Churkin, Russian envoy to the UN and president of the
Security Council for December, indicated that he too is in the dark,
when asked at a press conference on Friday.
 
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It is a good article, showing a side of the PA that we rarely see.
And that is the problem.
Even though this article was released by AFP last night, I found it
only at two news sites: Asia One and Univision. (I only noticed it at
all because it was mentioned prominently in Jordan's Al Ghad in
Arabic, where the readers presictably rated it "bad.")
Wire services send out articles to their client newspapers and other
media. The editors at the media outlets decide whether to include
these stories in their collection of articles or not.
This article is nearly invisible on news sites that choose hundreds of
other articles a day from AFP.
The reason? It seems to be because it contradicts the prevailing
narrative of an ascendant Palestinian Authority with its inevitable
march towards statehood and respectability.
Journalists are lazy. They have a pack mentality that all but ensures
that original reporting and analysis is suppressed in favor of
following easy-to-understand snapshot narratives.
But even more lazy are editors. When given a chance to show an
alternative to the ever-present memes, they will very often choose to
ignore it. It is too hard to explain, it might bring in complaints, it
contradicts the other narratives that they so lovingly embrace. Who
needs the headaches?
Abbas bet his people on statehood. He lost. He has no Plan B. But the
media which has portrayed him as a moderate, pragmatic hero cannot
bear to explain to their readers that they were wrong and that Abbas
is more interested in stunts than negotiations and compromise.
Only when events occur that they cannot ignore will editors start to
accept a new narrative. But it has to be easy to understand, with a
clear hero and a clear villain, or else they fear their readers will
run away. Short of an Abbas sex scandal, it is easier to just let the
statehood story die, and keep the image of a peaceful and moderate
Abbas pristine for the next time he butts heads with the intransigent,
hardline Israeli leader.
 
 
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/12/abbas-has-no-strategy-and-another-type.html
 

 amid fanfare in September
 
Ah già, che ne è stato?
E' stato un po' come la flottiglia.
Come le navi di Erdogan.
 
Dev'esserci stata un'epidemia di torcicolli.
 
-- 
Quando ti incontro per la strada ti darei calci nei denti. Ma forse non 
li senti.
E' meglio se ti rullo di kartoni (kartoni).

 Dev'esserci stata un'epidemia di torcicolli.
 
pero' il vino fa buon sangue.

 wrote:
 
Qui c'era il post di uno che andava in estasi prevedendo il successo
di Abu Mazen all'ONU. E' andata male, e lui la ha presa malissimo.


Non seguo, ma a giudicare dalle grida scomposte fuori dalla porta sembra
una situazione penosa
 
 
-- 
recoil is insignificant when there is a tiger on the head of your elephant

 wrote:
 
Qui c'era un altro post del solito ubriacone incazzato con Israele;
non riesce a capire che uno Stato da' la cittadinanza a chi cavolo gli
pare.

 wrote:
 
qui c'era il post di uno che non riesce a dire shit.