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But the Kurdish community in Iraq, represented by the Kurdish Regional Government, has a real shot at statehood.
The US and Turkish governments agree on distinguishing the Kurds in Iraq from those in Turkey, for whom statehood is not an option.
Although the parliament was not completely stripped of its ability to control the executive, it lost most of its influence and became a stronghold of the opposition to the existing system of power and statehood.
The delegates overwhelmingly agreed that the movement must keep open the option of returning underground if negotiations for statehood fail, while being ready to become a political party if a Palestinian state is born.
Israelis justified their stance with this question: Just when did the Palestinians become a nation deserving of statehood?
More importantly, the Palestinian leadership must reshape and reunite its polity to face the challenge of statehood.
Yemen, too, is beset by tribal feuding and a sectarian divide that pose challenges to statehood.
The PLO embodies Palestinian national aspirations for independence and statehood.
Rarely in history has a national movement marched to its Promised Land with such a brilliant display of diplomatic savoir-faire and military skill as the Zionists did on their way to statehood.
The crisis of the Jewish conscience in the traumatic transition from Holocaust to statehood has not yet been fully overcome.
They survived in order to resolve what for too long has looked like an insoluble conundrum: legitimizing Jewish statehood in the eyes of those who consider themselves its victims.
The Palestinians will now pursue with renewed determination and vigor a path to statehood through unilateral recognition.
Making matters worse, NATO engagement in the Western Balkans – a fragmented region that continues to struggle with issues of statehood, the rule of law, and inequality – remains inadequate, putting an already unstable part of Europe at considerable risk.
Yes, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ceded Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 (to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav, which unified Ukraine and Russia); and, yes, Boris Yeltsin confirmed Crimea’s status during a period of fraught negotiations to dissolve the Soviet Union and secure Russia’s own statehood.
The PA asked to join the ICC for two reasons: to assert statehood (only states can be members of the ICC), and to use the court to investigate allegations of war crimes committed by Israeli forces in the West Bank and Gaza.
Israel appears most agitated about the implications of ICC membership for Palestinian statehood.
But it is worth recalling that attaining statehood is a gradual process, resulting from recognition by other states and international organizations.
Israelis also find satisfaction in the relative prosperity of the West Bank, where order and stability are being secured by well-trained security forces, in line with Prime Minister’s Salam Fayyad’s meticulous bottom-up construction of Palestinian statehood.
As for the Palestinians, the gap between the colossal tragedy of the Nakbah (the lost war at Israel’s founding) and the poverty of a territorial solution that sandwiches their demilitarized mini-state between Israel and Jordan – neither suffering from excessive love for Palestinian statehood – is bound to remain an open wound.
Then again, the idea of Palestinian statehood is not central to Hamas’s worldview, in which the strategic objective is the ultimate victory of Islam.
This is no longer the case: two days before the election, Netanyahu explicitly vowed that his government would never allow Palestinian statehood.
With statehood seemingly out of reach, it will be only a matter of time before large numbers of Palestinians begin demanding the right to vote in Israeli elections.
Only 43% of Catalonia’s population voted in the referendum, which even Barcelona’s mayor, Ada Colau, a supporter of statehood, has questioned as a foundation for a unilateral declaration of independence.
In Fayyad’s vision, Palestinians, who bear the brunt of the occupation and are in a greater hurry than the Israelis are to be free of it, are to accept a peace strategy that aims at realizing statehood.
Then came a persistent tendency to judge the behavior of states across the Maghreb and the Levant by whether or not they would make diplomatic (or other) trouble over Israel’s attitude toward Palestine and the latter’s claim to viable statehood.
Unfortunately, it is highly unlikely, leaving a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation as the last remaining hope for Palestinian statehood.
Yet Russia’s flagrant and unapologetic violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity has not only poisoned relations with Kyiv; it also implicitly threatens prospective EEU members, especially Kazakhstan, whose independent statehood Putin has openly questioned.
And the Europeanization of Germany’s politics filled – and still fills – the civilization gap embodied in German statehood.
Likewise, the failure of Chechnya, Biafra, Tibet, or the Kurdish areas of the Middle East to reach independent statehood is attributable entirely to their military impotence.
For example, French President Nicolas Sarkozy preempted a common European position on the Palestinian statehood bid at the UN in September.
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