{"id":7165,"date":"2011-10-04T07:25:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T23:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2011\/10\/dap-supports-palestinian-statehood\/"},"modified":"2011-10-04T07:25:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T23:25:12","slug":"dap-supports-palestinian-statehood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/dap-supports-palestinian-statehood\/","title":{"rendered":"DAP supports Palestinian statehood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-A0ISAIGOBHY\/Toq2WUuN2vI\/AAAAAAAAHLE\/ziSTV1I_E9A\/01102011%252520064.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"352\" height=\"230\" style=\"float: left;\" \/>The DAP stands in support of current efforts by Mahmoud Abbas, as  leader of the Palestinian Authority, to seek full membership for a  Palestinian State at the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>But we also believe that the quest for statehood through legal  means must be accompanied by actual concrete changes on the part of the  Israeli authority.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the DAP also calls for the immediate cessation of any  settlement-building beyond the 1967 border, as was mandated by United  Nations Security Council Resolution 465 which was passed in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution called Israel to &#8220;dismantle the existing  settlements&#8221; while emphasizing that all attempts to alter the geography  and demography of the occupied territories in 1967 have &#8220;no legal  validity&#8221; and are thus in direct violation of International Law. It  should be enforced by all means available as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian struggle for statehood must proceed through legal  and formal means but real progress cannot occur without similar gestures  of goodwill from Israel as a long time partner in the peace process. It  can demonstrate its goodwill by playing its part to concretely enforce  UNSC Resolution 465.<\/p>\n<p>It is the collective responsibility of this generation to see through peace in Middle East. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><em>** Media statement by Liew Chin Tong<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> DAP International Secretary &amp; MP for Bukit Bendera (Pcture &#8211; Chin Tong greeted by PAS No. 2 Mad Sabu during 60th PAS Annivesary)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><em> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DAP stands in support of current efforts by Mahmoud Abbas, as leader of the Palestinian Authority, to seek full membership for a Palestinian State at the United Nations. But we also believe that the quest for statehood through legal means must be accompanied by actual concrete changes on the part of the Israeli authority. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}