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Palestinians Plan Diplomatic Steps to Put Israel under "International Siege"
(Ha'aretz) Barak Ravid - According to an Israeli Foreign Ministry document, Fatah Central Committee member Nabil Sha'ath has said that 2012 "will be the start of an unprecedented diplomatic campaign on the part of the Palestinian leadership, and it will be a year of pressure on Israel that will put it under a real international siege....The campaign will be similar to the one waged against apartheid in South Africa." The Palestinian campaign may include asking the UN Security Council to condemn settlement construction and impose international sanctions on Israel; urging the International Criminal Court in The Hague to try Israel for war crimes related to the 2009 Gaza Operation, and encouraging Palestinians to file lawsuits against Israel in Western courts; convening the signatories of the Geneva Convention to discuss the construction of Israeli communities in the West Bank; sending a UN fact-finding committee to look into the settlement issue; renewing efforts in the UN Security Council to secure full membership; and organizing mass rallies against Israel in the West Bank.