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Source: http://fathomjournal.org/assessing-the-palestinian-authoritys-foreign-policy/
Has Abbas' Internationalization Strategy Set the Palestinians on the Path to Statehood?
(Fathom-BICOM) Grant Rumley and Adam Rasgon - Abbas' campaign to internationalize the conflict with Israel has yielded mixed results. On the one hand, he has crystalized new alliances with European, Asian, and South American countries and upgraded Palestinian status at the UN. On the other hand, raising a Palestinian flag at Turtle Bay or joining the UN Convention on Biological Diversity has hardly changed the facts on the ground for many Palestinians. The French conference may lead to another summit and ultimately a push at the Security Council, but such a plan is likely to only antagonize Israel and thus amount to little more than another data point in the Palestinians' failed diplomatic campaign for statehood. Grant Rumley is a research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Adam Rasgon is an independent journalist.