President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
symbolically hoisted the Paleostinian flag at the headquarters of the UN cultural agency on Tuesday calling it the first step to international recognition for Paleostine.
Some 50 diplomatic guests watched as Abbas lifted the flag while the Paleostinian national anthem was played at UNESCO's headquarters in Gay Paree, through biting wind and pouring rain. "It is moving to see our flag raised and for it to be flying in this beautiful city of Gay Paree among all the other states. This bodes well for Paleostine becoming a member of other international institutions," Abbas told UNESCO ambassadors.
The Paleostinians won admission to the United Nations
...Parkinson's Law on an international scale...
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in October, a move that prompted the United States to cut off funding to the agency. Abbas said they intended to apply to 16 other international institutions for full membership. The UNESCO vote was a diplomatic victory for Abbas, who in the absence of peace talks with Israel has pushed for recognition of a Paleostinian state at the United Nations, a move opposed by the Jewish state and by Washington. "Israel regrets that an organization responsible for education and science was at the heart of making a decision based on science fiction by integrating an entity that has no legal status as a state," the Israeli embassy in Gay Paree said.
In a move that has split the UN Security Council, Abbas is pressing for statehood without waiting any longer for a breakthrough in negotiations with Israel on a peace treaty to end the 63-year-old Middle East conflict. "We welcome any step that bolsters the Paleostinian entity and demand the international community break its silence on the Israeli occupation, end its bias and recognize the full rights of the Paleostinian people," said Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, head of the Hamas administration in Gazoo which is a rival of Abbas' Fatah.