Sentence examples for any statehood from inspiring English sources
In a speech, he declared that Russia's enormous nuclear capability was a "reality," and said that Kazakhstan "never had any statehood," a chilling reminder of a claim he once made to former President George W. Bush that Ukraine was not a "real country".
In a speech, he declared that Russia's enormous nuclear capability was a "reality," and said that Kazakhstan "never had any statehood," a chilling reminder of a claim he once made to former President George W. Bush that Ukraine was not a "real country". John Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who now is with the Atlantic Council, said the Russian leader's bravado was a blunder.
One area of particular contention is the Jordan Valley, the fertile strip of West Bank land along the border with Jordan, where Israel says it must retain a presence for strategic reasons under any future statehood agreement with the Palestinians.
The "pro-Israel" lobby has cowboyed up for the fight against any Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations this fall.
Never mind the lack of freedom, of sovereignty, of any semblance of statehood or territorial contiguity.
3. Any form of statehood would limit Israel's ability to search out bomb factories and arrest terrorist leaders.
But passage of the resolution — which would allow the Palestinians to try to join the International Criminal Court, where they might be able to bring cases against Israel — would not get the Palestinians any closer to statehood.
Israel, the United States, the Palestinians and the entire region will pay a high price if Israel merely settles more firmly into the role of occupier over a growing Palestinian population that is left indefinitely without any hope of statehood and self-rule.
But she added that she was "absolutely opposed to any unilateral declaration of statehood" by the Palestinians.
It is reported that Israeli-American relations are "strained" and that Russia and China would veto any Palestinian request for statehood.
And the gambit won't even get the Palestinian Authority any closer to actual statehood, despite what the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, called its "powerful symbolism".
