Mr. Netanyahu's office seemed eager to sound open to renewing talks even after Mr. Abbas presents his membership request letter to the United Nations.
The office address, which was a broom closet with a mail slot, near 68th Street, received bags of letters, equally divided among membership requests and indignant protests.
But a vote on the membership request itself — which was intended by the Palestinians to represent international recognition of statehood — might even be skipped if none of the 15 Security Council members demands one.
The most recent polls suggest independence does not yet have clear majority support, but SNP sources and activists within Women for Independence WFII) said there had been a surge in membership requests on Friday, with people offering to campaign and donating money.
"Screening new membership requests requires time and legwork for admins – particularly for groups built around focused passions or purpose.
These include Group analytics, membership request filtering, removed member clean-up, scheduled posts and group-to-group linking.
It is a free election campaign and creates a confusing atmosphere at a time when we want a vote [on the forthcoming Palestinian UN membership request].
Though it takes tons of time and can be a boring chore, human admins who filter through membership requests know when to let someone slide.
Membership Request Filtering: Facebook already launched the ability to gate Group membership with a screening questionnaire to make sure the potential admit isn't a troll or will dilute the community.
The problems came to a head in November when the OpenStreetMap Foundation's board of directors rejected membership requests for "more than 100 applicants" from GlobalLogic, thereby restricting the number of outsourced representatives working on maps for Grab and other clients of the agency.
Furthermore, Hungary supported the Croatian NATO membership request and Croatian accession to the European Union.
