Israel's foreign ministry, however, was quick to issue a statement criticising the vote, insisting that Palestinian statehood should come about only as a result of negotiations with Israel.
A recent visit to Hollywood, where Strauss talked about statehood with stars like Mario Van Peebles, Evan Handler, Kate Walsh, Tim Daly and Omar Epps, brought new supporters into the fold.
All the Palestinian efforts in the West Bank are geared to statehood within about a year.
Opponents and former allies questioned whether Mr. Olmert had enough focus or moral authority to continue running the affairs of state, which include delicate negotiations with the Palestinians over statehood, decisions about how to deal with Hamas and indirect peace talks with Syria over the Golan Heights.
Arguments about statehood are, in any event, just a proxy for arguments about power and justice.
The early 1900s brought a vision for the state of Texlahoma, according to Michael J. Trinklein, who wrote "Lost States," a book about statehood proposals.
There is in the Congress some proposal to eliminate or prevent the use of aid to the Palestinians if they decide unilaterally to declare about statehood.
The mosque's white heroes' mausoleum evokes the historic practice of placing distinguished burial chambers within mosques but, in this case, it's adapted to Malaysian ideas about statehood.
While political actors argue about statehood and alliances, most regular people on both sides of the divide simply need income, healthcare and safety, and in that way they continue to be similar.
According to the Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations, by the middle of this century, "it is likely that the nature of statehood and assumptions about national sovereignty will have evolved in response to global needs and to an enlarged sense of world community" (quoted in Baratta 2004, 527).
