Haaretz reports:
The European Union countries have foiled a PLO initiative to challenge Israel’s credentials at the UN, specifically Israel’s right to represent the territories.Hat tip: SdeW.Early this week the PLO delegation to the UN distributed a draft resolution that said: “The PLO representative in the UN is the representative of the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including East Jerusalem.”
The resolution was meant to be voted on in the General Assembly on Wednesday, in a routine affirmation of the credentials of countries represented in the UN. But the EU was vehemently opposed to the resolution, regarding it as an attempt to undermine Israel’s legitimacy.