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Award winning journalist Gary Baumgarten hosts the News Talk Online show on Paltalk.com. He asks critical questions, and invites people from all around the world to talk directly to his newsmaker guests using Paltalk's voice over IP technology. Gary came to Paltalk as director of news and programming from CNN where he was the radio bureau chief and correspondent in New York for a decade, where he covered, among other things, the 9/11 attacks in New York and Hurricane Katrina. He was previously reporter and assistant news director at CBS all news radio station WWJ in Detroit. Prior to that he was managing editor at Detroit Radio News Service and a reporter for the Jackson (MI) Citizen-Patriot, the Detroit News and a number of weekly newspapers. Paltalk is the largest multimedia interactive program on the Internet with more than 4 million unique users. News Talk Online is also syndicated by CRN Digital Talk Radio to cable systems serving an additional 12 million households.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 9:27AM

UN vote could make Palestinian Authority insolvent

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Does Abbas really want what he's asking? Olivier Pacteau photo

By GARY BAUMGARTEN

The Palestinian Authority formally requests statehood status at the UN this week. The problem for the Palestinians is, they might not really like what they get if they win.

Actually, the situation isn’t all that dire for them, because the United States has pledged to veto a Security Council resolution recognizing a Palestinian state should one pass. So this may all just be for diplomatic show – to highlight the desires of the Palestinians for a state – while making the United States and Israel look bad.

At the end of the day, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas can go home with a diplomatic victory but without the responsibilities of running a nation. And with money from the United States still in hand.

On the other hand, should the U.S. renege on its promise, and should a Palestinian state be declared, the PA will be hard pressed to actually run a new government. Because the United States has told Abbas that it will withhold millions of dollars in aid should that happen.

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The Saudis will feed him, and the GCC. That's his bet.
Don Rich
September 19, 2011 09:31 AM
For a world recognized, viable, State with well defined borders, Abbas will gladly forego, and probably eschew, aid from the country that helps Israel underwrite so much Arab oppression.
UncleChri
September 19, 2011 11:11 AM
He's also bargaining, since to define the borders is a rather serious thing in international legal terms, since, someone could call that an occupation of a state, an act against international peace, and therefore making it lawful to use force to prevent.
Don Rich
September 19, 2011 11:21 AM
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has promised "a no-Jew Palestine" should the UN statehood go through. While Jews and Palestinians live shoulder to shoulder peaceably in Israel, the Palestinian state vows to continue bombing Israel. They want to erradicate Israel as much as Iran does.
Deborah Young
September 19, 2011 01:59 PM