{"id":525,"date":"2011-09-23T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=525"},"modified":"2011-09-23T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:37:58","slug":"bishop-hanson-to-obama-dont-block-palestinian-statehood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/bishop-hanson-to-obama-dont-block-palestinian-statehood\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Hanson to Obama:  Don&#8217;t block Palestinian Statehood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/09\/11septhansonletterunstatehood.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">In\u00a0a letter today<\/a>, the Rev. Mark Hanson, presiding bishop of the ELCA, urged\u00a0President Obama not to block the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN.\u00a0\u00a0US officials have vowed to\u00a0use the US\u00a0veto power to block the\u00a0Palestinian initiative asking for full member status at the UN.\u00a0 In preparation for a meeting with\u00a0US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,\u00a0Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that a settlement freeze, one of the Palestinian demands for renewing negotiations, would not happen.\u00a0 The Heads of Churches in Jerusalem recently issued <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/09\/HoC_on_UN_General_Assembly_September_2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a statement <\/a>calling for\u00a0two states\u00a0having justice, peace and security,\u00a0a shared Jerusalem and\u00a0renewed negotiations to those ends.\u00a0 They also\u00a0urged restraint on both sides in anticipated protests after the bid is introduced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/obama-to-abbas-u-s-will-veto-palestinian-statehood-bid-at-un-1.385932\" target=\"_blank\">Read Haaretz Article\u00a0<\/a> | <a title=\"CMEP resources on Palestinian bid for statehood\" href=\"http:\/\/cmep.org\/content\/resources-palestinian-initiative-un\" target=\"_blank\">See more resources at Churches for Middle East Peace website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-13701636\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Q and A about Palestinian statehood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0a letter today, the Rev. Mark Hanson, presiding bishop of the ELCA, urged\u00a0President Obama not to block the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN.\u00a0\u00a0US officials have vowed to\u00a0use the US\u00a0veto power to block the\u00a0Palestinian initiative asking for full member status at the UN.\u00a0 In preparation for a meeting with\u00a0US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,\u00a0Israeli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8040,8052,7684],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-elca-press-releases","category-peace-process"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bishop Hanson to Obama: Don&#039;t block Palestinian Statehood  - SUMUD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bishop Hanson to Obama: Don&#039;t block Palestinian Statehood  - SUMUD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In\u00a0a letter today, the Rev. 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