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The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is asking UN bodies to grant state status to “Palestine”â€"so Palestinians can enjoy the prerogatives of statehood without making painful compromises with Israel.  Now that the Palestinian bid has failed to gain Security Council support, its efforts within individual UN entities take on added significance. 

The United States must continue opposing this gambit, which undermines U.S. peace efforts and challenges U.S. leadership.
 
Last month UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) became the first UN body to accept the Palestinian bid for full state membership.  UNESCO disregarded U.S. objections that Palestinians can achieve statehood only by negotiating and compromising with Israel.

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