Скачать или смотреть Reactions to speech by Palestinian President Abbas

(17 Sep 2011) SHOTLIST
Ramallah, West Bank
1. Wide of Al-Manara square
2. Mid of newspaper shop
3. Tilt down of newspaper stand photo of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
4. Close up of news headline reading (Arabic) "The president: We are going to the security council"
5. Mid of Bassam Zubaide, political science professor at Birzeit University
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Bassam Zubaide, Birzeit University:
"I think the speech was very comprehensive, and I think it was in a way a very daring speech, he was able to send out a few messages, very important messages, the important message is towards the Palestinians inside the country that he is not really compromising with the major issues, meaning going to the United Nations is not the last destination, he''s a man who promised that it''s a long process and he will continue that process whether through the United Nations or afterwards by continuing and following up on that until the materialisation of the state."
7. Zoom out from Palestinian flags on car to street
Gaza City, Gaza Strip
8. Various of man reading newspaper
9. Close up of newspaper page with picture of Abbas
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) No name given, Gazan vox pop:
"After 60 years you remembered to go the United States (for the United Nations), what you think you will be able to get? You won''t get anything, except some ink on papers."
11. Various of newspapers headlines
STORYLINE
A Palestinian academic praised on Saturday Mahmoud Abbas'' "daring speech" a day after the Palestinian president announced he would ask the United Nations Security Council to endorse his statehood bid next week.
Abbas made the speech before preparing to leave for New York.
"He is not really compromising with the major issues," said Professor Bassam Zubaide of Birzeit University.
"He''s a man who promised that it''s a long process and he will continue that process whether through the United Nations or afterwards by continuing and following up on that until the materialisation of the state," he added.
In the Palestinians'' high-profile bid to seek statehood at the United Nations, half the future nation they envision has been all but forgotten.
Residents of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip are watching frustrated from the sidelines as the West Bank-based leadership pushes for the long-held dream.
One Gazan reading about Abbas'' trip to America in a newspaper said on Saturday that they "won''t get anything, except some ink on papers".
The move for UN recognition has created a quandary for the Islamic militant Hamas, which violently overran Gaza three years ago and set up a rival government there.
They can''t publicly oppose the idea of statehood, but they are wary of giving a boost to their West Bank rival, internationally backed Abbas.
They also don''t want to appear to recognise Israel, as the move implicitly does by calling for a state only on territories captured in 1967.
The US has pledged to veto the statehood bid, and President Barack Obama''s administration has senior diplomats in the region making a last-ditch effort to persuade the Palestinians to drop the measure.
Abbas'' Palestinian Authority is seeking recognition of an independent state on territories that Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war, including the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza.
Israel withdrew soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005, but still controls its crossings, blockades its coast and occupies the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

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