PLO to pursue statehood despite Israeli measures
Israel's punitive responses to a successful Palestinian bid to join UNESCO - financial sanctions and a faster settlement drive in the occupied West Bank - are unlikely to halt a Palestinian quest for recognition as a state at the United Nations.
A senior Palestinian official said on Wednesday that Israel was trying to undermine the Palestinian Authority (PA) through a decision on Tuesday to freeze temporarily transfers of PA funds after it won membership of the UN cultural agency. (Reuters)
