It didn’t take long for the Palestinians to raise this trial balloon. In the footsteps of Kosovo, Yasser Abed Rabbo told Reuters the Palestinians should consider unilaterally declaring independence too:
“If things are not going in the direction of actually halting settlement activities, if things are not going in the direction of continuous and serious negotiations, then we should take the step and announce our independence unilaterally,” Abed Rabbo told Reuters.
He drew an analogy to Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia on Sunday.
Rabbo’s trial balloon is rather late: November 15 marks the 20th anniversary of the last PLO Declaration of Independence.
