The event attracted some 3,000 runners from more than 30 countries and regions to the BiH capital, with mayor Abdulah Skaka setting off the
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A real peace between Israel and the Palestinians was not made during 2014, as the U.S. sponsored direct peace talks between the two sides, after lasting for
nine months without achieving any significant progress, were suspended earlier
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Palestine as a non-member observer state. However, amid this stalemate, the Palestinians still threatened to join 400 international treaties and agencies.
The endless Israeli settlement expansion and other measures in east Jerusalem have made more Palestinians determined to join the international agencies and
treaties. At the end of September, they decided to go to the UN Security Council
to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and establish an
independent Palestinian state on the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.
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Israel's current interests.
"The Palestinians attempt to internationalize the conflict with Israel (that) aims at filling the political vacuum amid an absence of any political progress.
It also aims at confronting the Israeli settlement policy and the Israeli
attempts of imposing facts on the ground that undermine the two-state solution,"
he said.
While the Palestinians are waiting for more serious international position to resolve their cause, during the last quarter of 2014, the Palestinians won a
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