President Mahmoud Abbas' attempt to persuade the U.N. Security Council to admit a state of Palestine as a full member of the international body has, all too predictably, hit a wall. The technical U.N. committee to which the issue was referred , not surprisingly, failed to reach a consensus (because there's no consensus among Council [...](http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&blog=19871253&post=11974&subd=timeglobalspin&ref=&feed=1)
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