PERSPECTIVE| FES PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES Showdown in September? The Palestinian bid for Statehood at the United Nations ALEXANDER RUESCHE AND ANDREAS HACKL August 2011  Should bilateral negotiations with Israel continue to stall, Palestinians will ask for recognition of their state and admission to the United Nations this September.  According to estimates 120 countries currently support the accession of a Palestinian state to the UN as a full member state. A two-thirds-majority in the General Assembly seems as certain as a US veto in the UN Security Council.  As of now, it remains uncertain whether Palestine will apply for full UN membership or turn to the General Assembly to reach an upgrade of the current status to that of a non­member observer state and circumvent a US veto.  This past spring, World Bank, IMF and UN declared that the conditions for a Palestinian state are met due to the successful state-building process initialized by the two-year »Fayyad plan« of 2009.