Obama administration is seeking for the release of $ 200 million for Palestinians

Government of President Barack Obama is struggling to persuade Congress to release $ 200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority has been frozen because of its attempt to win United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state, despite the objections of the United States and Israel.
The spokeswoman said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Victoria Nuland Monday that the U.S. government conducted extensive discussions with key lawmakers opposing the release of such aid, the lifeblood of the Palestinian Authority ..
Noland said in a news briefing that with respect to the release of these funds, there are some fears in some quarters of Congress, and we are trying to overcome.
The lawmakers in the House and Senate in recent weeks moved to freeze the flow of aid to the Palestinians that had been earmarked for the fiscal year 2011.
Said Matt Evnjual spokesman for Rep. Kay Granger head of the House subcommittee that oversees foreign aid - said that Granger endorsed in August / August freeze aid until you resolve the question of the state of the United Nations.
It should be noted that the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had been submitted in August last formal request to the Security Council of the United Nations to recognize the Palestinian state, ignoring the threat to the United States using its veto to thwart the move if you were voting on it.
The United States and Israel that a Palestinian state can only be achieved through direct peace negotiations that collapsed a year ago after he refused to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend the limited freeze on building Jewish settlements in the West Bank