Israel is working on several strategies to derail the Palestinian plan to obtain recognition of statehood at the UN General Assembly in September. Israel’s foreign ministry has ordered its ambassadors to fuel the media hype against Palestinian statehood. Meanwhile, Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and nine of his ministers are in Italy in a bid to secure Rome's support in their anti-Palestinian statehood campaign. To further discuss the issue, Press TV interviewed Eugene Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars Magazine from Indiana.