"Auto-emancipation" refers, of course, to the rise of a Jewish national movement for self-determination, culminating in Zionism and eventual statehood.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 called for a public university as part of the settlement and eventual statehood of the Ohio Territory:

The addition of the motto , the 14th star, is cited as a hope for eventual statehood.

The U.S. editorial spin: The Palestinians held off because the United States and the European Union asked them to do so and promised to support eventual statehood.

Such calculated acts of mass murder constitute the greatest single obstacle to diplomatic progress, eventual Palestinian statehood and real peace.

But it points in the direction of eventual statehood by recognizing Palestinian nationality and P.L.O. political authority.

By opening Hawaii to free trade the process for eventual statehood into the United States had begun.

It also insists that talks with Israel not be restricted to elections but include eventual Palestinian statehood.

The general pattern seen in this is of territorial expansion, carving of organized territories from the newly acquired land, modification of the borders of these territories, and eventual statehood.

It is fair to say that the elections make the prospect of eventual statehood seem more realistic, a point not lost on militant right-wing Jewish settlers.