The Palestine mirage
Those Israelis won’t be reassured by the lopsided 138-9 margin of Thursday’s vote, with 41 abstentions. In effect, the General Assembly voted to violate the 1993 Oslo Accords, which are the legal basis for Mr. Abbas’s Palestinian Authority and require negotiations with Israel to create a state. When the world next asks Jerusalem to take “risks for peace,” Israelis will know that countries such as France (which voted for the resolution) and Germany (which abstained) will not have their backs.
It will be interesting to see if the Palestinians now use their new U.N. status to harass Israelis in venues such as the International Criminal Court. Such tactics are aimed at making everyday life increasingly unbearable for Israelis, ostensibly to force their hand on accepting a Palestinian state. Our guess is that it will have the opposite effect.
As for the Obama Administration, it opposed the U.N. resolution but failed to get allies such as France and Germany to do so as well—further testimony to U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice’s dubious diplomatic skills.
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This IS not going to end well for Israel! And if push comes to shove, will bho stand with Israel? Me thinks not!
As for rice, that old hag doesn’t seem to be good at anything but lying and making money?
God be with you Israel, you are always in my prayers.
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letget on December 1, 2012 at 12:36 PM
There is no such thing as a “Palestinian.” Never has been.
Warner Todd Huston on December 1, 2012 at 12:40 PM
I thought the title was referring to a new Casino being built in Ramallah.
Shy Guy on December 1, 2012 at 12:56 PM
The muslims around the world are celebrating, not just the palestinians. To them, its a huge victory. Like a dude told me: ‘The world is on our side. Except for the US ofcourse. We have isolated Israel successfully’. The more this happens, the more aggressive Israel will become. To them, its an existential threat.
tommy71 on December 1, 2012 at 1:10 PM
There is no such thing as a “palestinian”. They are ARABS, descendents of the invaders from the 7th Century.
wildcat72 on December 1, 2012 at 1:14 PM
Israel is on it’s own. Now might be the time for Americans to volunteer to fight for the IDF. This sort of thing has happened in our past, American volunteers were fighting in World War I and World War II before the United States entered…
wildcat72 on December 1, 2012 at 1:24 PM
If you watch Exodus, Paul Newman played a “Palestinian” – a Jew born in the Palestine mandate. That’s what the world called “Palestinians”. The arabs were just called “arabs”, as most of them were Syrians who moved down when the Jews started to make a thriving land in the once desolate and ruined area. Mark Twain wrote about the sorry state of the area in his “The Innocents Abroad” from 1867.
If Israel had any sense they would leave the fetid UN. It’s funny that the UN can declare a “state” that has no boundaries, no real govenrment, no control of some territiories that they claim are under control of the terrorist PA that the UN loves … it’s a total joke. All the UN did was declare the PA a governing body without anything else, which is nothing but a mockery of the notion of the nation-state.
The UN is a despicable organization that ought to be put to sleep, already. Only a total idiot would even think that there should exist an empowered, peerless, competitionless entity, as even a passing familiarity with evolutionary theory, capitalist theory or just plain common sense informs one that such an entity is guaranteed to grow in grotesque and destructive ways – as the UN has amply demonstrated and is poised to provide more evidence for in the future. It takes a real imbecile to even think that an institution such as the UN should exist. It should not. No way. No how.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM
Heck. If push comes to shove will Hussein stand with the USA?
iconoclast on December 1, 2012 at 3:38 PM