Posted on 09/21/2011 6:11:09 AM PDT by standingfirm
The Palestinian Authority (“P.A.”) is proceeding full steam ahead to create “facts on the ground” in the Middle East by working the Manhattan corridors of the United Nations. This is neither the first time, nor undoubtedly the last, that Palestinian leaders have succumbed to the delusion that Middle Eastern reality can be changed by irrelevant U.N. activity.
The tactical ploys and counter-ploys are now flying around the U.N. compound. In the midst of all of the conflicting news reports we will see and hear, keep in mind one thing: this is more Broadway theater than a serious effort to achieve Middle East peace.
The odds of “Palestine” becoming a U.N. member are essentially zero. Although President Obama may once have toyed with not vetoing a PA move for membership (thus, ironically, encouraging the chaos now unfolding at Turtle Bay), he has rejected this counterproductive idea. Washington will veto, period.
Possibly, the P.A. bid may not even obtain the majority of nine (out of fifteen) Security Council votes it needs under the U.N. Charter, thus meaning that, technically, Washington’s “no” vote would not actually be a “veto.”
Accordingly, I think it unlikely that the P.A. will go to the Council. Although in the U.N. Twilight Zone, defeat is often spun as a moral victory, any more such “victories” for the P.A. could mean its complete collapse.
Most likely, therefore,
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More Obama fallout.
In his 2009 speech he led them to think there would soon be a Palestinian state established without any serious negotiations or agreements with Israel.
He is a naive bumbler without an ounce of integrity, skill or ability beyond occasionally being able to read a speech loaded with leftist platitudes off the Teleprompter.
Now he’s desperately backpedaling after losing the Jew’s confidence vis a vis Weiner’s congressional seat to a Republican. He’s got to show he’s pro Israel, even though everyone know’s he’s not.
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