The global community should maintain caution in isolating the USA and Israel from successful international relationships to back an independent Palestinian state without a succesful peace pact with Israel.
The fact that President Obama is upholding the law of the USA that states if Palestine were to be a member of any UN organization the USA would end funding provides solid ground for him to defeat any notion that he was not sympathetic to Israel's status. More than that, Israel is a vitalo strategic partner for the USA. That will never change. For that reason alone the 'idea' that Palestine can independently declare its national status through imposed standings with the UN and international organizations before concluding a peace treaty with Israel sets the world stage for confrontation that will provide for 'dangerous' territory rather than a gathering influence to global nuclear disarmament and peace.
If the Palestinian state were to continue this trend, it would cause the USA to posture itself differently within the global community and set the stage for a new cold war. That said, it has been over four decades and at least two generations the Palestinians have been without a defined homeland. Their borders have been toyed with for all the time and now they have developed a strategy to derail Israel is 'the enemy' among all peaceful people. It is the worst idea a country could purport as the truth that should dictate international dialogue and policy. The Palestinians are attempting to demonize Israel in a manner that would set the entire globe in opposition to the USA and Israel. It is a stretegy based in a lie and a dangerous lie at that.
The Palestinians need to resume peace negotitations with Israel and lobbing new rockets into Israel is not a good beginning. The Palestinians want the war Iran has promised and they will stop at nothing to achieve it. It is a dangerous stretegy for the international community to entertain. As things stand today with this vote, the USA and Israel are now examining their alliance as a matter of defense of their nations if the 'global chemistry' goes wrong.
...While UNESCO membership (click title to entry - thank you) will take the Palestinians only a short way toward their goal of enhanced international standing, it embarrassed the Obama administration by highlighting its relative isolation on the issue.
Administration officials criticized the UNESCO move as a blow to U.S. efforts to bring Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table to reach a deal that would end Israel's occupation of the West Bank and create a Palestinian state.
The vote, said Nuland, was "regrettable, premature and undermines our shared vision of a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East."...
The fact that President Obama is upholding the law of the USA that states if Palestine were to be a member of any UN organization the USA would end funding provides solid ground for him to defeat any notion that he was not sympathetic to Israel's status. More than that, Israel is a vitalo strategic partner for the USA. That will never change. For that reason alone the 'idea' that Palestine can independently declare its national status through imposed standings with the UN and international organizations before concluding a peace treaty with Israel sets the world stage for confrontation that will provide for 'dangerous' territory rather than a gathering influence to global nuclear disarmament and peace.
If the Palestinian state were to continue this trend, it would cause the USA to posture itself differently within the global community and set the stage for a new cold war. That said, it has been over four decades and at least two generations the Palestinians have been without a defined homeland. Their borders have been toyed with for all the time and now they have developed a strategy to derail Israel is 'the enemy' among all peaceful people. It is the worst idea a country could purport as the truth that should dictate international dialogue and policy. The Palestinians are attempting to demonize Israel in a manner that would set the entire globe in opposition to the USA and Israel. It is a stretegy based in a lie and a dangerous lie at that.
The Palestinians need to resume peace negotitations with Israel and lobbing new rockets into Israel is not a good beginning. The Palestinians want the war Iran has promised and they will stop at nothing to achieve it. It is a dangerous stretegy for the international community to entertain. As things stand today with this vote, the USA and Israel are now examining their alliance as a matter of defense of their nations if the 'global chemistry' goes wrong.
...While UNESCO membership (click title to entry - thank you) will take the Palestinians only a short way toward their goal of enhanced international standing, it embarrassed the Obama administration by highlighting its relative isolation on the issue.
Administration officials criticized the UNESCO move as a blow to U.S. efforts to bring Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table to reach a deal that would end Israel's occupation of the West Bank and create a Palestinian state.
The vote, said Nuland, was "regrettable, premature and undermines our shared vision of a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East."...
