It is a near certainty that the United Nations General Assembly will consider a resolution recognizing Palestinian statehood in September 2011. The vote would be largely symbolic – the General Assembly cannot grant statehood. U.N. membership is not assured without prior consent from the permanent Security Council members. Outside the ivory tower of the U.N., such recognition is only achieved through unilateral acknowledgement by independent, sovereign states.
For its bid to be successful, Palestine would need to secure a two-thirds majority from the 192 member General Assembly. It will likely exceed the 128 votes required to achieve that goal. At present, 112 states have recognized Palestinian statehood and Riyad Mansour, Ramallah’s envoy to the U.N., has hinted that number may be inching past 120, with U.N. consideration looming. However, recognition would also require approval from the Security Council. The latter is a non-starter – the United States has already indicated its readiness to veto is a foregone conclusion. Furthermore, the U.S. Senate recently passed a resolution threatening to end its aid to Palestine if the occupied territories do not halt the push for recognition.
Despite the fact that this distinctively token vote meets the measure of forlorn hope, its consequences will be very real.
Although the formal peace process has clearly stalled, the mere discussion of Palestinian state has come at Israel’s expense. Passage of the measure would demonstrate the Jewish state’s growing isolation from the international community. Conversely, rejection of the resolution would undoubtedly escalate simmering tensions.
Dissatisfaction and unrest among Palestinians would be acute.
Concurrently, a US decision to exercise veto power at the Security Council would have disastrous consequence for American interests in the Arab world.
Conventional wisdom suggests the Palestinians want to exceed the vote minimum in the General Assembly, thereby engaging American in a high-stakes game of diplomatic brinksmanship. However, this collision is likely to end in conflict rather than conciliation, and the Palestinians know it. On the streets of the West Bank and Gaza, talk is building of hundreds of thousands taking the streets in the ramp-up to the U.N. vote, supported by millions of fellow Arabs, in a powerful demonstration of cultural solidarity and frustration with Israel’s perceived intransigence.
This should come as little surprise. Palestinian attitudes and expectations for the September vote remain upbeat, if tempered by the political reality of United States’ ultimate determination of the resolution’s achievement. According to a June 16-18 poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Statistical Research (PCPSR), 57% of Palestinians believe they will obtain recognition of their state from two-thirds of the members should their case reach the U.N.’s General Assembly, despite a whopping 76% majority who believe the U.S. will use its veto power at the Security Council level. The fact that a majority of Palestinians remain sanguine about international acknowledgment, despite an overwhelming belief that the United States will attempt to squash their efforts, demonstrates that practical expectations have not subsumed the blind optimism spirited on by the surging Arab Spring.
However, there are legitimate concerns that a U.S. rejection Palestine’s membership bid – lacking a suitable alternative – would provoke a violent response. Mahmoud Abbas is a weak ruler, and widely mistrusted by many Palestinians. His Palestinian Authority could potentially lose control of any broad-based Palestinian street movement.
Recently, concerns of a third intifada merging with region-wide demonstrations have mounted. Israel was brusquely introduced to the protest movement on May 15th as tens of thousands of Palestinians amassed on its borders to protest the creation of the Jewish state 63 years prior. They arrived in observance of the ‘nakba,’ or catastrophe, in reference to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, after the formation of the state of Israel was formalized by international diplomacy, and solidified by the 1948 war.
All told, ten Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured as protests reignited Arab-Israeli tensions over Palestine’s push for international recognition at the United Nations this fall.
Obviously, Israel is sensitive to thoughts of intifada. However, the shape and stature of Palestinian resistance will continue to grow as neighboring Arab states “shake off” years of repression and inequity.
Israel has demonstrated strong misgivings about rumblings of democracy in the region, preferring the “devil it knows.” However, efforts to stop pro-Palestinian projects will demand a new level of repression if the Jewish state wants to take the fight from the militarized borders of Eretz Israel to the halls of the United Nations.
It is unlikely that formal U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state would compel Israel to concede tenure of the West Band and Gaza. However, if recent events and expectations on the Palestinian side of the Separation Wall are any indication, Israel will ultimately pay the price, regardless of the outcome.
How will the US reconcile support of the Arab spring and a veto of the Palestine Statehood?
We can see very clearly that the American Led NATO War Mongers and War Criminals do not care about either Human Rights, or even Democracy.
It is obvious that America has been a Plutocracy posing as a Democracy for over one hundred years, and much of Western Europe has been a Plutocracy posing as a Democracy.
Hillary Clinton asked for the illegal Yes Men Puppets of the Arab League, and the majority of those Countries are not Democratic, but then again, America was in company of Undemocratic Countries again.
America is more Cunning than England, because it is Imperialistic, and not Colonialist, even though the two are the same thing.
The English need Pomp a Ceremony where the Colonies have the English Monarch as their Head of State in the English Uncommonly spread Wealth of Colonies, Euphemistically known as the British Commonwealth; whereas, America only Demands Complete Puppetship to America, and forget the Pomp and Ceremony.
The Criminally Insane Hillary Rotten Clinton who is always Hypocritically Lecturing others like Little Children about Democracy and the Rule of Law, has never suggested that the American Constitution be Obeyed.
This is because her Evil Objective is to be made Empress of America and of Rest of the World.
We know that the Power Hungry and Criminally Insane Hillary Clinton said that the words, “We Are the President”, during the Official Presidency of her part time husband during 1992 to 2000.
We see that Both Presidents Clintons have long sought to make America a Military Dictatorship, and they have found Barack Obama to be their way of achieving this Evil Objective.
We should never underestimate the Cunning and Smooth Talk of Power Hungry and of the Criminally Insane People like Hillary Rotten Clinton, who many People believe is the Real President of America.
Slick Willy would also want to be Emperor, but he does not have the drive like his Mistress Hillary Rotten Clinton, because he would rather be doing other things.
Hillary Rotten Clinton is using the Cunning of President Bill Clinton, and she could be allowing her part time husband flexibility in his part time retirement, as long as he uses he Tutors her with his Cunning to help her make America a Military Dictatorship.
The English, French, and Americans know that they can Puppetize the Leaders of Black African countries, because they cannot be like President Bill Clinton, and they must be Secret that they like White Women.
We know that the English, French, and America like to invite Black African Leaders to White London, White Paris, and White Washington for talks and for Secret Drunken Parties where thee are White Women at those Secret Drunken Parties.
We know that Barack Obama’s father liked White Women, and we know that he liked Black Women, and we Know that the President of France’s Colony of the Ivory Coast is married to a White Woman.
If America were interested in protecting Civilians, then they would have done something to help the decades long sufferings, injustices, and murders of the Palestinian People.
If America was interested in protecting Civilians, then they would not have sponsored a Coup Attempt in Libya, along with all the other successful Coups that have they are Responsible for, and that has killed Civilians.
If England, France, and America were serious about protecting Civilians, then they would order a ceasefire, and let the African Union mediate a Peaceful Negotiated Solution for the Libyan Civilians.
The African Union needs to know that the White Terrorist Colonialists and Imperialists, along with their Puppet Uncle Tom Barack Obama, fully consider the Black People of Africa to be Dogs that need to be Recolonized, because the White Euro-American Plutocrats consider the People of Africa to be both Racially Inferior, and Intellectually Inferior to the White Plutocrats and their Corrupt and Bribed Puppet Politicians.