Fast draw – Palestinian Statehood
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The Palestinians want statehood at any price, and they are counting on the new composition of the UN’s Security Council. A terrorist organization wants to become a nation, even if this would be the product of some international scheme. Dream on.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki says the Palestinian Authority can secure 9 votes of member countries by the end of 2014 and call for the end of the Israeli occupation by November 2016.
The UN Security Council (SC) comprises 15 members, including 5 permanent member states and 10 alternating members which are chosen by region. In the beginning of 2015, 5 new members are expected to join: Spain, New Zealand, Venezuela, Malaysia and Angola.
The Palestinians hope the new composition of the SC – which is pro-Palestinian compared with the incumbent one, as it consists of pro-Israeli countries such as Australia and Rwanda – will support their demand that the SC will recognize a Palestinian State. Israel, for its part, is counting on the permanent members’ veto and on the US which would exert its authority against the resolution the Palestinians wish to promote.
So let’s say a resolution calling for Palestinian Statehood does pass, and that the US will not veto it. Does this turn Hamas’s terrorist branch in the West Bank into a state? What is this resolution worth if Israel won’t give them anything as long as they support terror and merely disguise themselves as more moderate compared with the Palestinians in Gaza?
Playing games is for children. If Abu Mazen want to play, let’s send him coupons to Toys R US.
iHLS editor-in-chief
