(Ephraim, Please Pray and come home, Ariel)
Originally published on Tikkun Daily
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According to a classified cable obtained by Haaretz, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, has informed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Israel has no chance of preventing the U.N. General Assembly from recognizing Palestine as a state.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the 2007 World Economic Forum during a session entitled “Enough is Enough – Israel and the Palestinian Territories.” Photo by the World Economic Forum.
Prosor’s assessment is consistent with what has been observed for some time: that only a handful of U.N. member states plan to vote against the Palestinian initiative in the General Assembly, with an expected 130-140 countries voting in favor. And among Western nations, only five so far have pledged to vote against recognition of a Palestinian state: Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and the United States.
Of those five countries, which nation stands alone in refusing to consider changing its voting stance if the Palestinians include language indicating a continued commitment to peace talks with Israel in its U.N. bid? The United States.
America’s isolation is stunning. But it gets worse. Read the rest on:
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