The State of the ‘State of Palestine’, by Patrick Lawrence

Fifteen nations are going to announce their recognition of Palestinian statehood at the next meeting of the UN General Assembly. Will it make any difference? From Patrick Lawrence at unz.com:

United Nations General Assembly. Diplomatic Security Service from Washington, D.C., United States of America, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

United Nations General Assembly sessions, held each September since 51 nations convened in a Methodist church hall in London in 1946, come and go and mostly go without event. The General Assembly is set to begin its 80^th session come Sept. 9, and it is difficult to imagine this one will go off uneventfully. To put the point simply, Israel has murdered, starved and terrorized too many Palestinians for this year’s gathering at the Secretariat in Manhattan to conclude without some conclusions. It remains only what these conclusions will be.

Several weeks ago a group of 15 nations — among them prominent members of the Atlantic alliance — stated their intention to announce their formal declaration of Palestinian statehood at this year’s session. This sets up various of Israel’s most important supporters for what is likely to prove a messy confrontation with “the Jewish state” and, naturally, the United States as Israel’s unfailing backer.

This is not guesswork. It is already evident these new recognitions will dominate the Assembly session..Since the 15 nations declared their intent to recognize Palestine as a legitimate state, the Israelis have announced plans to mount a major new operation in Gaza City. On Aug. 25, the Zionist military staged one of those disgusting “double tap” attacks — strike, then strike again as rescue workers and journalists arrive — on a hospital in southern Gaza, killing 20 people and raising the death toll among journalists to 247. Less than a week later, Israel began the large-scale attack on Gaza City it had previously announced — an act of sheer defiance and impunity.

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