Don’t bank on the US, Israel

It is about time that the USA be allowed to step back from this issue, which no one nation can solve, and put it to the international community to support a peace process. As thirty-aught-six points out, statehood would, at least in theory, impose a certain level of accountability upon both Israel and the Palestinians.

The simple answer is that as long as Jewish lives are at stake the UN can do and say whatever it wants it is a non-starter for Israel. Sitting down and making it happen is the only way. The PA and Abbas are not interested in a compromise and certainly Hamas-Iran-Syria axis is not about to compromise. Since their entire reason for being is to wipe the Jewish State off the face of the earth.

The endless years of false starts and agreements only to be rejected by the PA is a crime against their own people. 

There is in fact so much accountability from Israel's side that it has been a UN and Durban anti-Semitic rant ,that has a built in  group of third-world and Arab aligned nation majority, that is  not interested in Peace but the piece that is the Jewish State. 

It appears that the West, US and EU is just unwilling to come to terms with the radical Islamic factions globally and their intent at world domination. Just like the old days. This includes the New Turkey and its genocide against the Kurds in Turkey and Iraq. Its imprisoning journalists and military leadership in order to avoid an end of their policies of domination and renewal of the Ottoman empire. This is going on as the Turkish economy is in the pits from all of the give aways  in order to retain power while the deficit is at the dangerous level of 10% of the GDP. Greece is at 9.9%

Israel in spite of the settlements that are actually legal under international law is more then willing to compromise for peace. But unwilling to do it unless the PA is willing to give up its desire to have it all.

Officials of Hamas, the militant Palestinian faction that controls Gaza, said Mr. Abbas’s declaration was a useless stunt aimed at continuing what it called fruitless negotiations with Israel, which Hamas does not recognize as a legitimate state.

“The speech is an attempt to justify the negotiations,” said Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader, reached by telephone. He argued that turning to the United Nations would get Mr. Abbas nothing.

Hamas has banned public demonstrations in Gaza to support Mr. Abbas’s move. Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, told reporters that Mr. Abbas had approached the United Nations unilaterally, without winning support from the group, despite what Mr. Barhoum called the Palestinian president’s rhetoric about reconciliation.

Admission to the United Nations as a full member state requires a recommendation from the 15-member Security Council, with a majority of nine votes, and no veto from the five permanent members, which include the United States. Then the submission goes to the General Assembly, which must pass it by a two-thirds vote among the 193 members.

The American vow to veto has already made it clear that the membership application will not make it out of the Council. But as in other matters involving the United Nations bureaucracy, procedural and legal tools can delay the application for weeks or months along the way. And the Palestinians could still subsequently seek less formal recognition of statehood through the General Assembly.

This less formal recognition via the general Assembly is the desire of the US and the plan Obama has brought to the international community.