Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says his government is studying with Jordanian diplomats the possibility of again submitting the statehood resolution which failed to pass last week, for a new vote.
“We didn’t fail, the UN Security Council failed us,” Abbas insisted, saying he might go for a third or even a fourth vote on the resolution, which calls for an end to the Israeli occupation by 2017.
The Tuesday vote was 8-2 in favor, one short of the nine votes needed. Five nations abstained, with Nigeria by far the most likely to vote in favor of Palestinian statehood.
Even if a future version of the resolution does pass, it is likely the US will veto it, as they did Tuesday. Israel has lobbied heavily for vetoes, and Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly threatened to sanction the Palestinians for even submitting the resolution the first time.
Go for it. Keep trying till it works. It's all about persistence, so all the American success gurus tel us. At least this forces the US to bribe a bunch of poor third world countries with money that would probably go to israel otherwise, or to finance more wars.
The UN can work, if only to expose the evil of countries that support evil. Perhaps eventually the American people will come onside and demand their government change it's policy. For government leaders are only doing the bidding of those who elected them. When Israel supporters are re-elected again then we'll know that the screaming about bad government is just a sham.