Judis: Why The U.S. Should Support Palestinian Statehood At The U.N. | The New Republic

President Obama's speech to the U.N. is a case of electorally induced myopia.  With Ed Koch and Florida's elderly Jewish voters looking over his shoulder he forgot about why he got the Nobel Prize: the hope that he would act boldly for peace.  John Judis explains - in the New Republic. - GWC
Judis: Why The U.S. Should Support Palestinian Statehood At The U.N. | The New Republic: "The Obama administration, after failing to head off a Palestinian request to the Security Council for United Nations membership, is prepared to use its veto against it. In an undistinguished address to the General Assembly on Wednesday, President Barack Obama advised the Palestinians to bypass the UN and to confine their campaign for statehood to negotiations with Israel. Obama’s position would have made sense if the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu had made generous offers at the negotiating table that the Palestinians have been spurning, but the Netanyahu government has not; and there is little likelihood, in the absence of a dramatic change of heart, that it will do so. By threatening a veto, Obama appeared to contradict his past support for Palestinian self-determination."

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