Tomorrow's vote on granting "state" status to the PA observer delegation at the UN is an exercise in imbecility from beginning to end.
As every serious person who follows these matters well understands, Mahmoud Abbas is America's bum-boy in Palestine.
While he's been "negotiating" a sovereign Palestinian state with Israel for the last eight years, the settler population in the occupied territories has doubled.
During those eight years the credibility and prestige of his Hamas rivals has blossomed.
But Israel and the Nations of Virtue claim that this empty UN gesture is some sort of "short-cut" that seeks to by-pass negotiations with Israel. Hence you see the spectacle of international lightweights like Canadian PM Harper waxing grave on how Canada cannot support any attempt to bypass negotiations.
What a crock of shit!
At no point in his tenure have the Nations of Virtue conceded a single hollow "victory" that Abbas could take to his people and show them that he's a serious champion of a Palestinian state.
That's no way to treat a bum-boy.
Meanwhile Hamas looks better and better to the Palestinian masses, because they're willing to take a beating every few years, and after every beating they come back stronger.
Unlike Abbas, who bows to every demand of his US masters and comes back looking weaker and weaker.
So his juvenile act of defiance, taking this issue to the UN General Assembly in defiance of his handlers, should be applauded and supported by Canada and the US and that handful of other countries that still deny the realities of the new Middle East.
Supporting Abbas in this vote is their last chance to make the PA look like a meaningful option.
The only other option is Hamas.
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