November 30, 2012
How the U.N. Will
Destroy Leftists' Dreams of a 'Two-State Solution'
Never have so many
fretted so much about so little. The Palestinian Authority has gotten the
United Nations General Assembly to recognize it as a non-member state. They
have appeared and spoken before the General Assembly many times in the past as
observers.
Whatever the Palestinian
Authority thinks they are accomplishing by this unilateral maneuver, they are
not. The left wing believes this is a first step to assuring a two-state
solution. It is not. In fact, it essentially eliminates any possibility of a
two-state solution for many decades to come.
Israel now has an excuse
to simply ignore Abbas. He has violated the Oslo accords by acting
unilaterally, and there is no longer any justification to pressure Israel to negotiate.
Moreover, Hamas will never accept Abbas's authority over one square inch of
"Palestinian" land, just as they will never agree to accept the
legitimacy of the State of Israel. That means, at best, that what the United
Nations will be setting in motion is a three-state solution, not a two-state
solution.
What the left will
learn, much to their chagrin, is that the United Nations has just removed
Israel from a very difficult situation. A two-state solution, whereby Gaza and
the West Bank were part of a single nation, was a geographical and security
nightmare. It did not work for Pakistan, which is now Pakistan and Bangladesh.
It had even less chance of working for "Palestine."
Now, with Abbas accepted
by the United Nations but not by the duly elected government of the Gaza Strip,
a three-state solution is firmly along the way, eliminating the need for Israel
to find a way to permit transportation and communications interconnections
across their sovereign land.
Under no circumstances
will Israel be required to open up Gaza once the United Nations General
Assembly recognizes Abbas's government, since his government does not control
Gaza. The distinction between the two lands is now dramatically cemented. Abbas
cannot legitimately claim that an attack on Gaza is an attack on the West Bank,
because he clearly is not the leader of Gaza. Any legitimacy for a united Gaza
and the West Bank is now decidedly eliminated.
The absurdity of the
United Nations' action is highlighted by numerous unanswered questions. First,
what are the borders of the Palestinian non-member "state"? There are
no determined borders, and there are not likely to be any. Where would one
place the border in Jerusalem? Will Palestine be asked to forfeit the Dome of
the Rock? Not likely. Will Israel be required to forfeit the Western Wall? Not
likely. That means that a military and governmental border will have to be
established between the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, sitting right on
top of it. How realistic is that? Good luck setting in place a demilitarized
zone on that border. The most hostile military border in the world would be
located right smack in the middle of the holiest sites for three major
religions.
For the United Nations
to act on this petition without considering these obstacles, and in violation
of the Oslo accords, is not just wrong; it is foolish.
This is a typical
left-wing knee-jerk feel good act failing to consider ramifications. It is
emblematic of the disconnect between leftist goals and reality -- a disconnect
that has been growing for the last fifty years in Europe and in the United
States. What J Street and other left-wing organizations cheering this absurdity
will come to realize is that they have celebrated a path that will increase,
not decrease, the chances for a debilitating war that is likely to spread
across the world.
We have come to expect
no less from the United Nations, frankly. In its entire history, it has failed
to assure peace anywhere. It failed to establish peace right at the outset of
its existence in Korea. It failed in Yugoslavia. It failed in Hungary and
Poland and Czechoslovakia. It has failed to protect the millions of lives lost
in Darfur, the Congo, and elsewhere in Africa. Its World Health Organization
has failed to cure AIDS or even stem the tide of the disease's growth in
Africa. It has failed to make a dent in poverty, or child labor, or abuse of
women anywhere in the world. It has failed to protect the peace on the Israeli
borders at any time, despite millions of dollars spent every year to pay for
useless observers.
Only recently, the
United Nations promised to secure Lebanon to prevent the rearming of
Hezb'allah. They have proven useless in that effort. They have failed to
prevent any nation from acquiring nuclear capability, the latest failure being
Iran. Their Human Rights Commission has done nothing about true abuses of human
rights anywhere in the world, focusing absurdly on Israel, the only nation in
the Middle East preserving women's rights and children's rights. They have been
chaired by such "stalwarts" of human rights as the Syrian government.
The United Nations is
recognized by many people in the United States as a useless mockery. Its only
positive purpose is to prop up real estate prices in New York City and support
the restaurant and hotel business there. And this latest action will do nothing
to change that well-earned view.
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