Obama, UN Security Council Vote and Palestinian Statehood

As most of you no doubt already know, within a matter of a few weeks, President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians will make their bid to become a nonvoting observer state -- as opposed to being a nonvoting observer entity -- at the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, which begins on September 20th.

Over the summer, in anticipation of that coming move by the Palestinians, the government of the United States has been working hard behind the scenes with the other members of the so-called "Quartet" -- that is, the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations -- to avoid a vote on the floor of the General Assembly, by offering the Israelis and the Palestinians a substantive alternative solution.

However, as of this date, it appears that the Palestinians have not been persuaded to abandon their pursuit of United Nations recognition, even though the American Government has already made it very clear to them that the U.S. -- which is a member of the U.N. Security Council -- will veto any vote which is brought before it.

Quite frankly, regardless of what we think of Palestinian violence against the Israelis, or Israeli violence against the Palestinians -- which is always more deadly -- I think that enough is enough. Through the power of the vote, and its expensive military and economic support of Israel over the decades, the United States Government has clearly shown whose side it is on.

Like so many other things that U.S. President Barack Obama has stated in the past, his so-called promise of initiating a new era of understanding with the Muslim world was nothing but meaningless hot air. To be quite blunt, I am convinced that President Obama's decision to veto the upcoming UN Security Council vote concerning the Palestinians, and his current endeavors to offer the Palestinians yet another peace package as a means to stall the UN vote, is motivated more by the upcoming U.S. presidential election, than by anything else.

Let's be honest here. President Barack Obama is beholden to American Jewish money, and to Israel-supporting Americans and politicians, just like every president before him. He knows that if he doesn't do what the Jewish lobby in Washington, D.C. wants -- in this case, veto a UN Security Council vote concerning Palestinian statehood -- he may be a one-term president. And actually, Obama may turn out to be a one-term president anyway, due to the terrible state of the U.S. economy -- which has not seen any improvement since he took office, but has only grown worse -- and other issues which have sunk his popularity level.

If the truth be told, Obama's current attempts to derail Palestinian aspirations at the United Nations by offering new peace talks, amounts to the same old, same old. In other words, President Obama can only offer more deception and meaningless talks which will no doubt lead nowhere, while the Jews continue to slowly expand their illegal settlements in the West Bank, and cut up the West Bank piece by piece, until there is nothing left to form a contiguous Palestinian State.

It is time for this charade and game of deception to come to an end. I have been saying this for years now. Talking to the Jews is a complete waste of time. Decades of talks with the Jews have resulted in nothing concrete. It is time for real, substantive action; and that begins with a vote at the United Nations General Assembly later this month. If the United States is really concerned about its image abroad, then it will vote in favor of the Palestinians, instead of slavishly pandering to Jewish interests as it is prone to do.