The Security Council prepares to kick the Palestine can

Posted By David Bosco Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 4:55 PM Share

The UN Security Council will apparently meet tomorrow to discuss the report of the "committee" it created to consider Palestine's application for UN membership. The notion that some specialized committee is deliberating over the vexed question is a fiction, of course, since the committee includes all Council members and is therefore the Council itself meeting under a separate name.

Given that, it's not surprising therefore that the committee has failed to reach consensus. It has, however, produced a report, which the Council will dutifully discuss. Via Security Council Report's invaluable What's in Blue blog:

It seems the report indicates the Committee has concluded its work but was unable to reach a unanimous recommendation on Palestine’s application. Apparently the report also details the exchange of views, without specific attribution, on whether Palestine meets the requirements for membership.

It seems the Committee will approve this report and transmit it to the Council as a public document. It appears unlikely that the Council will take any immediate decisions.

The whip count on the Council appears to be stuck where it has been: with eight of the Council's fifteen members inclined to support membership. This still puts Palestine one short of the nine votes it needs to force an American veto.

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WALTSWRONGWITHTHISPICTURE

10:21 PM ET

November 9, 2011

if abbas wants a state, he MUST sit down to NEGOTIATE

What is it that people dont quite understand?

Netanyahu, as disliked as the fashionable set likes to portray him, is democratically elected and quite popular in his country. Netanyahu froze the west bank for 10 months, during which abbas would not sit down to talks. Why? because obama allowed him to sit on his hands. Netanyahu called for 2 states for 2 peoples, something abbas wont do. Netanyahu removed checkpoints, he eased the blockade on gaza and he's worked with the PA on security issues and helped the PA create a more favourable economy. So dont tell me netanyahu has done nothing...the only one whose done nothing is abbas...

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4:37 AM ET

November 10, 2011

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11:43 AM ET

November 10, 2011

btw

hows that new kinder gentler multilateralism of obama's workin out? what with the famous "reset button" and all and russia now bending over backwards to help us out on iran...NOT....

oh yes, obama sure knows how to lead from behind...

SPOOD

7:18 PM ET

November 10, 2011

The Palestinians already have a unilaterally declared state

Its called Gaza.

It is under the complete control of the Palestinians and has no Israeli settlements. It is home to 40% of the Palestinian population.

Abbas doesn't even speak for the entirety of his people. Just a shade over half of them. A sizable number of Palestinians are openly hostile to his authority. Yet he is considered the legitimate voice of them in the UN?

A Palestinian state in the West Bank without negotiation with Israel will be a landlocked Gaza. A rogue state with sealed borders and neighbors with outside access openly hostile to them.

Expect a wall to be erected in Jordan shortly thereafter.