Moral Bankruptcy: Wll U.S. Veto Palestine? (Jim Miles)

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Sept. 19, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- This week at the UN -- if the U.S. push to disable the process does not succeed -- a vote will be taken on Palestinian statehood. The United States has already stated that it will veto any vote that supports Palestinian statehood. So why take the vote if that is the end result?

A recent global poll indicated that by a two-to-one margin, the people of the world, of all of earth, all of humanity, support the idea of a Palestinian state. That is probably about the same as the General Assembly vote will be as the United States and its sycophantic allies will argue that the best way to proceed is through negotiations. The Euro community and the NATO community will probably vote against a Palestinian state, which would be no surprise as they have already demonstrated their moral bankruptcy in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and most recently in Libya. Canada, under the leadership of Stephen Harper’s conservatives, will support the United States unequivocally -- and perhaps try to outdo the United States in its support for the negative vote side. Still there should be enough support for the vote to proceed to the Security Council to garner the U.S. veto.

As for negotiations, they have only proven to be a dead end for Palestine, quite literally. As the Israelis and the United States have “negotiated” over the last 40 years, the Palestinian territory has been reduced to a series of bantustans or cantonments in which the Palestinians are essentially in an open air prison, ruled -- not governed -- by the Israeli Defence Forces imposition of martial law. This year’s release of the Palestinian papers demonstrated that the Palestinians are more than willing "partners for peace" while the Israelis are the ones not looking for a negotiated settlement. Negotiations have simply been the cover used by Israeli, with the full support of the United States, to continue the slow process of annexation and expropriation of Palestinian land and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

When the vote to support Palestinian statehood is passed by the General Assembly, as popular support would indicate it should be, then negotiations of a different nature could proceed. A positive vote would indicate that a different approach is necessary. Before the vote, the various scenarios of Palestine as two states, a unitary state, a bi-national state, or a federal state have all been postulated. To try and negotiate any of this before the vote is not the real point of the vote. The real point of the vote is to expose U.S. and European intransigence towards the Palestinian issue, not that they have not been out in the open about it, but that they will have to categorically state that they support the imposition of martial law on an occupied peoples indefinitely.

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1. The US has made it clear it will use its veto power if necessary