Just in case anyone was under the misguided impression that the US is an honest broker in the Middle East, this news from the US Senate should clear up the confusion:
The United States Senate has passed a resolution threatening to suspend financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority if its leaders "persist in efforts to circumvent direct negotiations by turning to the United Nations or other international bodies,” and called on U.S. President Barack Obama to veto a UN vote on unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.So Palestinians must recognise an Israeli state but the Palestinians themselves are not even allowed to have even a theoretical one, which is all that a UN resolution in practice will mean, because, of course, Israel still occupies Palestine.
“Palestinian efforts to gain recognition of a state outside direct negotiations demonstrates absence of a good faith commitment to peace negotiations, and will have implications for continued United States aid,” the resolution declares. more
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