(Huffington Post) Josef Olmert - Any inclusion of a new member state in the UN requires a Security Council decision. Judging by President Obama's repeated statements, the U.S. will object, and that means end of story. The General Assembly will have its automatic anti-Israel majority for a symbolic resolution, but Palestine will not be a member. Second, at least 4 out of the 8 G-8 Forum states, the U.S., Canada, Germany and Italy, are likely to vote no in the General Assembly, thus depriving this resolution from most of its actual significance. Third, no UN decision regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict has ever been historic in reality, rather than in rhetoric, and that includes the Partition Resolution from 1947 that was blatantly violated by the Arab invasion of the newly-established State of Israel. The writer is an adjunct professor at American University's School of International Service.
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