United Nations General Assembly will almost certainly approve an upgrade of the status of the Palestinian Authority from nonvoting "observer entity" to "observer state," placing it on par with the Holy See.
UN Vote For A Palestine State: President Obama’s Self-Fulfilling Prophesy
The New York Times ran a banner front page headline on September 14, 2011 entitled "U.S. Scrambles to Avert Palestinian Vote at U.N."
The Times headline should have read "The Obama Administration Scrambles to Avoid Its Own Self-Fulfilling Prophesy."