The Palestinian Authority will attempt to get the United Nations to declare statehood for Palestinians at its annual meeting in New York later this week. Palestinians will apply to the United Nations Security Council for full membership in the UN. If that fails, the UN General Assembly will vote on whether or not to grant Palestinians status as an observer state.
Projections are that they may or may not be successful with the Security Council and that they would win a vote in the General Assembly by a considerable margin.
Palestinians don't deserve a state of their own and it would be remiss and immoral of the United Nations to do anything which might lead to statehood for them. Why don't Palestinians deserve a state of their own and why would it be remiss and immoral of the United Nations to do anything which might lead to statehood for them? Leaving aside the multitude of other reasons why Palestinian statehood is a non-starter the answer in the end can be summed up in one word...genocide.
A Palestinian state would make the destruction of Israel and the expulsion of Jews from the Middle East its first order of business. That's genocide.
That would be its raison d'etre and it wouldn't rest until both were achieved. Genocide would be its aim from day one, and there can be no doubt about that fact at all. If the United Nations sanctioned the creation of a Palestinian state, it would be sanctioning genocide and everything that goes along with it...bloodshed, terror, hate, carnage, war and everything else. Nothing could be more remiss or immoral than that.
Palestinians are maniacs and butchers who want to commit genocide against Jews and Israelis and wipe Israel off the map. The United Nations should reject their entreaties in the name of humanity, decency and morality. If it doesn't, it's no better than they are...if it doesn't its principles and charter are meaningless and aren't worth the paper they're printed on...if it doesn't, it would be sanctioning genocide and everything that goes along with it, pure and simple.
Is genocide acceptable? Do genocidal people deserve a state to pursue their ends? We'll find out what the United Nations thinks shortly.
Jerry Philipson is a retired grandfather who has spent many years working in non-profit social service agencies in Canada and the United States. He holds dual Canadian and American citizenship and has been passionate about politics, civil liberties, freedom and democracy for virtually his whole life. He is particularly interested in the Middle East and America and believes that it is vital for people of good heart and good conscience to speak out against tyranny and dishonesty and to stand up and defend and protect Western values, principles and institutions.
