Jason Smith

Is anyone else watching the unfolding Palestinian statehood vote approaching in the UN?

Now, this isn’t to actually make them a nation state, but to give them a higher status in the UN equal to the of the Holy See (read Vatican).

Isreal has lost its major supporters in the region, and the US has it’s long history of supporting Isreal to reconcile with our diminished influence in the region. We do happen to have the ability to automatically veto this, but if we do that Saudi Arabia has warned that it will make our current relationship as allies untenable.

The problem being that we do need to support this solution as peace talks are not going to happen, and moving towards a split state is the right thing to do. This is a complicated situation where the Palestinians are branded as terrorists in our news, but no mention is given to the things the Isreali army does to them or it’s settling in the territories that are supposed to be Palestinian. Mistakes have been made on all sides.

Say what you will about Zionism, but given the dramatic shifts happening in the middle east I think that now is the ideal time for the US to adjust its strategy in the middle east and cope with the changing realities at the expense of our electorate getting furious about it (read the evangelical movement- who believe that this would be an affront to God and will lead to the actual destruction of the United States by God as punishment)

TL;DR - Things are still complicated in the middle east.