Ziad Asali of the American Task Force for Palestine predictably opposes the U.N. statehood resolution in the Washington Post today, an op-ed. But he makes this interesting point:
Last year the United States vetoed a resolution regarding Israeli settlement activity. Despite some Palestinians’ claims of a political victory, the cost of that defeat was enormous. Since then, Israel has effectively had a free hand in settlement expansion, with virtually no international, and even muted Palestinian, objections. If the veto on the settlements resolution effectively killed that issue, what would the consequences be of a veto on a statehood resolution?
