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Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-halevi-israel-20110920,0,6085772.story
The Coming UN Debacle
(Los Angeles Times) Yossi Klein Halevi - A UN vote that seeks to bypass negotiations and impose a fait accompli on Israel will only undermine a two-state solution. By deepening Israel's isolation, the vote will reinforce the sense among Israelis that this is not a time for concessions but for resolve. A majority of Israelis supports a two-state solution. But that same majority also perceives a Palestinian state as a potential existential threat. Even primitive missiles launched from the West Bank hills against greater Tel Aviv would end normal life there. In endorsing an imposed solution, the General Assembly would be telling Israelis that their security concerns are irrelevant. It is, in other words, far more important to the UN to create Arab state No. 22 than it is to ensure the safety of the lone Jewish state. With its disdain for Israel, the UN has invalidated itself as a forum in which to try to heal the Arab-Israeli conflict. The UN condemns Israel more often than all other countries combined. That is not mere hostility but pathological obsession. When the international community treats the Jewish state with contempt, Israelis tend to reciprocate.