The Palestinian statehood bid reveals nothing.
I don't mean to make light of the gravity of the Palestinian UN-gambit, but some of the coverage and analysis strikes me as just a bit too breathless. Take this:
Fran Townsend, a CNN contributor on national security issues, said the potential U.N. vote "puts the United States in a very awkward position.""It is a veto that will most certainly undermine U.S. credibility as an honest broker in the peace process," at least in the eyes of the Arab world, Townsend said.
Really? The Arab world thinks the United States is an honest broker? Since when?
The frenzy of diplomatic activity around the Palestinian statehood bid is also a reminder of what an immensely unproductive endeavor it is for the United States to insert itself into the middle of an intractable standoff.
