Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Just what is Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas thinking? At the new United Nations session, he
has announced, the Palestinian National Authority will ask the
Security Council to recognize Palestine as a state. The
application will be dead on arrival: the U.S. has already said
it will veto.
Abbas, in other words, wants to lose. The veto, he must
hope, will tell the world that Israel, backed by the U.S., is
the barrier to peace.
