As Israel is permitted to continue its daily slaughter in Gaza, it’s hard not to look at the current push to recognize Palestinian statehood as a cynical way for Israel’s backers to delay doing anything substantive to stop it.

Palestinian statehood is a big deal. You can’t have the much-vaunted “two-state solution” without it, and Israel and its US lobby have fought hard against it ever happening, maybe most famously pressuring Barack Obama into scuttling a 2011 bid at the United Nations. Just last year, the US government again singularly vetoed an attempt to bring the issue to a vote at the UN General Assembly — meaning, to have all the world’s states vote to decide the matter, something the Palestinians would have easily won given that 140 of the UN’s 193 member countries already recogn

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