Writing in Commentary, Jonathan Tobin says that the PA bid for a status upgrade at the U.N. not only doesn’t do anything to move Palestinians closer to a state (which they don’t care about), it also doesn’t do anything to make Fatah look better than Hamas (which is the only real point).

Those worried about Hamas’s ascendancy keep telling us that the only way to answer the Islamist threat is to bolster Abbas’s corrupt and discredited government. That seems to be the motivation for the French whose president, Francois Hollande, is also not adverse to firing a shot across the bow of an Israeli government that the doesn’t like. But as the reservations expressed by the British government — which is equally hostile to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu but more attuned to political reality — make clear, the UN vote won’t bring the region closer to peace.

Source: Stand for Israel

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