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Why I Supported The Palestine U.N. Vote

No Devil We Know

Jay Michaelson on how the U.N. vote upgrading Palestine was needed to break a deteriorating status quo.

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Which would you prefer: the stalemate you know, or the change you don’t?In voting for Palestinian statehood—or something reasonably approaching it—the U.N. General Assembly, and the Palestinian Authority itself, has overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

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