UN Envoy Prosor: Israel Has No Chance Of Stopping Recognition Of Palestinian State

[Purveyor]

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, sent a classified cable to the Foreign Ministry last week, stating that Israel stands no chance of rallying a substantial number of states to oppose a resolution at the UN General Assembly recognizing a Palestinian state in September.

Sources in the Prime Minister's Office, meanwhile, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering not participating in this year's General Assembly. Instead President Shimon Peres is likely to represent Israel.

Under the headline "Report from the frontline at the UN," Prosor - considered one of the most experienced and senior Israeli diplomats - offered a very pessimistic estimate as to Israel's ability to significantly affect the results of the vote. Even though he did not state so explicitly, Prosor implies that Israel will sustain a diplomatic defeat.

"The maximum that we can hope to gain is for a group of states who will abstain or be absent during the vote," Prosor wrote, adding that his comments are based on more than 60 meetings he held during the past few weeks with his counterparts at the UN. "Only a few countries will vote against the Palestinian initiative," he wrote.

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[Tesha]

1. "Only a few countries will vote against the Palestinian initiative," he wrote.

Watch us do it, though, tone-deaf as we are to the
larger regional situation.

Tesha

[aquart]

2. And the borders of this new nation will be....?

[shaayecanaan]

3. And the borders of Israel are...?

[azurnoir]

4. looks like Bibi will have to on the US to 'save' Israel n/t

[Exilednight]

5. Israel is going to be backed into a corner. As usual, the US will pick the wrong side of history.

[Dick Dastardly]

6. Nonsense n/t

[Exilednight]

7. Care to elaborate?