Palestinians one step closer to having a nation of their own.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/30/us-palestinians-statehood-idUSBRE8AR0EG20121130

Can you imagine if they actually got their state finally?

Why I'd bet they'd be attacked almost immediately and declared dangerous and a bunch of terrorists by the United States and others who really aren't interested in peace and justice, but rather to keep things as they are, because it allows the right-wing elements to remain firmly in control, and to keep people divided, bitter, angry, and constantly full of hate and desire to continue to make war.

Some things don't really change, even after 65 years.

The thing I find fucking hypocritcal about the atypical right-wing responses (""The Palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed save that the prospects of a durable peace have only receded,", "hostile and poisonous," ) isn't the level of projection, but the lack of reason as to what's stalling 'talks'.

It's right in the article. I'll even put it in big bright letters.

"Peace talks have been stalled for two years, mainly over Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which have expanded despite being deemed illegal by most of the world. "

Gee, you think talking to someone who breaks into your house and start building their own inside of it makes you want to talk peace? But that's where things are.

And yet, the Palestinian response has been both clear and careful -

"As long as the Israelis are not committing atrocities, are not building settlements, are not violating international law, then we don't see any reason to go anywhere,"