If Palestinians Truly Want a State, They Should Build One
Zionists had built a stable democracy before independence.
November 30, 2017
If Palestinians Truly Want a State, They Should Build One
Zionists had built a stable democracy before independence.
The Israeli delegation to the UN organized a reenactment on Tuesday of the historic 1947 vote in which the world body approved the plan to partition Palestine. On Wednesday, the UN General Assembly observed its “international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people”—in which, as Benny Avni puts it, the UN remembers “one of the only consequential decisions [it] ever took by celebrating those who rejected it.” Yet, Avni writes, although recognition from Turtle Bay has become a focus of Palestinian aspirations, it is hardly a sufficient condition for statehood:
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