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A Jew living in Berlin after the election of Hitler is walking in the downtown area. In the park he sees an old friend from his synagogue reading the Nazi newspaper.

He accosts him: “What is wrong with you reading that Nazi garbage, don’t you know it’s full of lies and hatred for us?”

His friend replies “I know, I know. When I read the Jewish press I get very depressed. So much bad news. Constant reference to how weak we are. How much danger we are in from the new government, its distressing and depressing! But when I read the Nazi press I learn that we control the world, that we are the most powerful people on the earth, it makes me feel good. I prefer their version of our situation than ours”

Often reading some of the Israeli press I feel myself in a somewhat similar situation to our fellow Jew on the bench in Berlin. Only the roles are reversed if not confused.

Here we are now, just a few days away from a political, diplomatic tsunami. While we know where it will begin, who will be involved, we really have no idea where it will lead, what can or will happen along the way.

Yet we have our encouraging press to read, and our now optimistic Prime Minister to reassure us. No matter how many times we are comforted that this Palestinian ploy will net them nothing that they will suffer further disasters as a result, that they had better stop now…that they are making a BIG mistake, a major tactical error, a terrible error of judgment there remains, at least for me, a general feeling of dread.

At the “Palestinian Statehood Initiative: A Guide for the Perplexed” event, which I briefly reported on in my last post, I heard Professor of International Law Michla Pomerance, explain how toothless a UN General Assembly resolution can be. Dr Tal Becker seemed to agree with her. The next week I heard the enthusiastic response Danny Dayan Chairman of the Council of Judea and Samaria received when he proposed annexation Judea & Samaria in response to the Palestinian move. There was of course no thought to the responsibility we would then be undertaking. There have also been exuberant calls in the US as well as Israel to cut off funding to the Palestinians if they dare follow through on their UN plan…great idea, but to what results. Let us remember and consider; in the middle-east the Law of Unintended Consequences rules nations and the best laid most clever plans.

The Jerusalem Post treated us to Martin Sherman [PALESTINE a nation? UN-nation; un-nation; non-nation; anti-nation >(http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=238146) assuring us, in the Palestinians own words that they are not really a nation, that their true intention and aspiration is not the creation of an honorable peace loving member of the community of nations, but by their own admittance what they continue to seek over the years is to destroy the Jewish state. For me this is not news, obviously this information, these quotes from the Palestinians themselves, should deter any decent, truthful, honorable nation from voting in favor of Palestinian statehood. But we know, that will not happen. Under any circumstances, no matter the truth, next week Palestine will become an internationally recognized member of the (dysfunctional) family of nations. Or should we say a member of “The Circus of Nations”