How this plays out:
- Palestinians are given independence
- There’s a stipulation about democracy
- Hamas overwhelmingly wins elections
- Hamas attacks Israel and a new war starts
- Israel overwhelmingly wins war
- Occupied again
This UN vote shows how completely isolated we are from world opinion. Is it because only America is smart enough to understand the Israeli point of view? Or because America's most powerful lobby has dragged us onto the wrong side of history? The answer to that is obvious.