It's time for the US to STOP blocking Palestinian statehood at the UN

[Ken Burch]

37. If the UN created a Palestinian state, Hamas wouldn't matter.

They wouldn't be able to claim any credit for it. It would be seen as the work of diplomacy, NOT the armed struggle.
It would have nothing to do with the rockets they fired OR the suicide bombings(or the human shields or any of the other insanity). All of that would be nullified.

Creating Palestine at the UN would make Hamas irrelevant at a stroke.

Attacking Gaza militarily can never have that effect, as the recent attacks just showed. Nor can keeping the people of Gaza penned in. If none of that has changed any of the things about Hamas we both object to, clearly none of that ever can. How many more years of things not changing, of the killing on both sides NOT stopping, has to go on before you can see that?

The fact that Hamas hasn't stopped is proof that the status quo you are defending has failed. You need to accept that if you really care about Israel-and to be willing to try something else.

Staying the course is the definition of insanity.