Is November 29 A Day To Celebrate

By Carolyn Glick

The Jerusalem PostThere is a bit of perverse poetry in the fact that the Annapolis conference is taking place the same week as the 60th anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s resolution recommending that the British Mandate of Palestine be partitioned between a Jewish and Arab state.

What the confluence of events serves to show is just how little has changed in the past 60 years.

Both the 1947 UN resolution and the Annapolis conference are dedicated to the task of forcing the Jewish people to compromise their rights in a bid to appease Israel’s neighbors who still 60 years on maintain their refusal to accept the right of the Jewish people to sovereignty over their land. And both are presented as diplomatic achievements by the Israeli government.

The Olmert government, backed by the leftist Israeli media, has presented the decision of Arab and Muslim states like Saudi Arabia, Syria, Pakistan and Indonesia which do not accept Israel’s right to exist to participate in the Annapolis conference as a major breakthrough. But this is nonsense. The representatives of these states will use their American-provided platform to condemn Israel, just as they use every other available international platform to do so.
Similarly, the Olmert government, backed by Israel’s leftist media celebrates the 1947 UN resolution as if it were the foundation of Israel’s international legitimacy. Not only is this incorrect, over the years, the perception that Israel owes its legitimacy to that UN resolution has had corrosive effect on Israel’s ability to conduct foreign policy in a manner that advances its national interest. This effect is clearly evident in the Olmert government’s handling of foreign policy.

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