PATHETIC – AT 11:24 A.M. ET:  Did you ever think you'd see the day when the "Palestinian Authority," a fraternity of goofballs, corruptionists and career politicians, who depend on foreign handouts, would verbally threaten the United States?  Well, it's happening, and it shows what occurs when an American president projects weakness.

The PALs are defying American wishes by asking the UN Security Council to declare them a state, even though they refuse to engage in direct negotiations with the Israelis over the terms of a state.  The US has properly announced it will use the veto to thwart this absurd request.  From the Jerusalem Post:

The Palestinian Authority on Saturday warned the US against using the veto to thwart its plan to seek membership for a Palestinian state in the UN next week.

The PA said that a US veto would "destroy" the two-state solution.

The warning came hours after PA President Mahmoud Abbas announced in a speech in Ramallah that he would ask the UN Security Council to accept membership of a Palestinian state.

Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat warned that the US Administration's use of a veto to foil the PA move would destroy the two-state solution.

"Anyone who supports the two-state solution should back the Palestinian effort [at the UN]," he said.

Erekat hinted that the Palestinians would consider dismantling the PA if the US thwarted their statehood bid.

Is that a threat or a promise?

Zakariya al-Agha, the PLO's top representative in the Gaza Strip, also warned against the consequences of a US veto at the UN next week.

He said that the PA was going to the UN because US President Barack Obama, in his last speech to the UN in 2010, talked about the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state within one year.

COMMENT:  Amazing how they quote Barack Obama, who now says he's opposed to what they're doing.  It shows they simply don't take the man seriously.  Does anyone any longer?

The U.S. will veto the proposal, but the General Assembly, which cannot grant full membership to a nation, will vote the PALs some kind of junior status, itself a reckless act. 

And another nail in the coffin of a UN that has long outlived its usefulness.

September 17, 2011