How Palestinians will use the GA to advance statehood

Probably the best analysis I've seen on the PLO's strategy for taking the statehood issue to the UN.  I've wondered how they could be seated as a member state without getting UNSC approval, where the US would veto it.  But according to this analysis, that may be the first step in the PLO's plan.  If the US vetoes, the PLO will take the issue to the UNGA under the  Uniting for Peace procedure that the US used to get UN blessing and a UN umbrella for the Korean War.  If the analysis is correct (and it's in today's Jerusalem Post by the editor), it's quite a sophisticated strategy.

How Palestinians will use the GA to advance statehood

By DAVID HOROVITZ 
03/25/2011 15:08

Editor's Notes: Israel’s complacent assumption has been that even an overwhelming vote to establish ‘Palestine’ at the GA in September would have merely ‘declaratory’ impact. Wrong. Jerusalem had forgotten about UNGA Resolution 377.