The term “unilateral” now takes its place alongside “negotiations” as bafflegab.
“Negotiations” now means “ultimatum” and “unilateral” now means “multi-lateral.”
The Oslo Accords were signed by Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which has broken them dozens of times but has substituted Israel by making the United Nations a virtual co-signatory, with a wink and a nod from an Obama administration desperate to force Israel to swallow the sword by massaging Jerusalem’s forehead with an electric prod and calling it alternative medicine.
The European Union on Wednesday set the tone for the Palestinian Authority resolution, the language of which is not yet known.
It voted 498-88 in favor of a resolution that accepts “in principle recognition of Palestinian statehood and the two-state solution, and believes these should go hand in hand with the development of peace talks, which should be advanced.”
That innocent term “peace talks” is a synonym for “negotiations,” which the Obama has promoted to prejudge the outcome by backing the Arab world’s demand for borders, for the time being at least, to be drawn along the 1967 Green Line that the Arabs never accepted because they never have accepted the existence of the State of Israel.
The Obama administration is lying through its teeth by saying that a “unilateral” move is one that “prejudges” the results of talks because the president specifically has said what the results should be.
He and Kerry are playing linguistic footsie by ostensibly opposing a U.N. resolution “recognizing a Palestinian state,” which is exactly is the goal they are making inevitable by re-defining the term “unilateral.”