When collaborators and theocrats write peace plans, the result is neither peace nor plan but a bad joke in diplomatic French.
The United Nations has done it again — staged another morality play in its grandiose theater of the absurd. This week’s performance: a resolution, drafted by the peculiar marriage of France and Saudi Arabia, that proposes to recognize a Palestinian state without Hamas involvement. This “New York Declaration” comes garnished with the familiar UN seasoning: pious phrases about peace, vague condemnations of atrocity, and a studied blindness to the actual facts on the ground.
France, ever eager to play philosopher-king on the international stage, is promising formal recognition of Palestine. At the same time, Saudi Arabia, the kingdom that regards women as minor property, is co-sponsor. One could be forgiven for thinking this is satire: a Vichy-flavored Paris and a Wahhabi Riyadh delivering lectures on liberty and democracy.
