Now, with negotiations at an impasse, settlement building continuing unabated, no end in sight to the never-ending humiliation of occupation, and all other forms of leverage evidently exhausted, the Palestinians are going to the United Nations to seek recognition in some form of their statehood. They want full UN membership, but – facing inevitable veto of that option by the United States in the Security Council – are willing to accept as a fallback a majority vote by the General Assembly recognizing Palestine as a non-member “observer state,” the status now enjoyed by the Vatican.
如今，谈判已经陷入了僵局，犹太人定居点建设方兴未艾，以色列仍在不断地用强占来羞辱巴勒斯坦，巴勒斯坦被逼上了绝路，不得不寻求联合国承认其某种形式的国家地位。他们希望获得完全的联合国成员资格，但是——显然，美国一定会在安理会中投否决票——如果联合国大会多数赞成承认其为非成员国的“观察员国”（与梵蒂冈类似），巴勒斯坦也能接受。