RE; National Post 11/11/11 - A12 Palestinian bid for UN membership

To suggest, as this article does, that the Palestinians have a "growing frustration at the deadlock in peace negotiations with Israel" is ludicrous.

They were given many opportunities for peace and their own nation. Instead they rejected the offers, started intifadas, and insisted that their peace agreement include the destruction of Israel. There is no Israeli apartheid. There are no "settlements" only peaceful Jewish villages. There is no Palestinian desire for peace, only good propaganda, anti-semitism and a desire to destroy Israel

The U.S. failure in the Israeli=Palestinian negotiations

The U.S. can't fail in negotiating a treaty between the Palestinians and Israel. It is only the intermediary - the helper in the negotiations. It is Israel and the Palestinians who have failed. Israel has offerred to negotiate, but the Palestinians insist that all of the West Bank belongs to them, that East Jerusalem belongs to them, that complete repatriation of their displaced persons is necessary, and that the objective to destroy Israel is to remain in their constitution. The Palestinians know that Israel cannot and will not consent to these requests. So, it is the Palestinians who have failed and caused the negotiations to fail. Strangely enough, Israel gains by this as it will continue to claim more and more of the disputed territory, and offer less and less of it for a very questionable peace agreement