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A Stinging Defeat for Abbas, but No Great Victory for Israel

Many months and innumerable headlines in the making, the Palestinians’ bid to impose terms for statehood upon Israel via the United Nations ended in embarrassing failure on Tuesday night, when the Security Council rejected Resolution S/2014/916. The U.S. didn’t even have to wield its veto. Their defeat was unexpected and stinging.