Palestinian strategy trumps US

Unesco is rewarding moderate Palestinians for their efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the Middle East conflict, and neither the US nor Israel should oppose this, the liberal daily La Stampa comments: "If the Palestinians reach for their weapons there's a hue and cry about how violence prevents peace. If they try to use diplomatic channels it is immediately branded a unilateral initiative that prevents peace. So we'd like to know - in particular from the US, Israel and Italy too, which abstained for the Unesco vote - what the Palestinians are supposed to do. Saying that Unesco's recognition of Palestine is tantamount to a threat is a dubious claim. The new and extremely clever strategy of the Palestinians operates at the heart of the international institutions and the new equilibrium in the world. The US and Israel would do well to recognise the cleverness of the strategy and react with equal cleverness."

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