With kind permission to republish from www.palestinechronicle.com
by Jeremy R. Hammond
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Foreign Policy Journal
Special to the Palestine Chronicle.
July 19, 2011
The U.S. has long opposed any “unilateral” action on the part of the Palestinians to seek fulfillment of their right to self-determination, and there is a very real threat that if the Palestinian Authority goes to the United Nations in September seeking international recognition of Palestinian statehood, the U.S. will respond by cutting or eliminating aid that the P.A. has come to depend on in order to function.
