Despair @ UN - everything going to plan for Israel

There are observed a wise man, two sorts of people in the world. Those who believe there are two sorts of people in the world, and those who don't.

There is a natural dichotomy in men's minds. Schoolboy and simplistic, as we might be reminded by the tale in "Enemies of Promise" by Cyril Connolly that the embryo historian Steven Runciman when at Eton divided the world into the "stupid and the silly".

Such simple reasoning might however be applied to the authors and audience of the great UN resolution caucus, which the major commentators have elevated into what they like to call a debate , but lesser minds might call an unseemly squabble.

One might reel in despair at the result, should the UN Security Council might be asked to accept the proposition that they vote for "Mom and Apple Pie". The French would vie with the South Africans for desiring the mention of their produce and the Anti-Americans would point out the crypto Fascist nature of the Mothers of the Revolution , whose annual pilgrimage to view the gold at Fort Knox betrays the sinister history of their organisation with it's quasi Masonic rituals and curious dietary requirements.

Of one thing we can be certain, however. The islanders of Micronesia will band together to support whatever the US and Israel decide. Antipodean (it appears to Lord Patel from a brief survey of Earthly topology) to the nascent State of Israel, these latecomers to the Pacific - somewhat less recent than the arrival of Jews in Palestine, who derive an income solely from the rental of the oceans adjacent to their precarious rocks, which they allow the US to discharge ona weekly basis immense ICBM's from Fort Greeley in Alaska and Vandenburg (Now the Ronnie Regan Memorial site) in California are unswerving supporters of Israel.

That is of course if the lawyers in New York ever get round to a proposition and a vote at the NY talking shop. Even lawyers and diplomats take holidays sometime.