Stephen M. Flatow

The U.N. General Assembly has once again stepped onto the stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with grand declarations and high-minded pronouncements. Just last week, it voted to endorse a seven-page declaration that outlines “tangible, timebound and irreversible steps” toward a two-state solution.

The resolution was backed by Gulf Arab states and European powers, boycotted by the United States and Israel, and condemned by Jerusalem as a “publicity stunt.”

And a stunt it is.

It is worth reminding ourselves — and the diplomats in New York — that this is hardly the first time that the United Nations has promised to deliver a Palestinian state. In fact, the very body that gathered on Sept. 12 voted for just that in 1947. Resolution 181, known as the Partition Plan,

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