Israel supports a separate Palestinian state for fairly pragmatic reasons: the birth rate of Palestinians will quickly cause Israelis to be outnumbered if Palestine was absorbed into Israel.

However, the recent vote in the UN to support enhanced recognition of Palestine as a state, implies a few things about those nations that voted in favour of recognition (or abstained from voting.)

Palestine is an undeniable composite of Fatah and Hamas and the recent Gaza conflict enhanced Hamas's stature even if it was badly defeated militarily. Neither Fatah or Hamas is yet the unquestioned government of Palestine, and either could prevail over the other faction under certain circumstances.

Hamas, in its charter, vows the destruction of the Israeli state and the elimination of Jews everywhere.

Therefore, a vote for a Palestinian state implies support for a potential Hamas Government.

None of the votes in support of (or abstention from voting for) the Palestinian State was conditional - that is, none said that "we will vote for recognition of a Palestinian State provided it removes from the Hamas Charter the destruction of Israel and the elimination of Jews." They all voted in favour (or abstained) accepting the Hamas Charter without pre-conditions.

This appears to compound the rabid anti-Semitism currently rampant world-wide and is fueled by two factors:

• the growing influence of Islam and the desire of most countries to "get closer" to Islamic states by appearing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic;
• the myopic uninformed liberal view that everyone deserves freedom, regardless of what they intend to do with that freedom. In their view, it appears that everyone deserves freedom except for Israel and Jews.