Don't say that I didn't warn you

I have been warning for a while, most recently here and here that the United Nations no-fly zone over Libya could become a precedent for one over Gaza and/or Israel as a way of stopping Israel from hitting back at the Hamas terrorists that daily fire rockets at Israeli civilians.

So reading this Telegraph story does not fill me with confidence. Apparently:

'The Palestinian Authority is ready to govern its own country, a United Nations report said on Tuesday, paving the way for the general assembly to declare an independent state later this year. '

Yes that's right, it seems that 'legitimacy' will be given to the murderous terrorists of Fatah who still refuse to recognise Israel's right to exist:

"Fatah is not responding [to the Goldstone Report], is not apologizing, is not sorry, and does not recognize Israel. It is the PLO that negotiates on behalf of the Palestinian people." Ahmad Assaf, Fatah spokesman: 8 Feb 2010

Yasser Arafat after signing the Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn in 1993, "Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel."

and to those of Hamas who make even less pretence of being willing to coexist with Israel:

"The time will come, by Allah’s will, when their property will be destroyed and their children will be exterminated, and no Jew or Zionist will be left on the face of this earth." Ziyad Abu al-Haj, Hamas cleric in Friday sermon 3 April 2009

"Regarding the Jews, our business with them is only through bombs and guns... the prophet [Muhammad] promised that we will fight you, with Allah's help, until the tree and stone say: "Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him." Nizar Rayan, Hamas religious and military leader, 1 Jan 2009

"We find occasional condemnation and denunciation of the resistance operations and bombings [suicide attacks], carried out by Hamas and the Palestinian resistance branches... [Eventually] everyone will know that we did this [suicide attacks] only because our Lord commanded so - 'I did it not of my own accord' [Quran] - and so that people will know that the extermination of Jews is good for the inhabitants of the world." Source: Al-Rissala (Hamas weekly), 23 Apr 2007

"The Jews are the Jews. There never was among them a supporter of peace. They are all liars… They are terrorists. Therefore it is necessary to slaughter them and murder them, according to the words of Allah… It is forbidden to have mercy in your hearts for the Jews in any place and in any land. Make war on them any place that you find yourself. Any place that you meet them – kill them. Kill the Jews and those among the Americans who are like them… The Jews only understand might. Have no mercy on the Jews, murder them everywhere." Dr. Ahmed Yousuf Abu Halabiah, a member of the Palestinian Sharia (Islamic religious law) Rulings Council, and Rector of Advanced Studies at the Islamic University: 13 October 2000

This will not end well, but could well end with Israel being destroyed. However that could well be what the majority of the United Nations member countries want, so should be allowed to get their way? One Jewish state surrounded by dozens of Muslim states.