UN ATT Conference, Day Two: More Palestinians

Day Two: Palestinian Issue Continues to Vex Arms Trade Treaty Conference, Heritage Foundation Foundry, July 5, 2012. "By agreeing to treat the Holy See and the Palestinians as equivalents at the ATT conference, the U.S. has given tacit support to a future Palestinian bid for non-member state observer status. It is unlikely that maintaining a U.S. presence in the room is worth giving the Palestinians this benefit, especially since the final treaty is almost certainly to be ineffective at best, counterproductive at worst."