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The UN General Assembly's implicit recognition of Palestinian statehood Thursday isn't a threat to Israel's security, or at best it doesn't need to be.
It may be an instantaneous threat, however, if Israel or its unquestioning allies -- the United States and Canada -- overreact and choose to punish the Palestinians by cutting aid, revoking work permits and imposing a level harder security atmosphere around the unhappy people from the West Bank and Gaza. That may put in place a brand new, much deeper round of frustration or anger that wouldn't be within the interests of either the Palestinians or Israel and it is buddies.
