You SOrab veterans are, by and large, a pretty clued in bunch.
I'd like to get a feel for how Americans view the developments following Palestine's application for full UN status.
Has it received much coverage in the US?
Is the reportage on the topic in the media very Israeli biased? (for rather than against)
Barack Obama's speech in the UN regarding this issue went down like a lead balloon for everyone in the rest of the world and confirmed for us non-Americans, that US politicians are enslaved to the powerful Israeli lobby in Washington.

We here in Europe are very sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and their legitimate right to recognised statehood, but unfortunately our political representatives do not mirror this and will more than likely abstain from the Security Council vote, at the behest of the US-Israeli coalition.
If Palestine fail to drum up the 9 votes necessary (Europe has 5 countries out of the 14 with votes. Colorabia also has a vote but will follow the US), then their application will fail without the US having to exercise their veto.
We are very worried by this likely outcome and how Europe will therefore become viewed by the Arab world at our doorstep, destroying diplomatic relations and making the possibilities of hostilities of all forms, war or terrorist based, much more likely to occur in the Euro - Mid East region.

I'd like to know what people outside of political circles in the US are thinking about this issue, particularly since both the US and Europe will effectively be disqualified from mediating any peace talks in the region due to their showing of Israeli bias at the UN. We would then have the situation where the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) begin to be the countries exerting the diplomatic influence in the Mid-East.
This can only lead to more trouble, since the US exerts the military influence in the area.

(+1 rep going for any genuine responses, thanks.)