I see you’re going to garner the usual down-dings.

Anyway, I do agree that Netanyahu is an especially ineffective international player, and that he has not strengthened Israel’s international relations.

The only nations voting against this measure - Canada, the Czech Republic, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Panama - did so either because they are US dependencies or because (in the case of Panama, Czechs, and Canada) those nations’ own foreign policies are directly dependent upon US foreign policy.

IOW, the no votes were not in support of Israel, but in support of the US.

If the day ever comes when there is a US President who really doesn’t care to cater to American conservative Christian religious sensitivities (and note that even President Obama has very carefully tread the boundaries of the religious beliefs of the majority of Americans) and decides that fighting at the UN for Israel isn’t in the best interest of the US then what little resistance there is at the UN for propositions such as these will disappear.

This is why Netanyahu works the American religious right scene - it’s his only real leverage on the world scene.