New years resolutions like those made in the UN.

What's happened to the United Nations? It's been awhile since they passed their last anti-Semitic/anti-Israel resolution. Gosh, people might forget that its Anti-Jewish and Anri-Israel bias not changed one bit for the past 50 years.

The examples are numerous, but, perhaps what event sums it up best is when the U.N. General Assembly passed the infamous and outrageous resolution that equated Zionism with racism in November 1975.

What is even more damning are the 43 U.N. resolutions condemning Israel for human rights abuses, when not a single condemnation was ever passed against such human rights "champions" as Cuba, China, North Korea, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran and even Iraq.

The Oslo Accords were a seven-year experiment in Palestinian self-government that demonstrated, quite clearly, a failure at self-government and a failure to rehabilitate the Palestinians' hatred of Israel.

Palestinians do have rights, but these rights do not include the right to preach the destruction of Israel and hatred of Jews, and to commit acts of terrorism.

Palestinians have yet to demonstrate that they are serious about coexisting with Israel by ending terror attacks. Lest one give credence to the claim that the Palestinian Authority "lacks the resources" to fight terrorism, consider this: Under Oslo, the PA had a 42,000-person security force -- nearly twice the number it was supposed to have -- and still did nothing to stop terrorism.

Palestinians living in Israel now have far more rights, feel safer and have a higher standard of living than anywhere else in the Middle East.

In retrospect, the best thing that could have happened for Palestinians would have been for Israel to annex the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, instead of propping up a terrorist organization (the Palestine Liberation Organization) as their de facto government in the hopes that they would reform.

It never happened, and there are no signs that it ever will. The PA will never morph into the kind of responsible government that it takes to run a democratic state.

Simply electing a new prime minister and rehashing failed "land-for-peace" schemes won't work either. What is needed is a total change in the way Palestinians (and other Arabs) view themselves and their Israeli neighbors.