In its editorial Friday, November 30, The Wall Street Journal notes that had the Arab world voted for the U.N. General Assembly’s Resolution 181, which partitioned British-Mandated Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian states, a Palestinian state would be as old as Israel is today, and within larger borders than the 1949 Armistice lines that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas now claims for his new, notional, “state.” When the U.N. voted in 1947 for partition, the Jews of Palestine demonstrated that they were ready to create a functional state. Last Thursday, the U.N. voted for a “Palestine” that has become a byword for political dysfunction, ideological extremism, and a preference for symbolism over pragmatism. The tragedy of this vote is that it will only encourage Palestinians to remain in their make-believe world.