In their recent article in the New York Times, entitled “Ten Reasons for a European ‘Yes’”, Martti Ahtisaari (former president of Finland and U.N. mediator, and 2008 Nobel Peace Prize laureate) and Javier Solana (distinguished senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, former secretary general of NATO and EU high representative for common foreign and security policy) provided their ten reasons why a bid for UN membership for Palestine to be presented my Mahmoud Abbas to the General Assembly these days should be supported and why the European Union should seize this opportunity to confirm their commitment to the…