"If the US chooses to fly in the face of world opinion and block the Palestine UN bid next week, not only will Israel become more isolated but tensions in the region will be heightened even more," said the China Daily.
"The majority of the international community deems an independent state as the inalienable right of the Palestinians,
China paper warns US against Palestinian UN veto - Yahoo! News
It's like the movie "Saving Private Ryan".
Saving 1 interest whilst many other interests get shot during the process.
USA missed the chance to stand with world-opinion and by that to eliminate much of the tension between USA and Muslim World as it withdraws from this area.
As long as the Jews occupy Washington and USA doesn't implement policies, which indicate that it cares for its relationship with 1.X Billion people, events will develop extremely against US's interests in Muslim World which is just at the beginning of "Arab Spring". For the Muslim in Europe, Africa or Asia the number one issue is Palestine and USA stands obviously on the opposite side.
Many Americans believe, that USA will return to its former "glory" and impose its will upon the world. Nothing like that will happen, the "rest of world" simply grows too much and too fast for the USA still to play its role it did play in 2nd half of 20th century.