The role of the U.N. in creating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The United Nations was founded with the stated aim of maintaining peace among nations, but the reality is that not only has it consistently failed to prevent international conflicts, it has had no small part in causing them. One instructive case study was its role in its early years of helping to cr...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Washington report on Middle East affairs 2013-08, Vol.32 (6), p.20-21
1. Verfasser: Hammond, Jeremy R
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The United Nations was founded with the stated aim of maintaining peace among nations, but the reality is that not only has it consistently failed to prevent international conflicts, it has had no small part in causing them. One instructive case study was its role in its early years of helping to create the still-unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The organization's goal is to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained. While it is impossible to know how history might otherwise have unfolded had the UN not played the role it did, it must be recognized that the conflict that still rages today between the Israelis and the Palestinians is in no small part a consequence of the decisions made and actions taken by member states of the United Nations that were contrary to the very principles the organization was ostensibly founded to uphold.
ISSN:8755-4917
2163-2782