Israel-Palestine Peace Depends on International Involvement By: - TopicsExpress



          

Israel-Palestine Peace Depends on International Involvement By: Daoud Kuttab for Al-Monitor Palestine Pulse Posted on August 23. One of the longest-standing arguments between Israelis and Palestinians concerns the most efficient mechanism for solving their decades-old argument. Palestinians believe that the conflict is the result of biased and conspiratorial international involvement with one of the parties to the conflict, and therefore, can only be resolved if the international community is actively engaged to fix the situation. Palestinians note that Israel was legitimized through the combination of a United Nations resolution and their abandonment by a colonial power to a people, many of whom had suffered in Europe in World War II. Furthermore, Palestinians believe that Israel’s creation in 1948 — which resulted in the eviction of the Palestinians from their land, creating the refugee problem and the occupation of more Palestinian land in 1967 — has been rejected by the international community in numerous resolutions and treaties that Israel has ignored. Therefore, the same international community has an obligation to this part of the world. Read more: al-monitor/pulse/originals/2013/08/quartet-israel-palestine-peace-talks.html#ixzz2cr76TFpI
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 03:59:40 +0000

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