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Israeli forces killed dozens of Palestinians in bloody clashes at the Gaza border Monday in the deadliest day there since the 2014 war, as the US officially opened its Embassy in Jerusalem just 50 miles away. At least 58 Palestinians died, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, during protests over the Trump administration's controversial relocation of the Embassy from Tel Aviv, a move that has been praised by Israelis but has enraged Palestinians. Palestinian officials accused Israel of committing a "horrific massacre" and called on the international community to immediately intervene. The Palestinian Health Ministry said more than 2,700 had suffered injuries, and that many of the dead had not yet been identified.
Questions:
1. Should the UN be involved? What agreement can they make with Isreal and Palestine to make sure this never happens again?
2. Why do you think that Isreal and Palestine still haven't come to an agreement?
3. What has caused the rise of these intentions?
6 comments:
I think the UN has to be involved. The Israelis and Palestinians have proven in the past that they cannot cooperate together. This has been a conflict dating back to the establishment of Israel. I think that a neutral force must intervene and try to get both nations to come together and discuss peace and potential resolutions.
I don't think the United Nations or any other power can help in this scenario-because of the fact that they are biased against Israel, just as the United States would be biased against Palestine. Israel has been specifically condemned in 62 separate resolutions. The rest of the world combined has only 55. The United Nations would not only be powerless to make any real change in the region, but would also be a biased arbitrator, which effectively kills any negotiation.
Here's why the Israelis and the Palestinians haven't come together: Palestine and their arab partners don't necessarily want peace. The central ideological issue with the Palestinian Leadership in regards to the peace process is that Arab leaders do not recognize the right of the for Israel to exist. For example: After the 6 Day War, arab leaders came together in Khartoum, Sudan, and made the 3 'No's against Israel: no recognition, no negotiations, and no peace. And the first place that Israel goes in times like these is to go to the negotiating table. In 1978, Israel gave the entire Sinai Peninsula, an area of land bigger than Israel itself, back to Egypt because Egypt, under new leadership, signed a peace agreement with Israel. Israel gave fifty percent of their entire territory for the prospect of peace. And peace happened: Egypt eventually reneged on the Khartoum Agreement.
Should Israel unconditionally give up her arms, there would be an immediate destruction of the state of Israel and the mass murder of its Jewish population. Should Palestine unconditionally give up her arms, there would be peace the next day.
I honestly don't understand these intentions behind the riots. Palestinian activists and people on the left will tell us that Israel is an apartheid state, where arabs are second-class citizens in Israel. I suggest they have a word with the Arab citizens who enjoy full the full civil rights and protections of any citizen of Israel, or the Arabs who serve in the IDF, or the Arab members of the Knesset, or George Karra, an Arab Israeli who serves on the highest court in Israel. Israel is a liberal diverse multicultural state in the middle east that follows the rule of law-and it may be the only one to do so.
I feel that even with any type of UN kind of involvement it wouldn't cause any type of solution to come to. This type of issue is like that of trying to push magnets of the same charge together-it just wont work no matter how hard you try. The solutions they try to come to wont work as both want the same capital yet only one can hold it and neither will give up on their stance. The United States has already shown that they favor the Israelis rather than side with the Palestinians. Blood will be shed no matter what solution is though of as they've tried and tried again with the same result.
I always think Peace is the best choice, but Israelis defended themselves against Palestinians that were throwing rocks and fighting Israelis with whatever they could. It just happened that Israelis are more armed then Palestinians so they created more damaged on the Palestinian side. We can not judge this only by this event because Israelis and Palestinians have way too much history to understand where both sides come from. I think the UN should engage because the peace is nowhere near them. The Palestinian side was angry that Israel got Jerusalem which is understandable because they wanted it too, but they didn't get it and the best thing to do would be to just accept it and be peaceful but I really doubt it will happen so a third party needs to come and make this peaceful. However we need to understand that this is a war and the sad reality is that throughout the years, both parties had a lot of deaths and if they don't come to an agreement or come to accept what it is right now, this will only get worse. I don't think that Israelis want to hurt anyone intentionally but I also think it would be stupid of them to let themselves get attacked and hurt without doing anything back.
Tensions in this area have been mounting over the past decade and the recent acts of violence show how close to a breaking point this situation is at. I personally believe that Israel currently aided by the U.S. has a large disparity of power. Due to this, I believe the UN must intervene before any more life is lost. The solution to this dispute is a hard one due to the beliefs ingrained in each group's respective religions but must receive outside aide if it is to be completed.
As said before, I think the UN should get more involved in stopping the bloodshed. They should also do more in encouraging and mediating peace talks between the two sides. But because of this long drawn out war, it would be hard for both sides to cooperate with each other. It may be extreme, but at this point, I think that the UN should just force some rules upon them in order to have peace. I don't think there is one specific reason to why tensions rose, I think it is just part of the history of fighting for the land over there and all the holy relics in that area.
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