Why Israel Says No to Peacekeepers?
June 30th, 2001 by ktula
“Has Nazism become the sole norm by which Jews judge evil, so that anything that is not its exact duplicate is considered by us morally acceptable? Is that what the Holocaust has done to Jewish moral sensibility?”
– Irena Klepfisz, author of Dreams of an Insomniac
Since the beginning of the current Al-Aqsa Intifada in last September, Palestinians have been demanding an international peacekeeping force be sent to the occupied territories of West Bank and Gaza. During the same time, Israel adamantly rejected any international peacekeeping force. Israel’s permanent Ambassador to the United Nations said that a U.N. force was unacceptable and it “had not been envisaged in earlier peace accords”. Former U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said the U.S. would oppose any force as long as Israel rejects it. Since then, the Clinton administration and the current Bush administration have helped Israel to defeat Palestinian attempts at the United Nations to win Security Council approval for the idea.
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