I did believe the UN should intervene in Israel and finish off a problem they help start. Recent performance shows they are not capable of anything significant.
Israel has had a jaundiced view of the UN since Nasser told them "go away" in May 1967, and they went. The view wasn't improved by the hundreds of anti-Israel UN resolutions, capped off by 1974's "Zionism is Racism".
Nor has recent behavior been better. After Israel withdrew from Lebanon, UNFIL troops patrolled the border. Last year, Hizbollah bribed some Indian UNFIL troops, disguised themselves in UNFIL uniforms, and kidnapped and killed three Israeli soldiers, right under the UNFIL troops' nose. What did UNFIL do? They shot video of the cars used in the kidnapping, then lied to Israel for months about the video, finally turning over to Israel only edited video that didn't show any Hizbollah faces. To do anything else might compromise their "neutrality", don't you see.
My current belief is that there should be two states, and education used as a tool to remove hatred from the communities. The problem should go away in a generation.
Wonderful idea. The Israelis rewrote their textbooks in 1994, noting the claims of two peoples to the land of Israel. The Israeli Right complained bitterly that the textbooks had practically expunged Zionism.
The Palestinians have never published a textbook that has Israel on the map -- in any borders -- and tell their children that only Arabs lived in the country of Palestine from the dawn of time, until the treacherous Jews invaded and stole it. |
