The United Nations Security Council

At the end of the 1990-91 Gulf War, the Security Council passed Resolution 687, which set out the terms that Iraq’s leader Suddam Hussein was to comply with. The resolution required the destruction of all chemical and biological weapons, and ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 kilometres and required Iraq to submit to a rigorous UN inspection system. Inspections were conducted by United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and later the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) throughout the 1990s to the US-led invasion 2003. The UNSC has proved to be an effective legal response to monitoring conflict and maintaining world order as no ‘weapons of mass destruction’ were found after the American invasion in 2003.

The Security Council is structured in a way that it is only able to endlessly function if there is a representative from each member state at the United Nations headquarters, this is so that if an important issue arose and there was a call for a meeting all the members states are able to cooperate and contribute equally to help resolve the issue. The Security Council became more active after the cold war, it is the only body in the world which is able to tell member states what to do without their consent. Within the Security Council there are fiver permanent members; United Kingdom, Unites States of America, Russia, France and China, these five

“The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achieving world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries and to provide a platform for dialogue” .

“For nearly half a century – almost as long as the United Nations has been in existence – the General Assembly has recognized the need to establish such a court to prosecute and punish persons responsible for crimes such as genocide. Many thought… that the horrors of the Second World War – the camps, the cruelty, the exterminations, the Holocaust – could never happen again. And yet they have. In Cambodia, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Rwanda. Our time – this decade even – has shown us that man’s capacity for evil knows no limits. Genocide… is now a word of our time, too, a heinous reality that calls for a historic response.

The year 1948 witnessed the national independence for Israelis and “Al-Nakbah the disaster” (Sa'di 177) for Palestinian Arabs. Jewish Holocaust, Zionist movement, British interference, Arab awakening, religious conflict and disputes over territory built up into this catastrophic war. In consequence, on the one hand, millions of Palestinian Arabs fled into neighboring Arab countries, refugee camps and western countries (Mattar 395). On the other hand, militarization and securitization in Israel disrupted the normal life of its citizens (Éigeartaigh and Getty 18).

They would done everything in their power to enforce the resolution. Since the UN did not enforce the resolution, the Israelis took it upon themselves to set up their government in Jerusalem. It’s apparent the Israelis knew that the UN did not have the back bone to enforce the resolution and they could do as they pleased. If only the UN would have stuck to their guns and force the Israelis to comply to resolution 186 (S-2). Situations in The Middle East with the Israeli sand the Palestinians may have resolved some of the issues that are affecting them today. Is it safe to say, the UN is a big joke who can come up with resolutions, but are not willing to take hard stances on the ones who are going against their

Britain renounced its Mandate over Palestine on the 15th May 1948. The UN Special Commission on Palestine (UNSCOP) had voted in 1947 for a Partition Plan to divide Palestine into Arab and Jewish states with Jerusalem as an international zone. Mansfield writes that as the British administration left, “communal fighting broke out immediately and soon developed into full-scale civil war … some three to four hundred thousand refugees streamed in terror towards the neighbouring Arab countries”. On the 14th May the State of Israel was declared and recognised by the UN, leading to what would arguably be the greatest barrier to Middle Eastern peace – the 1948 War, known to Israelis as the War of Independence and to Arabs as al-Naqba (the Catastrophe).

The United Nations was formed in 1945 after World War II, it has 192 member nations, and it was made to prevent any future wars. The U.N. maintains international peace and security, protects human rights, deliver aid to people that need help, and they uphold international laws. They have accomplished some of these things, but they have also had their share of mistakes. The U.N. has many strengths, but is also has many weaknesses.

The 1967 war, also known as the six day war, was a continuation of the conflict between the Arabs and Jews. This war is significant because it helped reshape the political landscape of the region, and the reconfiguring of the Israeli borders due to the occupation by Israel after they defeated the Arab states in six days. The war also established Israel as a superpower in the middle east as they defeated Egypt, Jordan, and Syria and occupied the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Golan Heights. Although Israel, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt were the combatants in the development of this war, outside influence from the United States and the Soviet Union was present as they supplied arms for Middle Eastern states. This essay will analyze events that led Israel to defeat the Arabs analogous to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

The United Nations is a global organization that works to help governments solve problems by finding agreements. It was founded in 1945 on the idea of promoting peace and human rights. There are 193 member states of the United Nations today that all help to work towards the common goal of eliminating issues of humanity. The UN makes decisions through the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and more. The General Assembly is the only UN body that represents all member states. Each year a general debate is held where questions on security, peace, admission of new members, etc. are discussed to come to a solution or agreement. More complex situations such as questions on, peace and security, admission of new members and budget specificities must be a two-thirds majority vote to pass, but simpler questions pass by simple majority. The UN gives each member state a vote because of the universal representation that the General Assembly provides. Therefore, the topics voted on are a shared agreement as each of the member states understands that

Michael B. Oren, a American-born Israeli historian, takes at the time recently declassified archival documents from the Arab nations, Israel, USSR, Soviet, and USA to attempt to compile a comprehensive book that contains a balanced study of the military and political facets of the war, the interplay between its international, regional, and domestic dimensions, a book intended for scholars but also accessible to wider readership. Oren begins his discussion with a concise yet comprehensive history of the events leading up what is commonly referred to as the Six Day war or June War. From this Oren is seeking to illustrate that the Arab- Israeli conflict occurring the June 1967 war is not a spontaneous event but rather a long history or connection

The nature of Israel’s involvement in the 1967 June War can be aptly portrayed as both a prime example of pre-emptive self-defence of the nation and as a rapacious campaign of self-interested opportunism. A central tenet of the Israeli position that Arab encroachment posed a danger to the continued existence of Israel is that the short and long term consequences of Israel not acting decisively were disastrous and had to be avoided. The partisan essence of the Six-Day War is exemplified through the Arab narrative’s empathetic denial that Israel acted defensively and their testimony that the actual aggressor in this conflict was Israel. Primary source documents, particularly declassified intelligence reports, provide a unique prism through which one can deconstruct some of the underlying principles that steer Israel’s justifications of war against its foes. Likewise, the rejection of elements of Israel’s narrative by esteemed Israeli’s such as Yitzhak Rabin and Abba Eban indicates that certain facets of its conduct in the June War cannot be reasonably understood as being defensive. International law, which has a chief objective of resolving global

The first source which will be evaluated in depth is United Nation’s New York, The Questions of Palestine and the United Nations, published in 2008. The origin of this source is valuable because it was written by the United Nations in New York, which is a well-known organization and trusted by many around the world. Moreover, the year of publication, 2008, strengthens the value of this book because the Gaza War took place late that year. This gave the United Nations the ability to write about and analyze the wars and peace treaties involving Israel and the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) and other countries in the past few decades. The authors had the time to analyze and collect a lot of data to form this book.

The Arab Israeli conflict is one of the major dilemmas in the world in the modern history. Many political leaders assume that this is the most complicated conflict around the world, even bigger than Cold War. During the 1960’s and the 1970’s, the Arab world decided to go with confrontation and fight fire with fire. The Middle East became a war zone where all the Arab countries lined up to win back Palestine. However, the Israeli cabinet was smart enough to maintain their presence in the Palestinian Land. Nevertheless, many Arabic Leaders did not manage the war against Israel vigorously.

the first united nations’ achievement, that make the largest claim on the organization’s budget is, peacekeeping. (shapiro and Lampert, n.d., p. 195)This organization is one of the powerful in the UN that has helped in many cases to turn the situation from conflict to peace . (“What is peacekeeping? United Nations Peacekeeping,” n.d.).During its sixty years the UN lunched more than fifteen peacekeeping missions, many of which are still existence. (shapiro and Lampert, n.d., p. 196) . according to MILJANOVIC, M. and LAPAS, D.,’’ The nature of armed conflicts has changed significantly since the establishment of the UN, as well as the political context in which the Charter was created. Between 75 and 80% of all the armed conflicts after the WWII fall into the category of non-international conflicts and about 80% of the total casualties result from such strife’’. Moreover, the United Nations’ law must be publicly promulgated and be consistent with the stander of international human rights. (“What is peacekeeping? United Nations Peacekeeping,” n.d.)