Book contents
- The Long Search for Peace
- The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations
- The Long Search for Peace
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Glossary
- Part 1 Actor and observer
- 1 The origins of peacekeeping
- 2 St George and the maiden
- 3 Inventing peacekeeping
- 4 Failure
- 5 Success
- 6 Observing at a critical moment
- 7 An intractable dispute
- 8 ‘Tough men wanted’
- 9 Australia and the problem of Palestine
- 10 The Six Day War and after
- 11 ‘If you’re not confused, you don’t understand the situation’
- 12 Over jungle and swamp
- 13 A reluctant start
- 14 The first decade
- 15 Australia and the invention of peacekeeping
- Part 2 New ambitions
- Part 3 Carrying on
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
9 - Australia and the problem of Palestine
Peacekeeping in the Middle East, 1948–67
from Part 1 - Actor and observer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2019
- The Long Search for Peace
- The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations
- The Long Search for Peace
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Glossary
- Part 1 Actor and observer
- 1 The origins of peacekeeping
- 2 St George and the maiden
- 3 Inventing peacekeeping
- 4 Failure
- 5 Success
- 6 Observing at a critical moment
- 7 An intractable dispute
- 8 ‘Tough men wanted’
- 9 Australia and the problem of Palestine
- 10 The Six Day War and after
- 11 ‘If you’re not confused, you don’t understand the situation’
- 12 Over jungle and swamp
- 13 A reluctant start
- 14 The first decade
- 15 Australia and the invention of peacekeeping
- Part 2 New ambitions
- Part 3 Carrying on
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
No problem has proved more intractable for the United Nations than that of the former British mandate of Palestine. Seventy years after the organisation first dealt with the problem, Israel occupies some of the territory of one of its neighbours, has poor relations with others, and has an unresolved relationship with the Palestinian state that was meant to have been born in 1947, but which has still not successfully emerged into the light. It is possible to argue that UN policy in the area has been wrong-headed from the start: certainly, it has not been successful. Only Kashmir can rival it for longevity on the United Nations’ agenda: seven decades after the organisation took up the issue of Palestine, there is no solution in sight.
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- The Long Search for PeaceObserver Missions and Beyond, 1947–2006, pp. 219 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019