Should International forces be sent to Israel to bring Peace there?

Question

The division of the former British mandate of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel in the years after the end of World War II have been at the heart of Middle Eastern conflicts for the past half century.
The creation of Israel was the culmination of the Zionist movement, whose aim was a homeland for Jews scattered all over the world following the Diaspora. After the Nazi Holocaust, pressure grew for the international recognition of a Jewish state, and in 1948 Israel came into being. Much of the history of the region since that time has been one of conflict between Israel on one side and Palestinians, represented by the Palestine Liberation Organisation, and Israel's Arab neighbours, on the other. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced, and several wars were fought involving Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.


Jerusalem's Temple Mount, or Haram al-Sharif


In pictures: Jerusalem's religious sites
Palestinians in the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, have lived under Israeli occupation since 1967.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/803257.stm

Answer 1

Sassy (hope you don't mind the nickname)
The UN has been pressuring Israel for YEARS to be allowed to send a peacekeeping force.
Israel has steadfastly refused, which is quite a strong indication that it wishes to keep it's Poor Little Me "victim" status alive and well. Israel doesn't want peace; peace would take away all Israel's so-called reasons for confiscating more and more Arab land.
Not to mention that Israel doesn't want the rest of the world---the U.S. in particular---to witness its attempts to eradicate the Palestinian people.

Answer 2

And do international peacekeeping forces have a better track record than the Israeli army?

What I mean by that is... if terrorists strike at Israel would an international peacekeeping force do anything about it? And if Israel decided to do something about it, would that force hinder Israel?

Try learning something from Lebanon and the track record of the forces kept there by the UN. They have been useless.

And one last thing, you quoted:
"Palestinians in the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, have lived under Israeli occupation since 1967."

Interestingly, it doesn't mention the state of Palestinians before 1967. Were they living under occupation then too?

Answer 3

they might herald U.N. squaddies to maintain the peace. U.S. squaddies must be between them. The U.S. have already got airplane companies in the final section masking our operations in Iraq and preserving a watch on Iran. Any U.S. involvement would be heavily measured. the huge problem would be accommodating the huge numbers of refugees and preserving Hamas from slaughtering them. Israel has Apaches, and this is not improbable that different international places and/or the U.N. will grant extra ones for the risk-free practices of refugees. [Israel IAF AH-64A "Peten" ??? Apache Longbow on the international Aerospace Exhibition 2006. The Israeli Air stress makes use of the Apache to strike quite a number of objectives with guided missiles. The AH-64A attacked and destroyed a number of Hezbollah outposts in Lebanon throughout the time of the Nineteen Nineties, attacking in lots of climatic situations — day and nighttime. throughout the time of the al-Aqsa Intifada, the IAF used the Apaches to kill senior Hamas figures, which incorporate Ahmed Yasin and Adnan al-Ghoul, with guided missiles. in the Israel-Lebanon conflict of July – August 2006, 2 IAF AH-64A helicopters collided, killing one pilot and wounding 3, all severely. In yet another incident in the conflict, an IAF AH-64D Longbow crashed, killing the two pilots, by way of a malfunction in the rotor hub.] on the value that Israel is putting off Hamas' missiles and ammo dumps, Hamas would be all the way down to small arm quickly.

Answer 4

International forces are worthless. If they had been effective, we would not have had the recent conflict with Lebanon. Israel tried to defend itself until an adequate peace force arrived in Lebanon, but it took weeks to get a partial force in place. I haven't seen anything about it in the news recently, but I doubt that the full force has ever arrived. The UN cannot be effective until the international community decides that they truly want peace in the area.

The UN replaced the IDF at the Egyptian/Gaza border after Israel withdrew from Gaza, but they could only handle it a few weeks before they turned it back to the IDF because they were being attacked.

“We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”
Golda Meir 1957, before the National Press Club in Washington
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Answer 5

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism."

- PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, 1977

Answer 6

International forces in places like the West Bank and Gaza will only work if they actively disarm militant organizations.

If an international force replaces the IDF in an area, but their are still armed groups that attack Israel via rockets or weapons fire at civilians then that international force will only become a human shield for those militants and exacerbate the problem not solve it.

Answer 7

No. International forces in the Middle East have a bad track record; unless those forces are willing to put in the hard and dangerous work of disarming terrorists (including searching for them amond the civilian populace) then they wouldn't help at all.

Answer 8

Yes but after Israeli withdrawal from all the occupied territories including Jerusalem.The International forces should stand on the border line of 67 to protect the Palestinian land they are the under dog not the Israeli who are confiscating Palestinian land by the hour.

Answer 9

I think you mean well, I really do. But I don't think you understand the situation. There has been no peace, and theer will not be peace, because a peace would halt israel's ability to take over further land.

Make no mistake about it. This is a fight to the death.

Answer 10

oh ........you should ask:
Should international forces be sent to PALESTINE to bring peace there?
the Palestine is Arab`s home & zionists occupy there.
many counties in Middle east want finnish this war but some other countreis interfere &dont let them do this!
the ones who help Israel destroy Labenon.
we hope to have peace in our land(Middle east).