UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, told a UN Security Council meeting yesterday that “hell is breaking loose” in Lebanon.
He is right. That is what is happening. And there is only one political leader and his government to blame for it. That is Benjamin Netanyahu and his government in Israel.
That Netanyahu would not end with Gaza - where he must have now realised he can never achieve his aim of eliminating Hamas, however much he destroys that place and kills those who live in it - should have been obvious to all. After all, Netanhyahu's aim is not just genocide and the claiming of territory. His aim is to keep himself in power and out of prison when corruption charges await him after he loses the Israeli premiership. He did, as a result, have to create another war to perpetuate his time in office. That is what he is doing.
What is sickening is that this has been facilitated by leaders like Biden, Sunak, Starmer and Harris. All of them blind-sided by Zionism, they have watched as Netanyahu has killed innocent people to further his own personal gain. They have willingly fallen for his claim of self-defence when what is happening is clearly not that. They have ignored the genocide that everyone else can see. They have appeased a madman in pursuit of power, and history tells us where that ends.
And now we face a massive escalation of conflict in the Middle East with incredibly unpredictable outcomes, not least because it should be impossible for countries like the UK and US to support the terror that Israel is unleashing.
It is not enough for Starmer and other leaders to call for a ceasefire, which is their standard response to almost anything that happens concerning Israel. That's not least because a ceasefire would, in effect, cede control of most of Gaza to Israel and grant it extended power over the West Bank occupied territories, and both of these would be unacceptable, as they should know if they really believe in the two-state solution that they talk about.
What world leaders have to call for now is the return of Israeli troops to their national territory and the presence of UN peacekeeping forces on its borders so that all parties in this area can feel safe in their legitimate territories. But, I stress, those are not the borders of Israel as it now claims them to be, because those boundaries include territory it has no right to occupy.
What those leaders also have to do is make clear that Israel is now a rogue state and that its leadership are potentially committing war crimes for which they will have to be tried. If not, they make a mockery of the international law created to control this very situation.
It will take courage to do the right thing in this situation, including the courage of conviction that Israel does, of course, have the right to be, but not as an aggressor state determined to crush the right of those states that surround it, and those people who have a legitimate right to self-government in the places it would like to claim as its own, but which are not.
Only then will the UK and US also have the moral right to stand up to Hezbollah. Clearly, they are not without fault in what is happening. But the issues that they give rise to, and the problems that they create, cannot be addressed by countries who are so blind-sided by Israel that they lend it their support and supply it with arms whatever it does.
The crisis developing in the Middle East is of Israel's creation. But the appeasement of, and support for, Israel from states like the UK has helped create this situation. We now have a duty to say 'no more' and 'pull right back', backed by actions that make clear where we actually stand, because the aggression of Israel provides us with no other option.
The question is, will we do that, and can people so openly Zionist, as Starmer and Lammy are, really lead us in situations like this, where their objectivity is in doubt? I am very worried.
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What I fail to understand is how British Politics have been hijacked by Zionists.
I also remember Apartheid Era South Africa. To some extent many South African whites were potentially shielded from the consequences of their political decisions by the fact that they were dual nationals. As a result there were many South African families who had left the country when the oldest son had reached 18 so they did not have to serve in the South African military.
In the same way many Israeli’s are entitled to dual nationality. unlike Lebanese and Palestinians they can leave if it all goes wrong.
Partly because of the social tension they causes there was a campaign to deny South Africans their dual nationality, what about something similar now. If you serve in the IDF you lose your British/US/Whatever citizenship rights. You will not be able to escape the mess you are making.
Most people don’t realise that the Labour Party has a history of supporting Zionism. Before WW2 they even voted against the Conservative government proposal to limit the number of Jewish settlers coming in to Palestine. Unfortunately, Starmer is just one in a long line of Israeli government apologists.
Thank you and well noted, Kevan.
Israel, from the 1940s, became an imperial project dressed up as a justice project. It was always an imperial project and is understood as such in the global south / zone b.
Starmer in action:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiza_Shaheen
“In July 2022, Shaheen was selected again by her constituency party to contest the seat at the next general election.[38] However, after the announcement of the 2024 general election, the Labour Party declined to endorse her candidacy, citing ‘recent social media activity’. According to Shaheen, the posts in question were criticising Israel’s actions in Gaza.[39][40] The Labour Party replaced her with a candidate who had no ties to the constituency and was a member of the Jewish Labour Movement, a pro-Israel organisation.[40] Shaheen then resigned from the Labour Party[41] and stood as an independent candidate in the constituency.[42]”
Indeed….
There’s a good history here
https://www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/on-zionist-literature
The author was murdered by Israeli agents and his poor 12 y old niece was with him at the time. More “collateral damage” as the western media would have it
Thank you and well said, John.
It’s astonishing to hear people casually say children, siblings etc. are off to join the IOF. It’s never asked why not stay here and serve God, King and Country, like my father, godfather, grandfather and great uncles.
Have you noticed how Israel often puts natives of Britain (Colonel Peter Lerner) and France (Colonel Olivier Rafowicz, with his younger female deputy, also French) and Australia (Mark Regev, lifelong friend of the Grauniad’s Jonathan Freedland)? This emphasis on PR was an idea from Tony Blair, who else, around the turn of the century.
“puts natives of Britain”
Puts natives of Britain where?
Though my impression is that we see them less and less on the news, certainly compared to back in October/November. We hear far more from journalists on the ground and reports from within Gaza and Lebanon, exposing the destruction, suffering and killing being carried out by Israel.
I just wonder whether organisations like the BBC and Channel 4 for example have realised that the likes of Lerner and Regev have long been congenital liars about Israel’s actions and its consequences. Claims of precision targeting and concern for civilians have been repeatedly shown to be utter nonsense. That and the refusal to acknowledge that Israel’s actions and brutality in Gaza and the West Bank over decades might have anything to do with the brutal outburst on October 7th.
Unfortunately Israel lies to itself as well as to others and many/most of its population are in ignorance or denial about what is being done in their name – and in the name of Jews worldwide. Those few Israelis who dare to describe what is being done are persecuted and hounded by the state – little different to Putin’s Russia. It has become a rogue, terror state – one which deliberately uses the infliction of terror on others. Its claims to be somehow a beacon of democracy in the Middle East are laughable.
Rarely do I comment on Middle East issues but there is a general point here.
The UK’s history rarely allows objectivity on global events…. so it is all the more important that rather than trying to make policy alone (or with one/two allies) we align ourselves with multilateral bodies (mainly the UN) and put our weight behind their decisions.
Clive
I’m with you.
I mean, where do you start? There is so much bad faith, poor decision making and ulterior motives over the years..
Everyone involved is deserving of a bollocking it seems me.
Henceforth, I shall not be commenting on this issue in the future. It’s a cluster****.
And in addition , it seems to contribute to perpetuating and extending the shock waves caused by the Nazis.
I think you’ve got this right. I’ve said similar things on social media.
The US has the power to put more pressure on Israel by stopping the arms transfer. Until they do, the declaration is of limited use. They need to go further but the movement is in the right direction compared to the first few months of the war.
Politicians will move when public pressure mounts.
Without US money and weapons, including the 2,000 bombs used to obliterate civilian buildings in Beirut this past week, Israel wouldn’t last 24 hours. As a US/UK citizen, I blame the US administration for this genocide – it has enabled and encouraged it.
One of my uncles who served in the far East during WW2, commented that when he was sent to Palestine after the War he was looking forward to a period of peace and rest. However he soon discovered that as he said the atrocities he saw there were worse than he’d seen in the Far East.
He never forgive the Zionists for their dehumanising behaviour towards everyone who wasn’t one of them.
Perhaps the world needs to look honestly at how Israel acquired it’s current borders and tell it to get back inside the original borders and disarm.
Thank you and well said, Mark.
My family is Catholic from Mauritius. Many family and friends go on pilgrimage to Palestine and come back outraged at such behaviour. You won’t find fiercer opponents of Zionists (or “fat colonists from Brooklyn pointing guns at children trying to get to or fro school”).
Colonel
I have come across Ilan Pappe an Israeli historian who works at Exeter University. He wrote the ‘Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” in 2007. he had access -with other Israeli historians-to British and IDF archives ( for a while). Also ‘TheBiggest Prison on Earth’ about Gaza and the Occupied territories. Much of it I knew but Pappe writes very clearly.
(I miss Robert Fisk’s spirited journalism)
He has written a shorter book Ten Myths about Israel which tackles the usual stories we hear from the Zionists.
I have had a few debates on social media with supporters of Israel. They seem to, increasingly, rely on demonisation of the Palestinians and. more widely, the Arabs.
Which is very sad as Jews have contributed a lot scientifically, artistically, and in campaigns for social justice. But as Pappe says, Zionism is not Judaism.
My father served in Palestine post 1945 until 1948.
He was not a ranking officer, but ex RAF ground crew.
Like others, he thought he was there ostensibly to protect the relatively small numbers of Jewish settlers being allowed in, and ensure their security, after their sufferings under the Nazis..
What happened was that Zionist terror gangs from the 30s had spent some time arming themselves and Irgun then bombed the King David Hotel, and all British military were then restricted to base in the ensuing panic. Israeli terrorist gangs attacked Palestinian villages and British military with the same Zionist fervour in evidence today, and with the same disregard for human life and the suffering of innocents.
Dad was eventually demobbed (Some Brit soldiers actually had a strike against their leadership, due to not being paid and the slowness of demobbing) with a total loathing of Zionism, and detested most of the Israeli leadership for 50 years thereafter, as the Israeli Prime Ministers were often erstwhile terrorist leaders.
He absolutely loved the Holy Land, as he termed it, but his entire sympathies had turned to being with the Palestinian villagers who had been brutalised by both Brits and Israellis.
He never forgot the Zionist massacres of villages and deliberate targetting of British soldiers to try to get them out of Palestine. knowing their militias were stronger than the relatively disorganised Palestinians.
In 1967 he was grateful that Israel had appeared to secure its stability, but by the 80s was horrified again by the fact that Israel had become a militarist state, and feared, rightly, that the Zionists would never make peace with the Palestinians, as he had encountered their blood lust, brutality and attitudes of racial superiority to the Arab population.
Thanks
I’ve probably posted too much today but I think this is relevant. My Uncle was in Palestine in1918 with the Gurkhas. I recall him saying, ‘Very few Jews there then, Ian’.
In a long conversation about war in Burma, he was quite scathing about Orde Wingate and his use of the Chindits ( soldiers used for long range penetration behind enemy lines)
Before the war Wingate had been in Palestine and given advice to the Haganah -one the Jewish militia groups.
I later learned Wingate was a member of the Plymouth Brethren who never had much following here but the teaching of John Nelson Darby (Anglo-Irish ) were widely disseminated in the southern states if the USA as part of the Schofield Bible notes. The teachings spliced together parts of the Books of Daniel, Revelation and Corinthians to create an End Times narrative. It is Dispensationalism which comes in different versions. It includes the notion of the Rapture -a literal rising up of ‘true Christians’ with the rest of the people “Left Behind’ ( the title of a series of books by Tim le Haye and Jerry Jenkins).
This is a major reason why so many Evangelicals in the US think it a religious duty to ‘stand by Israel’ and vote accordingly. Deference to the religious vote is one of the reasons that US foreign policy has been so one sided and pro-Israel.
Similarly my father was there in the British army in 1948. His views were not dissimilar.
One of the great Israeli hypocrisies is that Israel itself was founded through terrorism and massacres, and those same Jewish terrorists became members of Israeli governments. See also Ireland and South Africa.
A big thank you, Richard.
My father worked in the Middle East from 1992 – 2015, after a quarter of a century in the RAF and 18 months with the Foreign Office. I don’t think the region wants, needs or respects the UK. A period of silence and all that. Sorry. It has come to that. It could be different with Corbyn, who’s hugely respected. Starmer and Lammy? Forget it!
@Colonel Smithers
Re Corbyn, and international respect for him, I have been mocked for posting the following on Twitter and Facebook
“CORBYN AND HIS CRITICS
Every day he proves the evil stupidity of those who opposed and slandered him, by being doubly on the side of right – right “judgement” = politically, and “right” judgement = ethically and morally, just where his puny attackers fail.
For THEY exhibit wrong “judgement” = poor politics, and “wrong” judgement = unethical sociopathy.
Little men and women scrabbling about in the shadow of a political and moral giant!”
I stand by that statement, especially given the woeful behaviour of the current Government, which is most assuredly “scrabbling about” in Corbyn’s shadow.
However, I have also posted the following on Twitter and Facebook
“MY VIEWS ON A CORBYN VICTORY IN 2017
Alas, I have to disagree. I believe he’d’ve lasted a fortnight before being toppled in a CIA-managed “A Very British Coup”, & clapped in the UK’s Guantanamo, HMP Belmarsh, & the country run by a “puppet” appointed by the Crown, under martial law, with no reference to Parliament.”
I am not at all sure about the last, but life would have been made difficult for him
Thank you, Andrew.
I can imagine.
The people mocking Corbyn and you are, frankly, ignorant and should stop embarrassing themselves. I don’t think they understand how the world is changing beyond Europe and North America.
I tend to agree with Richard’s reply and refer readers to https://news.sky.com/story/theresa-mays-brexit-deal-threatens-national-security-ex-mi6-chief-sir-richard-dearlove-warns-11603738. I have come across professionally the son of the former, am aware of the, ahem, influence and note how one of their associates was appointed Johnson’s chief of staff.
Atrocities on the West bank are as bad where Hamas does not reign. The media seems to forget the West Bank.
I’m concerned that the “two state solution”, which is all that’s on the table (even through rejected by both Israel and Palestinians), and which is stalled, will not work anyway. 🙁
It reminds me of the “homelands” of apartheid South Africa. These were areas totally surrounded by the rest of South Africa to which ethnic groups were supposed to move.
Gaza and the west bank seems similar. Given the injustices perpetrated on the Palestinians they are unlikely to accept being effectively imprisoned in these areas. They would just be a breeding ground for more extremists and terrorists. Based on past behaviour, Israel would isolate them from itself making them economically unviable – essentially a failed stated from inception (if it were ever to happen). Then Israel would plead self defence after some other attrociity occurred, invade and occupy the land. The tragic cycle would continue.
I can’t see a solution. Perhaps a unitary state, accepting everyone (Jews and Palestinians) as equal is the only ultimate solution. But I can’t see Israel accepting this anytime soon.
If every other country thinks that the “two state solution” is the only way forward, when, it seems to me, it will not happen and would fail if it did, the conflict will continue.
Am I the only one who doubts the viability of the two state solution?
Thank you and well said, Tim.
As per a comment which included dad working for the Foreign Office, this was in South Africa during the transition from apartheid. He was based in Bloemfontein.
Your description reminds me of the action of the colonialist occupiers of what is now the USA, sending the native population to reservations. Perhaps that is why the US supports the atrocities perpetrated by the Israeli forces – they are reminded of their own history.
No you are not alone.
A number of commentators ,e.g. the historian Ilan Pappe, ( whom I mentioned in another post ) think it must be the long term aim. Surveys. eg PEW showed a level of support, I suggest you google. to se e the level of support.
The degree of violence of the last year makes it less likely.
We could do with a Gandhi . The reason we haven’t seen one may be due to the culture.
The Cohen-Nesbett experiment in the US showed that southerners in the US were more inclined to react to insult by aggression. Their honour would be lost unless they retaliated. John Wayne stuff perhaps. Scholars found it more likely in cultures with a history of herding than planting. That fits with much of the history and culture of the Near and Middle East. This is one reference.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8656339/
The two-state solution will never be accepted.
Israel will agree to it – if it has military over-fly rights, Israeli military border guards and total control over imports into Palestine. Of course those conditions are unacceptable to Palestinians – but the narrative is that “Israel will grant a Palestinian state, it’s Hamas who are refusing that solution”.
But the single-state solution won’t work either. Again, Israel will say that they will accept a single State, it’s the Palestinians who won’t, but they neglect to point out that what the Palestinians won’t accept is second-class citizenship in an apartheid state, where they would be barred from living or travelling in certain areas, barred from education and healthcare…
“Palestinians,” say the Zionists, “won’t negotiate or accept our offer.” And the ‘great powers’ believe them. But the offer of either solution is impossible for Palestinians to sign up to, even though the foreign Press will always lay the blame for the breakdown of negotiations at their door.
So, your answer is?
I remember Nye Bevan saying that the worst thing that the Labour Government just after the Second World War had done was to assist in the creation of Israel. ‘It’s all very well giving a group like the Jews territory, but you have to remember their history as told in the Old Testament. You should not give them that territory in an area where millions already live and have a reasonable living, especially as that population has already had their land fought over by outsiders — I mean the Crusades – and hasn’t yet fully recovered.’ He’d come up to our home on the Welsh Border with Jennie Lee, and was furious about the Suez Crisis – my mother, who particularly disliked Jennie, had gone off to stay with her brother – so that will have been in 1956, and I would have been 10. But I remember Nye’s comments, as well as the passion with which they were delivered. Would that we still had people of his calibre in any of the main political parties today!
But then Nye was a Socialist. And Starmer has eradicated them from the Labour Party.
Thanks
That’s a memory worth having
Well said Richard.
You couldnt get more Orwellian than week after week and month after month @BBC reporting Biden saying US is arbitrating a Gaza ceasefile when , as one columnist put it Biden could pick up the phone and stop Israel in its tracks by halting arms and bombs supply.
Commentators endlessly saying US has no leverage – are never asked ‘woudnt stopping arms supply help?’
US and UK almost totally isolated at UN. As many delegations have said – ‘utter hypocracy’ comparing US/UK response to Russia and Israel.
Talk about a self defeating strategy towards what US/UK call ‘preserving a rules – based’ international order’ !!!!!.
Thank you, Bay Tampa Bay.
I should have added air waves. They are spokesmen and women and felt to be more presentable than natives of Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_insurgency_in_Mandatory_Palestine
What was that figure?
Something like 85% of Hamas fighters have lost a parent or close relative to the Israeli’s
So far from making Israel safer the IDF & the settlers on the West Bank are recruiting sergeants for terrorism.
Thank you, John.
It’s not just Muslims in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon who fight Zionism. Plenty of Christians, often to be found in the PFLP in the case of Palestine, do so.
Sadly, the importance of Israel to the West in supporting their access to oil and gas and general influence in the Middle East will speak louder to the leaders of the Western Empire than the lives of the inhabitants of that area as it always has done. The demise of fossil fuels and the rise of BRICS and their intention to bypass the dollar as the world’s currency will likely be the only way this will change. I wish it were otherwise but the US wields too much power still for other western leaders to ignore them.
No state has a ‘right to be’ – rights are invested in peoples. But those rights cannot be at the expense of other people. Israel practises apartheid within and without the 1967 borders, as all the major human rights organisations say.
After your riddle on antisemitism I’m beginning to feel you should stick to economics!
Your problem, not mine.
And for the record, it’s my blog.
If I was getting things wrong I’d correct them.
I think you are developing a condition we internet doctors call blogarus hubristico.
Wow
Prattishness of a high order on display there, if I might say so
Don’t call again
Thank you to Ian for the tidbit about Wingate and the Plymouth Brethren.
That answers a question. A couple of years or so ago, I went to a talk given by an English actress. Her parents were from that community, but she had moved to London and away from the community. She eventually married an American Jewish director in Los Angeles, converted and espoused strident Zionist views. Liberal on everything except Palestine. I could not understand.
Whilst I do understand it’s almost a year since the Hamas invasion, I felt uneasy about the BBC today, bringing the Israeli perspective, with little regard to what came prior to the attack. The years of apartheid, the horrific displacement and a genocide that started long before the Hamas attack. Those people were neither Jewish or Israeli. They were the people of Palestine.
See,,, my dad would often say they are both as bad as each other. I questioned that, read left to right of the political situation and was horrified. Main stream media and it’s affiliates, will one day be questioned. Hopefully by the world in a court most powerful to suggest we were guilty in all steps of such a narrative and without doubt. Which we are guilty.
You and most of the people on here should be ashamed. Your blog post and most of the comments thereafter are nakedly antisemitic and revel in the tropes peddled by those of your disgusting creed. Have you forgot that it was a terrorist organization steeped in Islamofascism which started this?
Maybe you need a reminder:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0023b3m/surviving-october-7th-we-will-dance-again
The hypocrisy it takes to claim the moral high ground when being openly antisemitic and publishing such vile content is staggering.
You and your followers are disgusting.
With respect, genocide is disgusting
So too is war mongering
I have and will condemn Hamas for October 7
Hezbollah are not innocent of war crimes
But the crimes of Netanyahu are far greater
It is literally anti-Semitic to claim otherwise
And there is very good argument to be made – as it frequently is by Jews – that Zionism is anti-Semitic
I am nit anti-Semitic. But I do condemn all political violence. The approach of those like you who do not condemn genocide whoever does it sickens me.
“We will dance again”
maybe the genocidal Zionists can, but the Palestinians of all ages who have had their legs and arms blown off, will never be able to dance again.
I think it takes more than that to stop people dancing
People seem to have the ability to overcome massive obstacles and still dance
MB
You have outraged me.
It is YOU who are the Fascist because typically all you want us to do is REACT.
Not think, or mull over the facts, pay regard to history, appreciate complexity as means of sorting things out amicably. All you want us to understand is fear and hate. And you call this ‘vile content’? Wow? Thank God for secularism.
You’re nothing but a tool. A Fascist one.
Now go and find some dirty work somewhere else.
Thank you, PSR.
You are correct to highlight dirty work. There are hasbara troll farms.
Thank you, MB.
I won’t add to our gracious host’s reply other than to address your mention of that BBC propaganda / demonisation.
@ Richard and readers. This festival is an annual event and near the border of Gaza. Can you imagine holding Glastonbury next to a prison / death camp? What do people expect?
It’s not the only provocation. Tourists are invited to observe the IOF guarding the camp and shooting at the inmates. One can search online for Hollywood stars Jerry Seinfeld and Debra Messing. What do people expect?
The latest atrocities by the Israelis and their supporters in Washington have reached depths of depravity rarely plumbed in reported history. Some hope for a negotiated settlement which is admirable. However, that seems almost impossible given the desire to eliminate the Palestinians by Netanyahu and the Neo Cons in Washington. I am deeply ashamed of my government supporting and even applauding this genocide.
I have in my possession a chronicle written by Ronald Storrs ,the first Govbernor of Jerusalem after the end of WW1. It describes the actions taken by the British Colonial Government to Israel. One of the first acts was to declare the official language as Hebrew. It put the Arabs at a serious dis advantage. The Jews numbered 29% of the population. The Palestinians were never given the opportunity to put their case before the British Parliament.. The Jews were ,of course heavily represented. The Palestinians organised a delegation to lobby Parliament. On the morning of departure they were prevented from travelling by armed British soldiers. Lots of historical characters are in the chronicle including Herbert Samuel,Gen. Allenby, Churchill and T.E. Lawrence. The latter was a close friend of Storrs. He is described as very disillusioned by the betrayal of the Arabs by the British government. Storrs describes attending Lawrences funeral. The story of occupation does not begin in 1948. It does so in those years described in the chronicle. It does not make pretty reading about British Imperialism. I was fortunate to be educated on the Empire by my Dad who served in the Far East in WW2. When will the world go to the assistance of the Palestinians??
Thank you, Stephen.
As early as the mid 19th century according to documents read by former diplomat and my friend, the blogger Aurelien.
A ticking clock.
Much has been made in the above correspondence and in public media generally, of the genocidal origin of Israel .
For an objective and comprehensive account, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
Aljazeera, by contrast with most public media, has provided a live 24 hour narrative of the ongoing genocidal events in Palestine; https://www.aljazeera.com/
Despite virtually unanimous global condemnation, there is no prospect of Netanyahu relenting unless the US imposes an arms embargo.
Meanwhile, the current US govt. support for the Israeli genocide is a major factor in determining whether Trump wins in the US November elections, a prospect with potentially catastrophic global consequences.
The clock is ticking.
Thank you for bringing up islamofascism. This term was coined by George Bush II’s adviser, Canadian Zionist and now BBC stalwart David Frum to justify the invasion of Iraq. The global south / zone b begs to differ with this prejudice and thinks the zionist state will be as fleeting as the crusader states whose 37 fortresses dot the Levant.
You posted a reply to my description of why neither the two-state nor the single-state solution is workable, and asked, “So, your answer is?”
It’s above my pay-grade, but I would suggest that the UN stops pussy-footing around the Zionist government of Israel. It stepped into the violence in the former Yugoslavia. [I wish it did the same in every conflict, but that’s an aside.]
Create order:
* The State of Israel had clear defined borders at its creation, it should be made to return to those borders – by a UN military force protecting the fully-recognised State of Palestine.
* Sanctions equivalent to those against Iraq at the height of the conflict. (On both sides?)
Create a new order:
* A Peace Conference to establish diplomatic, trade and cultural relations, under UN supervision within the 1948 borders.
* UN-orchestrated reconstruction, preferably with a decently-paid **mixed** workforce.
Reinforce the rule of law:
* Open trial and full enactment of the International Court’s judgments.
Tuppence-worth of meaningless hot air, but I *have* read and thought about it. The current status is obviously not working.
Worthy aspirations, I think