U.S. Involvement

50) Didn't the UN create Israel? Why didn't they create Palestine?
The UN did create Israel. They came up with a two state plan giving 48% of the land to Israelis who at the time only occupied 7% of the land. They did this as repentance for the Holocaust and because the Jews had no homeland of their own. A state was not created for Palestine because the Palestinians could not agree on the terms for a separate state and they had never been their own state before.
51) Why is Israel criticized when other countries have committed human rights violations?
Israel is criticized because they not only violated UN resolutions, but they also violated the Geneva Connections. The Geneva connections were passed to protect the original occupants in an occupied state. Israel's wrongs were then protected from punishment by the United States.
52) What is the role of the UN in the Middle East these days? Why isn't the UN in charge of the overall peace process?
The UN is held out of the loop in most issues of the Middle East. The United States keeps it this way. The US claims that under the Oslo peace agreement that they fathered between Israel and Palestine the UN's help is unnecessary except in economic and development issues. The US also claims that the UN does not need to help with the negotiations because the parties involved are already sorting things out under the Oslo Peace agreement. Whenever the UN tries to do something in the Middle East, the US opposes it and since the US has a great deal of power in the UN the issue usually remains in deadlock.