United Nations (UN) is eyeing India as a mediator to resolve the conflict between the two Middle East nations, Israel and Palestine.
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A delegation of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) had come to New Delhi on a two-day visit on 2nd March. The UN wants to enhance the political and diplomatic support of India for a peaceful solution in the prevailing conflict between the two nations. CEIRPP was founded in 1975 by the United Nations General Assembly to formulate a program to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination, to national independence and sovereignty, and the right of Palestine refugees to return.
What They Expect from India? The delegation consisted of UN Ambassadors and Representatives of Senegal (Committee Chair); Indonesia and Malaysia (Committee Members); and the State of Palestine (Committee Observer). The visit focussed to gain increased coordination between the UN committee bureau and India on capacity building projects for Palestine, including within the context of South-South and Triangular Cooperation. The official statement by the delegation says, ” it intends to engage India, a country with good relations to both the State of Palestine and Israel, in looking for ways how it could play a more proactive role in the settling of the question of Palestine”. The UN delegation met Minister for External Affairs S Jaishankar, senior officials in the Ministry and political leaders.
Now UN wants India to mediate between Israel and Palestine, that is, dilute our friendship with Israel. Emaciating India means former British PM, Chamberlain must take over and declare Hitler has yielded for a piece of Czechoslavia — Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 2, 2020
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History of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict – The conflict began with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Israelis and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full-scale hostilities in the 1947–48 civil war. During the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, with the Balfour Declaration in 1917, the British government endorsed a Zionist proposal to open up Palestine to Jewish immigration in order to establish a national home for Jews there, where they constituted less than 8% of the population. By 1947, over two-thirds of the population consisted of Palestinians while Jews owned less than 7% of the land. In that year, Arab countries rejected the United Nations Partition Plan, which allotted the majority of the land to the Jewish 30% of the population, and in the ensuing war, Israel conquered half of the portion assigned in the plan to Arabs, assuming control over 78% of historic Palestine, with 80% of the Palestinians who had fled no longer permitted to return to their homes in Israel. In 1967, the remaining 22% was conquered in a Six-Day War and Israel began colonizing the new land with settlements in violation of international law. In the Oslo Accords of 1993, the Palestinians gained a restricted autonomy in a scattered mosaic of small areas in the West Bank. From then onwards till 2014 the direct talks between the two nations have been collapsing due to acrimony. In late 2017, the US jumped to mediate and firstly recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel; leading to Palestine cutting-off ties with the US. More Info
South-South cooperation refers to the exchange of expertise between actors (governments, organizations and individuals) in developing countries. Through this model of cooperation, developing countries help each other with knowledge, technical assistance, and/or investments. More Info
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