Will a palestinian State be Imposed Upon Israel

Some of Israel’s worst enemies come from within. Gershon Baskin makes a proposal that the UN should impose a settlement on Israel by recognizing a palestinian state whether there is an agreement between Israel and the palestinian Arabs or not. This could theoretically lead to the UN using military force against Israel in order to enforce this declaration. While the UN would never agree to military action to stop Iran’s nuclear program, I could certainly see it using military force to impose a palestinian terror state and destroy Israel.

Will the UN recognize Palestine as a state without Israel’s agreement

Comment by Ted Belman
The UN could do what Baskin suggests. But is it legal? Who cares? When it comes to the UN’s treatment of Israel, there is no rule of law. If a UN mandated force tries to enter Israeli air space, I don’t see Israel shooting them down or facing them down. Thus we would have 500,000 Israelis living in Palestine. Of course the Arabs would expel them as they did in the fifties and keep their properties. This would lead to war, the international force notwithstanding.

According to its Charter, the purpose of the UN is
1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;

The UN could decide that the continuing occupation is “a threat to peace” and an “act of aggression”, thereby justifying their “collective measures”. By recognizing the State of Palestine it would be elevating the current dispute to “an international dispute” justifying their “adjustment or settlement of the dispute”.

By Rhonda Spivak, Special to Israel Resource Review

Gershon Baskin, Co-CEO of the Israel-Palestine Centre For Research and Information [IPCRI]said that that he was the one who “put forth” the idea to European Union Foreign Policy chief Javier Solana of having the United Nations Security Council recognize a Palestinian state, even if an agreement is not reached between Israel and the Palestinians.

Baskin told an IPCRI conference entitled “Education for Peace” on August 8 in Beit Jalla, at Talitha Kumi near Bethlehem that “He [Solana] heard it first from me, but it’s fine, let Solana get the credit.”

Baskin said under the proposed plan the United States would not use its veto power to prevent the U.N. Security Council from recognizing the existence of the State of Palestine within provisional borders.

Baskin told the conference that about two weeks ago he met for “secret talks in the U.S.” with five Palestinians, five Americans and five Israelis.

“[PA President] can submit a request [to the U.N. Security Council]that the State of Palestine become a member state of the U.N., and if the U.S. does not veto this, all of the Security Council members will vote in favour,” said Baskin, noting that currently the Palestinians only have observer status at the U.N.

After passing the Security Council, the State of Palestine would be recognized by the U.N. general Assembly and “from that moment, the State of Israel is now occupying the entire member state of Palestine,” he said. He added that once that happened the U.N. could create a mechanism to send in international forces to implement the two state solution, with Jerusalem as a capital for both states.

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