ABSTRACT
Since the birth of the United Nations (UN), one of the key issues that the Organization has grappled with is that of the Palestinian Question. The Question has produced UN activity that could be defined as the sum of all the deliberative (resolutions) and operative (mediation and peace missions) acts, intended to control and resolve the conflict. Data collected from the inception of the Palestinian dispute to the present time reveals changes in this UN activity over the past sixty years. Those changes can be observed in terms of the amount of attention devoted to the Arab–Israeli conflict, in terms of the number of resources that the UN dedicated to it, and in terms of the characteristics and “force” of their interventions. Knowing the causes of those changes helps in understanding the dynamics of the UN involvement, at different levels, in the resolution of the conflict. In synthesis, the aim of this book is to answer the question: what are the causes of the variation in the UN’s activity in addressing Arab–Israeli conflict?
