ABSTRACT
After three years of failed UN mediation attempts, with little coercion or initiative from the Western powers, the Arab-Israeli deadlock of the early 1950s began showing increasing signs that it could not remain a low-grade, manageable conflict indefinitely. United Nations peacekeeping via the UNTSO and the MACs was being strained to the limit, and the risk of localized border incidents flaring up into a more serious outbreak of hostilities increased sharply from 1952 to 1954. 1
