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Baseless Comparisons: UN Security Council Resolutions on Iraq and Israel - Dore Gold (816 words) |
 | Resolutions adopted under Chapter VI of the UN Charter - that deals with "Pacific Resolution of Disputes" - are implemented through a process of negotiation, conciliation, or arbitration between the parties to a dispute. |
| UN Security Council Resolution 242 from November 1967 is a Chapter VI resolution which, when taken together with Resolution 338, leads to an Israeli withdrawal from territories (not all the territories) that Israel entered in the 1967 Six-Day War, by means of a negotiated settlement between Israel and its Arab neighbors. |
| UN Security Council Resolution 661 provided that no state was to trade in Iraqi oil; subsequently, the UN created, for humanitarian reasons, the oil-for-food program, which permitted Iraqi oil sales as long as the UN could strictly control the expenditure of any resulting oil revenues for food and medicine. |
| Think-Israel (6072 words) |
| The UN goal is to minimize the role of negotiations, intervene on behalf of the Palestinian victim on the grounds that the root cause of the dispute is the Israeli occupation, and to impose pre-determined right answers on the Israeli culprit. |
| UN officials say the Quartet was an initiative of Secretary-General Kofi Annan who brought the group together in the fall of 2001 with the expressed interest of becoming directly involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict. |
| Israel could insist that full and equal Israeli participation in all UN bodies within every Western democratic regional group or sub-group be a sine qua non of UN or European Union participation in monitoring the roadmap. |
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