Netherlands

Gustavo Romero S.P.D. Palestinian Refugess in the Middle East Netherlands

Palestinian refugess in the Middle East is one of many concerns the U.N. hopefully will solve. To understand the beginings of Palestinian refugees, a person has to understand the Palestine is not a whole county; the region is called Palestine and consist of Israel, Jordan, Eygpt, Syria, and Lebanon. After the World War I, the United Kingdom and France designed the border lines of the British Mandate of Palestine and French Mandate of Syria (both countries were assigned to combine both culture, Jewish and Muslim, together). Almost three decades later, Muslim countries united and declard war against Isreal (the war is known to be "The War of 1948-1949). The war lasted for weeks, until both sides agreed on truce. The United Nations sent over military observers, known as United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, incase of anymore bloodshed. Soon after the war, the Israel gained controll of 80 percent of the former British Mandate, Jordan gained parts of the West Bank, and Eygpt acquired the Sinai and Gaza strip. While nations were gaining land, there was a total of 914,000 people homeless after the war. Today, there is a total of 4.6 million refugees living in: the Gaza strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, and in the Syrian Arab Republic. Since the War of 1948-1949, the United Nations has constantly been trying to not only help the refugees, but also stop wars from preventing so the people in the Middle East would live in peace and harmony. Shortly after the War of 1948-1949, the United Nations has created what today is the largest operation in the Middle East, UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Work Agency For Palestin Refugees in the Near East). The program is devoted to creating shelters, schools, and medical buildings for the depressed refugees. Not only is the United Nations worried about the Palestinian refugees, the UN is also worried about the treatments of the refugees. The Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestine People and the United Nations Division for Palestinian Rights were both documented to the protect the rights of the refugees. The reason why most of the refugees are refugees is because they are sickened of the war, and the UN knows this. In respond, in the mid- 1960's, the UN created the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which states a mandatory peace between Israel and the Arabian countries. The bill was later violated. We, the Netherlands, believe that there should be a large amount of countries willing to donate some amount of money to help the Palestine refugees. On January 30, 2008, we donated $3.5 million Euros for the security of the refugees. The Netherlands believes to help the refugees, we, as united nations, must first unite the Middle East. The Netherlands proposes that the United Nations create a program called Save the Middle East Before Final Countdown of Destruction. The program will focus primarily to on the Middle East and links of countries who are invovled with destructive countries in the Middle East. We believe that their should be more attention for the Palestine refugees; there should be more proposals to unite the Middle East. We believe that the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 should be re-strengthened. The purpose of re-strengthening 242 is to stop anymore countries in the Middle East to going to war with each other. Not only will 242 focus on that, it will also look for countries who are highly is suspicion of donating weapons to any Middle Eastern. In the new year of 2009, we will announce of our proposal to strengthen 242 to the General Assembly and hope of a positive response. If nations do response with a positive atitude, we will ask for them to donate more money than they usually to UNRWA to let them understand that this revival of 242 is not to verbally persecute any nations in the Middle East, but rather to reheal nations so the refugees won't live in a state of endanment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_refugees http://www.un.org/unrwa/english.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel,_Palestine_and_the_United_Nations http://palestinefacts.org/pf_1948to1967_un_242.php http://www.un.org/unrwa/news/releases/pr-2008/Netherlands_jan08.html
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