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Palestine – The Lessons of East Timor

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United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor in May 2002, from the United Nations Mission of Support to East Timor (UNMISET). The UN peacekeepers had just replaced a 22-nation regional military force led by Australia, INTERFET, the International Force East Timor. INTERFET was a non-UN military force that was rapidly assembled and inserted into East Timor in September 1999 to end the escalating bloodletting and destruction of Indonesia's occupation forces. (Photo: Courtesy of Geoffrey C. Gunn)
Given the history of the Israeli invasion of Palestine it is easy to believe that the 19 July ruling by the International Court of Justice, which rules that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should end, will be ignored. After all, in 1967, UN Security Council Resolution 242 called for the withdrawal of Israeli [...]

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