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- <title>
- Nov. 12, 1990: World Notes:United Nations
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 12, 1990 Ready For War
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 51
- World Notes
- UNITED NATIONS
- Protecting the Palestinians
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Israel's troubles with the U.N. keep growing. Last week
- Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar proposed a direct
- Security Council role in protecting Palestinians in the occupied
- territories. In a report ordered by the council after 20 Arabs
- were killed by Israeli forces on Jerusalem's Temple Mount last
- month, Perez de Cuellar suggested the 164 nations that signed
- the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention convene to discuss ways to
- prevent human-rights violations in the territories, including
- the designation of a "protecting power" for the Palestinians.
- </p>
- <p> That idea puts the U.S. in a difficult situation.
- Supporting the proposals could alienate Washington's longtime
- ally, but if the U.S. blocks council action, it risks upsetting
- the unity of the anti-Iraq coalition.
- </p>
- <p> No such ambivalence came from Israel, which rejected the
- proposals. The Israeli ambassador to the U.N. reiterated his
- country's contested view that the Geneva Convention rules of
- occupation do not legally apply to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- He added that Israel has "sole responsibility" for administering
- those areas and that "this responsibility is not subject to
- review or intervention by other authorities."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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