POLI 347 Lecture Notes - Ralph Bunche, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, Unrwa

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 347
• Professor: Julie Norman

Document Summary

News (long term proposals are in the news this week): Israel wants to create an offshore gas field off of gaza, which creates questions about who actually has rights to that space. The president of pa is making a speech this week that will likely push for non- member state status in the general assembly, but will likely wait until after the us election. Israeli defense minister (and former prime minister) proposed israel pull out of the. West bank if peace talks cannot be started. After 1948, palestinian identity takes a back seat and the era of israel-arab relations is the focus. Post 1948 was a non-war, non-peace period because the war of. Independence/1948 didn"t have a formal peace treaty that ended it. There was a series of general armistice agreements instead (not normal progression- which is ceasefire, an armistice, and then a peace treaty). The conflict/war never reached the peace treaty state.