/region/middle_east_north_africa/the-gaza-crisis-timing-a-war-00357/ Fact-based, well-reasoned perspectives from around the world Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:58:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /region/middle_east_north_africa/the-gaza-crisis-timing-a-war-00357/#comment-24832 Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:26:40 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=43765#comment-24832 What is strange (and then maybe not) is the near-invisibility of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in this Gaza episode, despite the fact that it was created at the time to, amongst others, organize a unified response of Islamic countries on the Palestinian issue. So if the OIC wants to gain credibility, this Gaza crisis is a huge opportunity to put an old idea in practice: OIC peacekeepers. Through the informal diplomatic channels that exist between Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel, it could be proposed to make Gaza an OIC protectorate under a peacekepping force that does not consist of Arab personnel for obvious reasons, but of soldiers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia. Nothing is to be expected any longer from the PLO regime in Ramallah and Oslo seems failed, so Gaza could as well go a separate way.

]]> /region/middle_east_north_africa/the-gaza-crisis-timing-a-war-00357/#comment-24682 Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:51:42 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=43765#comment-24682 Quoting “apart from the victims on both sides, who must bear the brunt of ceaseless violence”
What both sides you are talking about here ? Are you Palestinian ?

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