The UN Resolution 24-42: A Brave New World

When Europeans invaded Central America using God, Glory, and Gold as their purpose, in the end the Europeans were just money hungry wanting goods not found in Europe? Religion is meant to serve a spiritual purpose and give people a sense of faith not to be used as means of an excuse when things get rough. Religion should be respected, yes, but at the same time it should not be overplayed in such situations. Europe wanted to make it up to the Jews for their suffering during the Holocaust, which is understandable, but why not give them land that isn’t as heavily populated as Palestine was. Australia could have served the Jews well as Australia was not heavily populated and to this day it doesn’t have as many people as it could hold. To make matters worse between the Arabs and Jews the UN Resolution …show more content…
The UN Resolution 242 states “withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict” (Tal, “Arab-Israeli”). When this statement is translated into other official UN languages “the” precedes “territories”. Only the English translation lacks the term “the” in front of “territories”. Since the Israeli’s used the English translation they were not forced to give up the occupied territories instead only some. Palestine and their allies such as Egypt, Jordan, and Syria were let down with the result of what Israel did return. Israel made sure to keep parts of the border that were near water and neighboring countries leaving the Palestinians with view resources. There was also a second part to this resolution that stated something along the lines of “land of peace”. This part of the resolution was