International Government

The Israel / Palestine conflict was born out of the violence and antisemitism Jewish people were facing in Europe. The Balfour Declaration first stated that the Jewish people deserved a place free of persecution and a connection to their historic land. The idea was then reaffirmed by the League of Nations. The League of Nations worked to ensure a sort of international government that could help recover from The Great War. By the time World War II began, the League of Nations had been abandoned and failed at its mission of peace. In its place, the United Nations was born. Although the United Nations is still a major part of global politics today, it does not have the ability to enforce international government in the way it was envisioned. The League of Nations and the United Nations both fall short in the plan to enact a kind of government that can ensure peace. We can see this clearly in the Israel / Palestine conflict. The decision to try and reunite the Jewish people with the land their ancestors were from came about under international government. The idea of international government was quickly abandoned after Israel's creation. There were no longer institutions in place to keep such a new state together. After the British mandate was lifted, the failure of international government was paid. Its failure lies in requiring countries and their citizens to give up some of their power in favor of an international government. It was basically unthinkable for most countries to give up the needs of their own citizens to help citizens of other countries. The United Nations knows this well, yet still proposes a two-state solution. The issue lies in knowing that there is disputed land and thus two different citizens in one state, each unlikely to give anything up for the other one. The importance of citizenship is proven in the failures to ensure an international government with any power. A country always puts its citizens first. This is why Out of the Ash provides a solution much better than that of the UN. The power of citizenship can be a uniting or dividing force, depending on how it's used. A two-state solution would only continue to pit two groups of people together instead of hunting them in citizenship. 

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