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Okay let me see if I can summarize some of Israel's objections to peace keeping forces...

- It infringes on the rights of a soveriegn nation, and rewards the PLO and the UN for their efforts. It force Israel to transfer control.

- Peace keeping forces are only used to stabilize formerly warring nations, so a peacekeeping force would constitute a de facto international recognition of the PA as a Sovereign state. This would happen without recognizing Israels right to exist, or renouncing violence to end the conflict.

- Israel views this akin to the UN dispatching peace keeping forces during the civil rights disturbances of the 60's in the US.

- 230 Marines were killed in Beirut, another few dozen were killed when Israel hit the USS Liberty during the Six Day War, while "scouting" an area it wasn't supposed to be in. They've tried putting US troops in various parts of Israel and the neighboring region, and the results are always a disaster. When people suggest this it really just shows they skimmed when reading up on the history.

- the MFO (Multinational of Observers) in Egypt, and the UNTSO (forget what that stands for) in the Golan Heights have been seen as positive peace keeping forces...but it hasn't stopped daily missile bombings from the Golan, or weapons smuggling from Egypt.

- UN agreed to put peace keepers in Egypt when Israel withdrew from the Sinai but when Nasser asked the UN to get rid of them in 1967, they complied. This implicated the UN in assisting Egypt in what led to the Six Day War, forcing Israel to take over the Sinai penninsula. When Israel left the Sinai again in 1979, it refused any use of the UN peace keepers, and now the US leads that multinational force. The UN have also assisted in covering the identities and refusing to disclose evidence of a kidnapping up in the Golan Heights, where soldiers, journalists, and innocent bystanders from several nations were kidnapped by Hizzbalah.


- Every International body that's gone over to stop or monitor the violence has ended up adding to it. These groups are often caught protecting terrorists, and smuggling guns. The areas where they're stationed in are almost always Palestinian territories, where to survive, they're pressured into assisting the intifada.


- The term "peace" is up for interpretation. There are dozens of International Solidarity Movement members in Arafat's compound acting as human shields who would swear they're trying to keep the peace. But they'd rather strangle Israel's leader then protect him. So their version of peace is very one sided. A lot of people think that as long as Palestinians are poverty stricken, violence against Jews isn't violence, or that it's "justified violence". The International community you want to act as peace keepers are the same ones who buy new text books for Palestinian schools, and then allow the use of texts that teach children genocide as vindication.

- Israel dislikes anything that smacks of a moral equivalency. A suicide bomber from Islamic Jihad hits Jews having their Kol Nidre dinner before their holiest day of the year, and the UN doesn't say a peep. Israel retaliates by bombing the caves where terrorists train, resulting in zero deaths, and the UN condemns them. Also - the whole analogy of the middle east as two kids fighting in a playground is offensive and derogatory to both sides. It's an attempt to white wash the situation. If peace keepers approached the conflict from this point of view, it would be tragic.

- Finally, there is no cease fire for peace keepers to uphold.