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    Founded directly after Israel’s establishment, UNRWA was established to temporarily assist Palestinian refugees displaced by the war. Decades later, it continues to provide services to almost six million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. Beyond UNRWA, the UN has maintained peacekeeping missions in the Middle East for decades, including UNIFIL in Lebanon. However, some wonder whether they don’t do enough to either directly help Palestinians or improve the humanitarian situation. Those who believe the UN’s efforts hurt argue their forces are ineffective in stopping violent actors such as Hamas and Hezbollah and fail to maintain strict neutrality. Those who believe the UN’s efforts help argue that without peacekeeping forces, refugee populations in the region would face more severe humanitarian crises. Also, despite their limitations, they act as buffers between warring factions, preventing wider regional escalations. With this context, we debate the question: UN Efforts in the Middle East: Helping or Hurting?
    
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Andreas Kluth

Writer for The Economist

Andreas Kluth has been writing for the Economist since 1997 and currently covers California and the western states from Los Angeles. In previous assignments, he covered technology, Asian business, and global finance.

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California Is The First Failed State

With Gray Davis, Van Jones, Andreas Kluth, Lawrence O'Donnell, Bobby Shriver, Sharon Waxman

January 19, 2010

California tried. And then it failed. Uniquely charged by its constitution to guarantee the “happiness” of its residents – the state empowered its people to demand by referendum whatever they wanted to spend money on – from better schools to bigger prisons and to refuse by referendum to pay the bills. A legislature paralyzed by the absence of a workable middle – and a requirement for a 2/3 vote to impose taxes – combined finally to dig the state into…

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California Is The First Failed State

California tried. And then it failed. Uniquely charged by its constitution to guarantee the “happiness” of its residents – the state empowered its people to demand by referendum whatever they wanted to spend money on…

With Gray Davis, Van Jones, Andreas Kluth, Lawrence O'Donnell, Bobby Shriver, Sharon Waxman

January 19, 2010

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