U.N.’s Golan Heights Mission Survives

Haaretz reports here on the gymnastics that have been required to keep the U.N.’s peacekeeping mission on the Golan Heights intact after several participating states withdrew their forces. The salvage operation has featured new contributions from Ireland and Fiji and a commitment by several other countries to keep their troops on the ground. Israel’s Foreign ...

By , a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

Haaretz reports here on the gymnastics that have been required to keep the U.N.'s peacekeeping mission on the Golan Heights intact after several participating states withdrew their forces. The salvage operation has featured new contributions from Ireland and Fiji and a commitment by several other countries to keep their troops on the ground. Israel's Foreign Ministry sounds relieved:

Haaretz reports here on the gymnastics that have been required to keep the U.N.’s peacekeeping mission on the Golan Heights intact after several participating states withdrew their forces. The salvage operation has featured new contributions from Ireland and Fiji and a commitment by several other countries to keep their troops on the ground. Israel’s Foreign Ministry sounds relieved:

A high-ranking Foreign Ministry official said Israel was pleased that a solution was found to the crisis caused by the departure of the Austrian troops. “The force is more important than ever, and there is no doubt that these countries are doing a good and important service for the peacekeeping force on the Golan Heights and throughout the world as well,” he said. 

David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist

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