L’IMPUISSANCE TRAGIQUE DU SYSTÈME ONUSIEN – LA GUERRE À GAZA
THE TRAGIC IMPOTENCE OF THE UN SYSTEM - THE WAR IN GAZA

Summary/Abstract: To say that a system is powerless is to recognize that it is dysfunctional in a number of ways: institutional, legal, political, human, etc. And this is quite rightly the case with the United Nations (UN) system. Erected on the ruins of the League of Nations (1945), with a view to maintaining peace and security, supporting development, protecting rights and freedoms, and equipped with preventive as well as dissuasive means, it has to be said, however, that this system is being undermined, notably amid the war in Gaza. Blockaded and under siege since 2007, Gaza has been subjected to merciless acts of revenge at the hands of a morally bankrupt army. It is in this context that Nicolas Boeglin, stunned by the Israeli aggressions, declared: "We remain astonished that a small country can regularly and with impunity defy the international community and the rules of international law". What's worse is that this barbarity is perpetuated with the assistance and connivance of certain regimes that embrace the labels of democracy, the rule of law and human rights.

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