Sadly, the UN Security Council has always played a one-sided game that favours Israel over the Palestinian people. From its creation after WW II to the present, Israel has enjoyed the favour of most superpowers. Things in Israel will never improve as long as external powers intercede to defend Israel every time Israel does something that contravenes UN resolutions and tries to extend its official territorial boundaries.

If Israel is to be recognized as a Jewish state, then other religious states would deserve the same priviledge. Mullahs in Iraq and Afghanistan want those countries to be recognized as Islamic states. The Taliban (however despicable its social policies might be) would have a point in saying that its existence as a state structure is justified on religious grounds.

Thus western powers play an inconsistent game that favous Israel. They pretend to deplore the conditions under which Palestinians live, but at the same time they give Israel billions of dollars in economic and military aid. They carry out trade and commerce with Israel, but do little to help the Palestinian economy. It comes as no surprise then that Israel has the resources to build one of the largest armies in the World, equipped with war planes, tanks, battle ships and even nuclear weapons; while Palestinians have to fight back with rocks and home-made bombs.

It is a one-sided game with the UN pretending to care but doing nothing to change anything. The Security council is blind and refuses to pass any resolutions or trade embargoes that would force both Israel and Palestine to make a lasting peace and recognize each other's right to exist.

If western powers wanted peace in the Middle East, they would start by using economic weapons in the same way that they have used them with Iran and North Korea. They would halt all military aid and declare a trade embargo in armaments and military technologies. They would impose banking restrictions and they would stop trading in anything that could be used as a weapon or to give either side an advantage in a war. As it is, that situation already exists with the Palestinians, but not with the Israelis. Any move to curtail trade and impose embargoes would affect mostly Israel because Palestinians are already at a huge disadvantage. The only way to move forward is to end the one-sided game, and nobody wants that. Not our western powers and least of all Israel.