COMMENT | Say what, send the troops in?

COMMENT | There appears to be some public interest in assisting the humanitarian situation in Gaza by “sending in our forces”, such that the Prime Minister had cause to address it in Parliament.

The United Nations is an inter-government organisation. It has a UN Charter dated 1945 which is an international treaty which includes a prohibition of the use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations. Malaysia (then the Federation of Malaya) joined the UN in 1957 as its 82nd member.

The prohibition of member states of the UN from attacking other UN member states is central to the purpose for which the UN was founded after World War II.

However...