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Australian NGOs and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.(Foreign Affairs)

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| October 01, 2004 | Gouttman, Rodney | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IT IS A COMMON view that when Australian non-government organisations (NGOs) intervene in overseas areas of conflict, disaster, or great deprivation, their motives are purely humanitarian. Cases do exist, however, where humanitarian programs and projects are also driven by distinct, even overriding, political preference. One example is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Australian NGOs are ever ready to cloak themselves in the human rights language of a flawed United Nations. The UN not only uses NGOs to propagate its human rights rhetoric, but also to implement its message. According to the UN:

 
   A non-governmental organisation is any non-profit, 
   ...
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