Palestinian question of its fundamental facts and fending it off with a humanitarian alibi. At the Security Council level, in particular, circumstantial accommodation has prevailed over global concepts, and in the course of these meetings the Council has clelibcrately dealt with the qllestion in a piecemeal fashion. This approach was doomed inevitably to lead to an impasse and, in the last analysis, to corlsolidatc a do? f?zfizcto situation flowing from the repetition of Israeli aggression which attained its higb point in 1967. The concatenation of events since that time has daily placed us before the painful demonstration of the 6 flight of the international community before its responsibilities. 56. At the outset, the in,ternational context, which was still subject to the constraints of the post-war period, was certainly favourable for the shameless exploitation of the feeling of guilt, which resulted in the substitution of one injustice by another injustice and in the designation of Palestine as the dumping ground for the many and reprehensible crimes of the West. This injustice towards the Palestine people, consecrated by the United Nations despite the fundamental principles of its own Charter, could never be considered an irreversible fact, particularly since the courts of that time, by their dimensions, their orientation and their immediate concerns, were in no way empowered to decide on the creation of an artificial State, which could be nothing other than the anti-homeland of the Palestine nation. 57, This problem devolved from this fundamental contradiction, which was already included in the Balfottr Declaration. It is a problem which remains without solution and one which affects the national existence of an entire people and places the whole of the Middle East in a state of continuing and dangerous tension. Why Palestine? The choice was certainly not fortuitous. The close conjunction 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a political and historical analysis of the Palestinian question, discussing the international community's responses and actions (or lack thereof) towards the situation. It highlights the injustices and conflicts that have arisen, and criticizes the international community's handling of the issue. The text does not mention specific economic, environmental, or technological aspects, but rather focuses on the political and humanitarian aspects of the situation.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, International relations, Culture