The thing is, neither the U.N. nor anyone else could do anything against Israel because it is too well supported. No U.S. President will dare to abandon Israel because he/she will know what consequences it will have on his support etc. The U.N. already deecribed Protective Edge as genocide. Funnily, in Israel people are calling the U.N. an anti-Semitic organization. Which is the main argument and last argument every supporter of the government uses. So what can we do? Boycott? Vote for the right leaders? Even Obama, the bit hope of the Palestinians was a failure...
I genuinely feel like the tide is turning, that people are less and less afraid of being labeled anti-semitic for saying that what Israel is doing is wrong. My father, a staunch conservative, says that it goes against God's wishes to criticise what Israel is doing. Now, he's on the verge of retirement, and I think that this attitude jives with what other Christians his age believe, but those of us who are younger don't necessarily hold to that party line any longer. I don't know what to do either, and I'm frustrated about it. So I teach my students about the conflict, and equate what Israel is doing now with what Germany did during WWII. We look at Pappe's book and compare that with a section of Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction. I then let the students draw their own conclusions, and they often come to the same conclusion that I have. There's hope. WIthin Israel and Palestine, I don't know, but certainly in the rest of the world the shadow of the Holocaust isn't so long that it's able to obscure what's happening in Palestine for much longer.