pakistan's former ambassador to the un, ali sarahli says public outcry is the only way to push a ceasefire in gaza, as the uni has proven to be. effective in that regard, the basic problem is that the united nations can be effective and functional, only if all its members desire to do so, then in the security council there is the discriminatory process of those members who are permanent and they can vito any resolution, so effectively they make the security council totally, mean i impractical and ineffective to work with, you know in the... vietnam war, the reason the us administration was forced to sue for peace and to hold peace talks in paris in the 60s and early 70s of the last century was because of public protest, because of the fact that people came out on the streets, students in the universities came out in protest and demonstration against the policies of the government, so there was such a massive change in public opinion that the government had to also alter its foreign policy. now here the situation is very worrisome and very bad, but unfortunately the israeli and the jewish l