The UN Human Rights Council, many of whose state members are world champions in violating the moral principles the Council is obligated to protect, issued its Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on the 2014 Gaza War today. The eighth such attempt since 2002 to single out Israel as guilty of war...
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The new United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) report on the Gaza war says: 27. International law does not require the continuous presence of troops of the occupying forces in all areas of a territory, in order for it to be considered as being occupied. In the Naletelic case, the ICTY...
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The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), an organization with an established record of anti-Israel bias, is poised next week to condemn the Jewish state for its conduct during last year’s Operation Protective Edge, noted an op-ed published Friday in The Boston Herald by Jeff Robbins, a former UNHRC delegate....
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Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization that rules the Gaza Strip, has rejected a move by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve the unity government it agreed to last year, Agence France-Presse reported today. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah presented Wednesday the resignation of the unity government to PA...
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Israel will permit hundreds of Palestinian families living in the West Bank and Gaza to access Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount for Friday prayers and to visit relatives in the Palestinian territories and abroad as part of a sweeping policy to ease travel restrictions ahead of the Muslim holy...
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Israel’s Foreign Ministry released its report on Operation Protective Edge on Sunday. According to the Times of Israel, the Foreign Ministry explained the country’s actions as responding to “an enemy that targets civilians and operates from among its own people.” The central argument, though, is coherent and persuasive and evidence of the...
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A multinational delegation of senior military and political leaders has submitted a report to the United Nations asserting that “Israel not only met a reasonable international standard of observance of the laws of armed conflict, but in many cases significantly exceeded that standard” during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge in...
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A rocket that was fired into Israel, setting off alerts in the country’s south, fell short and landed in Hamas-ruled Gaza, the Associated Press reported today. Sirens wailed in some areas warning of the attack late Thursday night and the military initially said it had hit the area of southern...
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Last month’s unsuccessful attempt by the Palestinian Authority to suspend Israel from FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, is part of a broader anti-Israel campaign being orchestrated by Qatar, according to a paper published Tuesday by Pinhas Inbari of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Inbari explained that Qatar supports Palestinian Football Association head...
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Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar said that armed resistance against Israel is not negotiable, according to a report published on the Saudi-backed website Alresalah on Monday. Armed resistance is not a political issue that may be negotiated, said al-Zahhar in a meeting organized by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in...
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