Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to address the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem while speaking before the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday. Netanyahu, who noted that the UN’s entrenched bias against Israel made it a poor venue for Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking efforts, instead invited...

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The United States believes that Russian warplanes were responsible for the bombing of an aid convoy in Syria shortly after a ceasefire came to an end, government sources told CNN Wednesday. “All the evidence we have points to that conclusion,” one of the officials said. “All of our information indicates...

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Eighty-eight Democratic and Republican senators signed a letter on Monday urging President Barack Obama to veto any one-sided, anti-Israel resolutions offered by the United Nations Security Council, which would make it more difficult for Israelis and Palestinians to reach a two-state solution. The letter, led by Sens. Mike Rounds (R – S.D.) and Kirsten...

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Seventy-three Syrian aid groups have suspended their cooperation with the United Nations because of what they characterized as the world body’s “complacency” to the Syrian government’s “deliberate manipulation” of aid, The New York Times reported Thursday. The organizations announced their decision in a letter to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the...

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The United Nations’ top investigator into Iran’s human rights record blasted Tehran’s recent “illegal” execution of twelve people in a statement released on Monday. Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed condemned the August 27 killing of Alireza Madadpour and eleven others on drug-related charges. Shaheed had asked Iranian authorities not to proceed with the executions the day...

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The United Nations and its associated agencies purchased $91.8 million worth of goods and services from Israel in 2015, twice as much as they spent on Israeli products just two years earlier, The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday. The UN spent just $45 million on Israeli products in 2013, a figure that increased to $69.8...

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A Palestinian engineer employed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has been charged with using his position to help the terrorist group Hamas, Israeli officials announced Tuesday. Waheed Borsh, a resident of Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip, was arrested on July 16 by the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security...

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The allegations that the Gaza director of the charity World Vision siphoned tens of millions of dollars to the terrorist group Hamas represents a “profound betrayal of trust,” one of the United Nations’ top officials dealing with Palestinian affairs said in a statement Monday. The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced on...

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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said that Jerusalem’s recent diplomatic gains with African nations may get another boost in September at the UN General Assembly, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with a number of African leaders, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday....

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The mayor of the largest Druze village located on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights dismissed a recent United Nations report criticizing Israel’s control over the territory as “a total joke,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Friday. Dulan abu-Saleh, the mayor of Majdal Shams, objected to a report issued by the UN Economic and...

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