Iran sought to block a condemnation of Syria for using chemical weapons at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Colum Lynch of Foreign Policy reported Wednesday. According to Lynch: Iran tried to block a move by the United States and Russia to present a mildly worded statement to...

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A bipartisan group of members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote a letter Tuesday to Secretary of State John Kerry urging the State Department to revoke economic assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in response to the PA’s decision to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). The PA signed the ICC’s founding treaty,...

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An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday night condemned the death earlier that day of a Spanish peacekeeper in the Golan Heights, but failed to address the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah’s rocket attack on an IDF convoy, killing two Israeli soldiers and wounding seven more. Before the meeting, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations...

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Internal Palestinian opposition is emerging to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ continued efforts to achieve statehood through acceptance in United Nations bodies. Agence France-Presse reported: “Hamas is totally opposed to any return to the UN Security Council by the Palestinian Authority,” spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement. “Such a step...

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After failing to get the requisite votes to impose a peace agreement on Israel in the United Nations Security Council, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas signed onto twenty international treaties, including the Rome Statute, VOA News reported today. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed on to 20 international agreements on...

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A Palestinian resolution calling to impose a peace settlement on Israel failed in a United Nations Security Council vote tonight, garnering only eight votes, one short of the number required to have forced a promised veto from the United States. The New York Times reports: The United States and Australia...

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The United States on Monday signaled that it would oppose unilateral Palestinian efforts at the United Nations, with State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke telling reporters that a new draft Palestinian proposal “fails to account for Israel’s legitimate security needs, and the satisfaction of those needs, of course, integral to a sustainable settlement.”...

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By going to the United Nations Security Council with a resolution this week to force terms of peace deal on Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is “insisting on failure” an unsigned editorial in The Washington Post observed today. The editorial observed that Abbas, having refused to accept an American sponsored...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ latest threat to submit a resolution to the United Nations Security Council imposing a peace deal on Israel has reportedly been rebuffed by Secretary of State John Kerry, according to a report today in The Times of Israel. Abbas called Kerry Sunday night to inform...

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R- S.C.) promised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Saturday night that Congress would react strongly to any United Nations Security Council (UNSC) efforts to impose a peace settlement on Israel. Graham also referred to statements made by President Barack Obama saying that he agreed with the sentiment that “the...

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