Continuing his contentious approach towards Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened Tuesday that he would stop his security cooperation with Israel in the case that his proposed United Nations Security Council resolution against Israel is vetoed. The Jerusalem Post reports: Abbas said he would submit the plan, mandating an Israeli withdrawal...

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In an interview with Wall Street Journal editorial board member Mary Kissel (embedded below), UN Watch’s executive director, Hillel Neuer, revealed that human rights icon Aryeh Neier, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, opposed the appointment of William Schabas to investigate Israel’s conduct...

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With less than two months left before the deadline for a nuclear deal between the P5+1 and Iran, The Wall Street Journal is reporting (via Google) Tuesday that the Western nations are preparing to reward Iran for making a deal with expedited sanctions relief. Iran has been pushing for a...

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In an unsigned editorial today, the editors of The Washington Post note that since Hamas emerged as the “loser of the summer war,” its loss allows for “new possibilities for agreement between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” However, the editorial finds Abbas wanting: Mr. Abbas,...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday spoke at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, giving a speech that the Jerusalem Post described as “vintage Netanyahu,” and one that leaned heavily on what has become the consensus understanding of the Middle East as divided into three regional blocs....

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In a speech today before the United Nations General Assembly (embedded below), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified the greatest threat to the world as “militant Islam” and argued that the threat Israel faces from Hamas is the same that the rest of the region and the world faces from...

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The State Department on Friday harshly condemned a speech given earlier that day by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, during which Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly that Israel’s summer Operation Protective Edge against Hamas constituted a “genocidal crime,” that the Israelis had committed a “series of absolute war...

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On Sunday, Paul Alster reported via The Times of Israel that the United Nations will present the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) with the Equator Prize this week, despite UAWC’s ties to the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Alster briefly outlined the PFLP’s history of terror, which...

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The Irish soldiers stationed on the Golan Heights, meant to be the main security element of the United Nations force there, had to leave a key weapon behind in Ireland, leaving it much harder for them to defend their international colleagues from the threat of al-Qaeda. The story was reported...

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Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari said Tuesday that jihadists from the al-Nusra Front have taken possession of the vehicles, arms, and uniforms of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). Ynet reports: “The terrorists are now using United Nations cars, which hold the emblem of the United...

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