The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Iran’s economy is making an impressive recovery from the sanctions relief granted as part of the interim deal with the P5+1 nations last November. It begins by noting that the president of Iran’s chamber of commerce, Gholam Hossein Shafei, “greets trade missions from...

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The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iranian negotiators have continued to deny the West access to Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, even as the P5+1 global powers are trying to hammer out an agreement that would force Iran to put its atomic program beyond use for weaponization: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is considered by...

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Following a series of speeches from countries across the globe condemning Israel, Rachel Fraenkel, the mother of abducted Israeli-American teenager Naftali, called on the world to help bring about the release of her son and two other Israeli students missing since June 12. Fraenkel spoke for two minutes during a...

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On Wednesday, an Israeli diplomat was appointed to serve on a United Nations committee focusing on “decolonization, Palestinian refugees and human rights, peacekeeping, mine action, outer space, public information, atomic radiation and University for Peace.” The Times of Israel reported: Israel overcame a coordinated effort by Arab states on Wednesday to thwart...

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Ha’aretz reported Tuesday that the government of Norway has cancelled a conference of donor countries to the Palestinian Authority, which was scheduled for next week. Norway agreed to postpone the conference, which was to focus on economic development for the PA, after the kidnappings of three Israeli teenagers by the terrorist...

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On Wednesdsay, the United Nations General Assembly selected Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa, a vocal anti-gay activist, as the international body’s president for the 2014-2015 session, set to begin in September. Bloomberg News reports: The former lawyer and politician defended Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s February enacting legislation that toughened punishments for gay sex...

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American and European officials on Wednesday deepened their criticism of what is increasingly being seen as deliberate Iranian foot-dragging on Tehran’s obligations to come clean regarding the so-called possible military dimensions (PMDs) of Iran’s atomic program, a reference to a range of activities from the military’s involvement in producing nuclear material to...

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In the May 2014 issue of  The Tower Magazine, Ben Cohen examined The Deep UN: Inside the Secret Infrastructure of Hate. While, as Cohen previously noted, the United Nations pursues some worthy goals, it nonetheless possesses “a network of extremely well-funded UN structures and offices” that “continue operating as the engine of the...

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A gathering of lawyers and jurists at United Nations headquarters today is asking whether the U.N. body tasked with dealing with Palestinian refugees – UNRWA – is providing humanitarian relief or “prolonging the Palestinian refugee problem.” The issue is also addressed in this month’s edition of The Tower Magazine in an...

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Last week on “Nakba Day,” the Palestinian commemoration of the disaster that was the founding of Israel, a group of children addressed a press conference at the Palestinian Ministry of Culture in Gaza. The children at the press conference “handed a letter in English and Arabic to the UN representative in Gaza”...

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