Middle East instability has endangered the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, where sectarian violence and threats from Hezbollah have created a situation in which contributors are withdrawing their troops. The deepening regional chaos has similarly undermined the U.N. force patrolling the Israeli-Syrian border (UNDOF), where multiple have attacks...

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As the West gears up for near-certain strikes against Syrian military infrastructure, analysts are moving to unpack what might have motivated the Bashar al-Assad regime to unleash what appears to be the most devastating chemical attack since Saddam Hussein unleashed similar weapons against restive Kurds in Halabja in 1988. On...

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The United Nations Security Council convened yesterday and called for “clarity” regarding the latest alleged chemical attack by the Bashar al-Assad regime. While some details of yesterday’s chemical attack near Damascus remain murky – different groups have so far have offered different estimates of the casualties – the evidence was...

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Switzerland has nominated to the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) a candidate who is a vocal defender of Hezbollah, of Holocaust deniers, and of the Gaddafi regime. Tweeting about Jean Ziegler’s nomination, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power did not mince words: .@UNWatch: Indeed. Dr. Ziegler is unfit for...

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Senior Hezbollah member Nabil Qaouk bragged today that the Iran-backed terror group is capable of saturation bombing Israeli population centers, bragging that Israeli cities were being targeted with tens of thousands of missiles. Last week a car bomb ripped through the Dahiyeh district in southern Beirut. The area is a...

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The United States has dispatched a series of its most senior military officers to Israel, where they have been meeting with counterparts and discussing a range of regional issues. High on all of the agendas is Iran. Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffis, is due to...

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Observers are calling on the United Nations to mobilize sanctions against Hezbollah, after a European Union decision earlier this month saw the bloc blacklist the Iran-backed terror group. The move was broadly criticized for creating an untenable distinction between the group’s military wing and its so-called political wing. The Wall Street...

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Samantha Power, the Obama administration’s nominee to be the U.S.’s next ambassador to the United Nations, was asked during her Senate hearings to describe the U.N.’s stance regarding the Syrian conflict. She was not kind: Samantha Power, the Obama administration’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told a Senate...

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Tuesday saw a variety of potentially escalatory fire from across the Syrian border into Israel. Unidentified gunmen firing on Israeli troops who were investigating an infiltration into Israeli territory by Syrian suspects. Dozens of blasts being linked to mortars fired across the border. The situation is not, in other words, stable. The...

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The U.N. today held an Israeli-led “thematic debate” – basically a conference – revolving around how to promote global entrepreneurship. The event stemmed from a resolution passed last December by the U.N. General Assembly. The resolution among other things created a system for creating and nurturing entrepreneurial resources, and sought...

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