Israeli diplomats are suggesting that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, having secured non-member U.N. statehood status for the Palestinians, is committed to leveraging that status to “incite a confrontation with Israel no matter what.” The Palestinian Authority announced Thursday that, should Israeli voters choose the Likud Party to lead the next...

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The UK Huffington Post is criticizing Europe and America for “dangerous complacency” regarding the risk that Syria’s arsenal of chemical and biological weapons will fall into the hands of terrorists. The Syrian conflict is a three-way proxy war between Sunni-backed rebels, the Iran-backed regime in Damascus, and Kurdish groups. The...

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United Nations peacekeeping forces on the Israel-Syria border are at risk of collapsing, the French ambassador to the UN warned earlier this week. The spiraling anarchy in western Syria is punctuated by routine clashes between forces loyal to the regime of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and rebels seeking its overthrow....

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Washington, December 15 — Iranian and Western officials are striking pessimistic notes regarding the prospects for a breakthrough in broad talks aimed at decreasing opacity around Iran’s atomic program. Meanwhile Tehran may be dragging out more limited negotiations over granting United Nations inspectors access to a key military facility where...

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has reiterated the Palestinian Authority’s intention to wage an international diplomatic campaign against Israel, which would leverage the Palestinians’ upgraded status at the United Nations to sue Israel in the International Criminal Court. The statements come as Abbas’s Fatah faction, which controls the West Bank, has...

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Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded to a European Union statement blaming Jerusalem for obstructing peace by noting that the condemnation seems abstruse when lined up alongside recent Palestinian statements calling for Israel’s eradication and recent Palestinian diplomacy shattering the peace process. The MFA statement specifically called attention to...

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Washington, Dec. 7 – The United Nations General Assembly today overwhelmingly passed an Israeli-sponsored U.N. resolution titled “Entrepreneurship for Development,” marking the first time that the the U.N. has formally recognized that entrepreneurship should be a major tool in reducing poverty, creating sustainable development, and reinvigorating the environment. Substantively the resolution has...

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Palestinian Authority officials are now threatening to wage a campaign of international legal warfare against Israel, leveraging the upgraded status they secured via a diplomatic gambit at the United Nations last week. PA officials are raising the possibility that they will sue Israel over West Bank construction in the International...

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Fears that the Palestinian Authority will use its upgraded status in the United Nations to wage diplomatic warfare against Israel were heightened today by reports that the PA may sue Israel in the International Criminal Court over settlement construction. The news is in line with the pronouncements of Palestinian officials...

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Israeli officials are working to contain the diplomatic fallout from the government’s announcement to advance plans for the construction of 3,000 new housing units in areas immediately east of Jerusalem. The Israeli plan was unveiled in the aftermath of the Palestinians seeking and securing non-member statehood status in the United...

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