When it comes to combating anti-Israel bias at the United Nations, “there’s a new sheriff in town,” United States Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley proclaimed on Monday at the AIPAC Policy Conference. Haley cited two episodes that demonstrated her commitment to protecting Israel from unfair attacks. First, she recalled...
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Western Democracies should join the United States in exerting pressure on the United Nations “to shed its reputation for bloated, ludicrous hypocrisy and restore trust and credibility to international institutions,” former Israeli ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor wrote in Newsweek on Wednesday. Prosor credited newly-installed United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and United States ambassador...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Sunday that he will grant his people’s highest honor to the former head of a United Nations agency that issued a widely criticized report on Israel last week, Haaretz reported. According to a statement from the office of the Palestinian president, Abbas informed Rima Khalaf by phone...
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The secretary-general of the United Nations on Friday requested the removal of an inflammatory report on Israel, which was co-authored by a discredited former UN official on behalf of an agency representing Arab nations, The Times of Israel reported. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for the report — compiled by...
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A new report released on Friday by the United Nations Human Rights Council charged the Syrian regime with committing war crimes in the last seven months, including by bombing schools and water supplies. In October, planes executed a so-called “double tap attack” on a school complex near Idlib, bombing a school and then...
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The United States Ambassador to the United Nations said on Wednesday that Washington supported efforts to bring peace to Syria, and stressed that any agreement must “get Iran and their proxies” out of the embattled country, Radio Free Europe reported. After attending a Security Council briefing on a recently-concluded round of...
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For those of us who spent much of 2016, based upon then-candidate Donald Trump’s own bombastic declarations, worrying about the thrust of the foreign policy of a future Trump administration, President Trump’s address to Congress Feb. 28 provided welcome relief. As ever, precise details were scarce and important shifts of...
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“If your house was on fire and you could only take one object with you, what would it be?” It’s a common question, often posed when people are trying to get to know one another. I was asked it by a friend just a few weeks ago. I glanced around....
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Bibi’s Diplomacy Down Under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warmly received as he visited South Asian allies this week. In Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong noted during their joint meeting on Monday that the two young nations have a long history of friendship: “When we became independent, the IDF helped us...
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Washington’s envoy to the United Nations met on Wednesday with the parents of a fallen Israeli soldier whose body is being held by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, The Times of Israel reported. Leah and Simha Goldin asked Ambassador Nikki Haley to help pressure Hamas to return the body of their son, Hadar, and that of another Israeli...
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