Tag: Security Council

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power responds to the Russians

We went looking for those items that best reflect how the report turns facts and figures on their heads to come up with the preconceived conclusion: it's all the fault of the Israeli occupation, and once Israel is out of the picture you'll see how those Palestinians will become Switzerland of the Middle East.

Liberman attacked the Europeans and the Americans who demand that Israel ignore the Supreme Court ruling to demolish Susiya, but to enforce the same court's ruling on demolishing the Jewish Amona community in northern Samaria.

He failed to mention the arrests and indictments by Israel of an international charity administrator and a UNDP employee, who confessed to directing millions of dollars to Hamas — which is why all those ruined buildings are yet to be rebuilt.

Secretary of State John Kerry said this week that “Nobody pretends that some of the challenges we have with Iran have somehow been wiped away."

Clinton didn’t even hint at the notion that Islamic terrorism or radical Islam played a role in the Orlando attack.

We redacted and edited the exchange to make it a tad more entertaining. But one can smell the danger hidden in the spokesman's evasions.

Israel has rejected out of hand a draft proposal by France to internationalize the Temple Mount.

Saudi Arabia is raising the issue of violence at the Temple Mount with the United Nations Security Council.

Da’esh (ISIS) murdered 19 women and girls for refusing to participate in “sexual jihad” with terrorists in Mosul.

Oren spilled the beans on Obama one week before his new book is released and four months after he dumped Netanyahu in the election campaign.

The White House denies the Yediot Achronot report, and Netanyahu's office has no comment.

"Sexual violence in conflict has become a weapon of choice because it is cheap, silent and effective."

Kerry wants to hear Netanyahu has to say about borders for the PA as defined by France and the United Nations.

PA leader Abbas demands UN force Israel back to 1949 Armistice Line by Nov. 2016.

UN Security Council labels Lebanese soldier's shooting death of Israeli soldier "deplorable."

You don’t even need to believe that antisemitism is at play to be contemptuous of the extraordinary myopia displayed in the Guardian report.

Lately, the pro-Western coalition has begun to crumble, and two key countries - Saudi Arabia and Egypt - are searching for a new political crutch.

Saudi Arabia rejected assuming the seat it just won on the UN Security Council.

It had to happen.  You knew it was going to happen. What with Iran getting a lead role on the Disarmament and International Security Committee,...

Israel is seeking a seat on the UN Security Council, something it has long been denied. Will Samantha Power prove true to her word and do all she can to help Israel attain this goal?

Should we be a little disturbed when the Obama Administration is recruiting a veteran GW Bush hand to support its war plans?

Minister Lavrov expressed outrage over the possibility of a NATO strike on Syrian chemical storage facilities without a mandate from the UN – a mandate Russia made sure would not be issued.

The Russians say a homemade rocket carrying chemical substances was launched by the opposition.

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor told the U.N. Security Council, “ I urge you to condemn the incident and the Syrian...

Here in Israel, keeping your head in the sand is seen as an unbearably expensive option.

Israel no longer intends to dismantle the Oslo Accords if Abbas goes through with his UN gambit.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Iran and the group of five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany have...

Ambassador Haim Waxman: "In previous letters . . . we warned of the dangers of inaction by the international community. We alerted the Council that these attacks had the potential to ignite a serious escalation of the conflict, which could affect the entire region. The events of the last two days have proven the danger of silence on behalf of the international community at large, and the Security Council, in particular."

Resolution will be similar to earlier Security Council resolution vetoed by Russia and China, but will be submitted to the General Assembly