Ynetnews reports: Natan Meir, who lost his wife Dafna Meir in a terror attack at their home in Otniel, was snubbed by every ambassador at the UN security council after being officially invited by Israeli Ambassador Danny Dannon, where they were present at a UN Security Council meeting dealing with the situation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Berlin (AFP) – US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Syria’s Bashar al-Assad of “repercussions” if his regime flouts a new truce being negotiated, as talks to halt the violence shifted to Berlin Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – A senior official in Jerusalem denied a report on Saturday that claimed Germany is growing increasingly frustrated with Israel’s settlement policies and Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she understands why Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking the support of the UN Security Council.
(AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sparked a new diplomatic brushfire by declaring that the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War, is and should remain “under Israel’s sovereignty permanently.”
The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday unanimously voiced alarm over Israeli statements about the Golan Heights on Syria’s border with Israel, a declaration that elicited a sharp response from Israel.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday denied that it has postponed its effort to seek a UN Security Council resolution calling for an end to construction in the settlements. The PA said that it was going ahead
TEL AVIV – The widower of an Israeli stabbing victim slammed the UN for blocking the path to peace by condemning Israel and spewing lies, the Algemeiner reported.
GENEVA (AFP) – Syria’s envoy to the United Nations on Monday denounced as “provocative” an unprecedented Israeli cabinet meeting held in the Golan Heights, which the Jewish state annexed decades ago. “It is an irresponsible provocation committed by Benjamin Netanyahu, the
The United States refused to say Thursday whether or not it would support a Palestinian proposal for a United Nations resolution to condemn Israeli settlement building — but ruled nothing out. While Washington often criticizes Israeli building work in occupied
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, on Thursday addressed the Security Council and called on the world’s nations to come together as a united front in the war on terrorism.
“During his final year in the White House, US President Barack Obama is preparing a metaphorical roadside IED for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It cannot be that the tainted relations between the two leaders will not end with Obama exacting some sweet revenge.”
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said there is an “urgent” need for a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements, in an interview with AFP ahead of a multi-country diplomatic tour. “The Security Council is a very important subject because it has now
JERUSALEM – The White House has not yet decided whether it will support a Palestinian initiative for a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank. On Friday, State Department spokesperson Mark Toner told reporters in Washington: “We understand
TEL AVIV – Weekend talk radio host Aaron Klein, who doubles as Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief, debated an anti-Israel caller to his radio show yesterday after the caller claimed Israel was not a democracy, posed a nuclear threat to the world, and did more harm than good for U.S. national security.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he hoped the United States would continue to reject any move towards a U.N. Security Council resolution backing Palestinian statehood. “A Security Council Resolution to pressure Israel would further harden Palestinian positions
TEL AVIV – A non-binding United Nations Security Council resolution on the two-state solution may be the best way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, opined a New York Times editorial published Monday. “There are several options, but the best may be a
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister on Tuesday used a meeting with his Australian counterpart to reject a U.S. argument that the test-firing of Iranian missiles last week violated a U.N. resolution. Mohammad Javad Zarif had a detailed conversation
The New York Times reports: Israel called on the United Nations Security Council on Monday to punish Iran for testing missiles capable of reaching Israel, which the Israelis said was a sign that the Iranians could not be trusted to
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia, which has veto power in the United Nations Security Council, said on Monday Iran should not face new council sanctions over recent ballistic missile tests as the tests did not violate a U.N. resolution. The
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday called for world powers to take “immediate punitive steps” against Iran, following its ballistic missile tests last week. A series of tests conducted by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards caused international concern,
TEL AVIV – Hillary Rodham Clinton is against the UN Security Council imposing terms for an Israeli-Palestinian peace process “from without,” her campaign said on Tuesday. In an op-ed Clinton wrote for the Jewish newspaper the Forward, the presidential hopeful
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s official news agency says the Revolutionary Guard has launched several ballistic missiles during a military exercise. The Tuesday report by IRNA did not elaborate but said the missiles were launched from silos in several locations
TEL AVIV – Israel Ambassador to the UN slammed Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Maliki’s call to countries all around the world to bar entry to Jewish residents of the West Bank as “pure anti-Semitism.” At a meeting of the United Nations Human
TEL AVIV – Israel’s head of Military Intelligence warned that deteriorating conditions in Gaza endanger Israel’s security amid threats by members of Hamas that another outbreak of violence is on the horizon if an exit route isn’t provided, Ynet reported.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former United Nations secretary general who died earlier this week at age 93, left behind a mixed legacy, comprised of praise and criticism.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Amid concerns the raging war in Syria may widen, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (pictured) told Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold on Thursday that Russia is keen on seeing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process resume. Gold, heading a
TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly concerned that the Obama administration may attempt to impose a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before Obama leaves office. Citing an Army Radio report on Sunday, the Times of Israel writes
The Times of Israel reports: Jerusalem is bracing for a series of Palestinian statehood initiatives in various international forums, including resolutions at the United Nations Security Council, Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon (pictured) said Thursday. “The Palestinians are
The Jerusalem Post reports: In a rare New York Times op-ed, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon scolded Israel on Monday for its criticism of his comments last week that Jerusalem interpreted as giving a tailwind to terrorism, chiding Israel for “lashing
TEL AVIV – A Left-leaning Meretz official accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of giving the French “the middle finger” following France’s threat to recognize Palestine in the absence of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Tel Aviv – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the UN Security Council to provide the Palestinians with international protection from Israel amid fears that the Israeli government’s policies “would lead to the entry of Daesh [the Islamic State] into
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the UN slammed the UN Security Council on Tuesday, accusing it of “hypocrisy” for failing to condemn a single terror attack against Israeli civilians while adopting 12 resolutions on terrorism in other parts of
TEL AVIV – A piece in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsa opined that the detention of 10 American sailors just hours before President Obama’s final State of the Union address effectively “kidnapped” the “foolish” U.S. president himself by casting a shadow over his authority.
Iran is “on the march” while President Obama’s foreign policy is “nowhere” to be found, opined Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein in a radio interview. Klein was speaking during his weekly segment on John Batchelor’s popular national radio show.
TEL AVIV – The UN Security Council passed a resolution seemingly legitimizing the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and invited Iran to join the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), MEMRI reported. On December 18, 2015, the UNSC unanimously passed Resolution 2254,
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, called on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to condemn Sunday’s rocket attacks on northern Israel. Three rockets were fired from southern Lebanon and were believed to have fallen in open territory in the
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a French-sponsored resolution Friday calling on all nations to redouble and coordinate action to prevent further attacks by Islamic State terrorists and other extremist groups. The resolution says the Islamic
Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Uruguay, and Ukraine have received a non-permanent spot on the United Nations Security Council.
The Baltic nations used their platforms at the UN Security Council to protest Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the past 20 months, Russia has threatened the three former Soviet republics repeatedly, which has forced the governments to amp up security.
Contents: Russia and Iran send more troops to Syria to back faltering al-Assad; Putin’s plan for Syria: al-Assad regime in anti-ISIS coalition with West; Assad regime and ISIS are apparently BOTH now using chemical weapons in Syria
