Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon welcomed the selection Wednesday of Nikki Haley to represent the US at the world body, calling the South Carolina Governor “a longstanding and true friend of Israel” and an “outspoken fighter against the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement in her state and throughout the US.”
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority and the French government have been pressuring the Obama administration to submit a plan to the United Nations that would impose guidelines for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, a PA official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Haley is a political pick. She will need experienced hands — and not career bureaucrats from the State Department — to fill the other UN slots.
Today, I feel a personal responsibility to make this point: Samantha Power’s failure to stop genocide while in office renders her the wrong person to deliver the Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon sent a letter to the UN Security Council revealing newly released intelligence indicating that Tehran is transporting arms and ammunition Hezbollah in Lebanon via civilian flights.
For the first time since the end of World War II, Japanese forces have been deployed abroad with a mandate to use force.
Axel Bugge of Reuters reports that Antonio Guterres, the new United Nations Secretary General, “warned on Tuesday that rich countries were ignoring the ‘losers of globalization’ by turning to nationalist agendas, as in the U.S. election and Brexit referendum.” He also “linked the growing resistance to accepting refugees to wider concerns about globalization.”
Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton warned Sunday that President Obama should not take any actions before leaving office that could hurt Israel at the U.N.
Government bombardment of besieged rebel-held neighborhoods in Aleppo killed at least 20 people Saturday, the worst since airstrikes resumed earlier this week, said Syrian opposition activists, as the U.S. called for an end to the bombings.
TEL AVIV – Eleven Arab nations warned outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that “expansionist” and “sponsor of terrorism” Iran has only intensified its policy of “aggression in the region and the continuation of support for terrorist groups” since the nuclear deal.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon led a conference at UN headquarters Wednesday in New York City, aiming to organize legal efforts to combat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said this week he is willing to join a “new world order” created by communist China and the rogue Russian regime.
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Eleven Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa, echoing an official U.S. position, have accused Shiite powerhouse Iran of being a state sponsor of “terrorism,” noting that the Islamic Republic is “funding and arming militias that destabilize our region.”
TEL AVIV – The United Nation’s World Health Organization recognized the IDF’s medical and disaster relief team as “the number one in the world” in a ceremony last week.
Arab leaders must treat the region’s 100 million young people as an asset, not a liability, the UN’s youth envoy said in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants have summarily killed scores of civilians in the Iraqi city of Mosul in recent days, sometimes using children as executioners, and have used chemical agents against Iraqi and Kurdish troops, according to United Nations officials.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists, feeling the pressure from the U.S.-backed Iraqi military and its allies on all sides of their de-facto capital of Mosul, Iraq, are perpetrating a “numbing” extent of civilian suffering, including hanging 66 corpses of alleged traitors, using radicalized children as suicide bombers, and using chemical weapons, reports the United Nations.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’s nuclear watchdog group, reported on Wednesday that Iran has violated the terms of the nuclear deal again, exceeding a limit of 130 metric tons for heavy water. Iran exceeded the same limit last February.
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) has concluded that the 2011 “Arab Spring” uprisings cost the affected countries a total of $614 billion, amounting to 6% of their combined Gross Domestic Product.
The Russian government issued a statement accusing assorted anti-Syrian government rebels of using chemical weapons in Aleppo, hours after refusing to participate in an international condemnation of both Damascus and the Islamic State for the same crime.
Isis militants have executed scores more people around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul this week and are reported to be stockpiling dangerous chemicals in civilian areas, the UN human rights office said on Friday.
Iraqi security forces are preparing to advance toward Mosul airport on the city’s southern edge to increase pressure on Islamic State militants fighting troops who breached their eastern defenses, officers said on Thursday.
Hundreds demonstrated in the Moroccan capital Wednesday against the Israeli flag being flown beside the colors of 195 other countries at UN climate talks in the central city of Marrakesh.
Pro-Israel groups will erect a giant Pinocchio effigy across from the United Nations headquarters in New York City in protest of the recent resolutions passed by its cultural body, UNESCO, which deny Jewish and Christian connections to Jerusalem.
Committees of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted 10 resolutions against Israel. The committees were also taking up four other resolutions — on Syria, North Korea, Iran and Crimea.
TEL AVIV – The Israeli government discriminates against Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount in order to protect their safety, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Monday at the Knesset.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority is preparing to demand that UNESCO force Israel to return the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the Jewish state’s most important archeological treasures and proof of Jewish existence in the land two millennia ago.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a public plea Sunday for the US continue its support for Israel and not seek a UN resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “whoever wins” Tuesday’s election.
A coalition of 54 African states submitted a resolution Friday calling for the suspension of the UN’s new LGBT investigator, noting that gender identity and sexual orientation have no place in international human rights instruments.
The Palestinian government will protest against a delay in its application to join the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) at the body’s annual conference next week, an official said Friday.
Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador the UN, made a clandestine visit to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to take part in a UN development conference, Channel 2 reported on Thursday.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, covered a range of national security topics during his Breitbart News Daily appearance on Thursday, including his call for the director of national intelligence to withhold all classified briefings from Hillary Clinton until the FBI investigation is resolved.
TEL AVIV – Christians all over the world have been called upon by the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem to mail bibles to UNESCO leadership in Paris in response to the recent UNESCO resolutions erasing Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount.
The Islamic State group is forcibly gathering people in and around Mosul for possible use as human shields against advancing Iraqi forces, residents said Wednesday, confirming UN fears.
Iraqi forces fought their way into jihadist-held Mosul on Tuesday as a top commander said the “true liberation” of the city from the Islamic State group had begun.
Iraqi forces fought their way into jihadist-held Mosul on Tuesday as a top commander said the “true liberation” of the city from the Islamic State group had begun.
The United Nations has employed many friends, relatives, and political associates of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to work on relief operations in Syria, a move that has resulted in more aid being delivered to government-held territories than areas controlled by the opposition, reveal leaked UN documents obtained by The Guardian.
The Middle East has few bright spots these days, but one is the budding rapprochement between Israel and its Sunni Arab neighbors, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, thanks to shared threats from Iran and Islamic State.
Elite Iraqi forces were poised Tuesday for a first push into Mosul, after the prime minister warned jihadists who hold the city they have no choice but to surrender or die.
