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As of March 2015, 164 states have ratified the CTBT and another 19 states have signed but not ratified it.
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Danon’s election as chair of the UN Legal Committee is an historic achievement for Israel, marking the first time that an Israeli representative will head a permanent committee.
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Signaling the Russians' intense interest in remaining involved in the process, TASS on Friday ran five different stories involving Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and the peace agreement.
In just one of many examples, a photo is captioned “settlers attack a Palestinian child ...” however, the child in the photo is actually a Jewish boy from Havat Gilad, and there are no Arabs in the photo at all.
"YOU are the Iron Dome of the State of Israel," Danon announced from the podium.
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Only 22 countries around the globe have reached an average life expectancy greater than 80 years, so if one is planning to retire abroad, one should consider those countries most seriously.
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Rafael Ramirez asked if "Israel wants a final solution to the Palestinians?"
Meir wrote to Ban Ki-Moon saying: Even you, Mr. Secretary General, while sitting at the head of that meeting, did not reach out to us and or take notice of our anguished faces.
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"The Quartet, which is supposed to guide the two parties to peace, has been largely irrelevant for the past several years."
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Mladenov appeared deeply offended by the PM's suggestion that his staff were uneducated.
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Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon responded saying, “Holding a meeting on this topic completely ignores the reality in the Middle East."
You pay terrorists, you glorify terrorists, shame on you,” shouted Danon.
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France, Spain, Sweden, Russia and Slovenia were among the non-Arab nations who supported the resolution.
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OCHA rarely, if ever, cites relevant Israeli government information, including detailed statistics published by COGAT, the IDF, or the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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"We consistently raise our staunch opposition to the council’s bias against Israel."
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"The position of the United Nations has not changed," a UN spokesman said. "He has not and will not take sides on the issue of Jerusalem."
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As of 1979, Israel has been settling in Judea and Samaria on "State land." The term was coined by then Attorney General Aharon Barak.
State Dept. cannot argue Iran violated Nuclear Deal by launching missiles due to US concessions to Iran to cinch nuclear deal.
The U.S. is condemning Iran for enjoying the ballistic missiles concessions the US gave to it in the Nuclear Iran Deal.
As Obama starts his march out of office, he once again is threatening to impose a deadly "peace plan" on Israel.
The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution imposing strict sanctions on North Korea.
Ban ki-moon challenged at NYC synagogue for justifying terrorism against Israelis.
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Yishai Fleisher writes: Two-State has flat-lined, and only fuddy-duddys like yourself, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, continue to obsess over reviving it.
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Some of the worst Arab terrorist attacks against Jews took place under the Rabin government, which established the Palestinian Authority.
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Netanyahu stated earlier, "Those Palestinians who murder do not want to build a state, they want to destroy a state and they say this openly.”
'12 UN resolutions against terror, not one condemning terror against Israel," Amb. Danon charged the UN with hypocrisy.
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So far, Iran's only response to international condemnations was to up the first prize from $12,000 to $50,000.
"The current President of Iran does not differ from his notorious predecessor, Ahmadinejad."
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Israel has the right to define the areas where it imposes its law, and it will be its choice, when the time comes, to include only those Arab communities that are not connected geographically to the Palestinian Authority.
UN official resigned in a snit because Israel refused to help him trash the Jewish State; the U.S. sided with Israel.
The United States, Canada and only two other countries stood up against 164 who voted for a U.N. resolution demanding Palestinian Authority sovereignty over Israel's natural resources.
Mahmoud Abbas proclaims the 'Palestinian Authority' no longer exists -- it has officially been replaced by the "State of Palestine."
The chief of the UN said at its annual anti-Israel Conference on Jerusalem, "The anger we are witnessing is bred from nearly five decades of Israeli occupation."
Samuels urged the Foreign Minister to "condemn the absurdity of Ashour's statement and immediately withdraw him from UNESCO and from foreign service."
The U.N. chief declared a moment of silence for terror victims on and then checked off the cities hit by terror - except for Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
At least for this coming group of asylum seekers, straight males are automatically disqualified.
Hollande and Obama committed to defeating radical terrorism of ISIS, but neither mentioned the word "Islam."
French Foreign Minister Fabius said, “Our American friends ... are maybe more open [to a Security Council resolution on Palestinian statehood] than before.”
"At this time of heightened tension, I caution against action that would only perpetuate the cycle of hatred and violence."
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Forty years ago, a dark chapter was written in the UN’s history, and despite the retraction of the resolution, the hypocrisy and delegitimization against Israel still echo in the halls of the UN.
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Through the recently completed UNICEF-supported rehabilitation works, approximately 589,250 Syrians and Jordanians are now benefiting from improved access to piped water systems.
Gag order released: A Gaza merchant was indicted for smuggling hundreds of tons of materials under the noses of UN inspectors.
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Israeli sources revealed the acceptance came after “intensive diplomatic efforts” at many different levels.
Abbas told U.N. Human Rights Commission, "For how long will this protracted Israeli occupation of our land last? After 67 years. how long?"
Chris Gunness, spokesman for UNRWA, addressed a "charity" organization that the U.S. has declared a terror group that funnels money to Hamas.
“It's a black day for human rights,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch.
New Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon politely tells the UN that what they need is an attitude adjustment.
Israel’s SpaceIL enters Google Lunar XPrize Competition and attempts to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon, a senior MFA official tells UN.
"Blaming Israel for the surge in violent attacks, must be condemned."
Rewriting history, UNESCO decided that the unquestionably Jewish sites are Muslim.
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The PA met with resistance from all sides.
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Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely called the UNESCO-sponsored resolution another “shameful and deceitful attempt” to rewrite history, adding that “the Temple Mount and the Western Wall in Jerusalem are the cornerstones of Jewish history. They are historical facts no one can dispute.”
Adoption Day of Nuclear Iran Deal: "all economic and financial bans against Iran" will be removed.
"This reprehensible act is yet another example of the escalating violence in the region [but] all sides [must] respect the sanctity of all holy sites."
Iranian parliament approved document very different from the JCPOA - it calls for ending sanctions and ending Israel's nuke program.
Iran's parliament has voted to approve the nuclear IranDeal.
The Palestinian Authority is ruled by anarchy, Israel has no choice but to kill or be killed, so the U.N. will gallop in next week on its horse called the "peace process."
Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you greetings from Jerusalem. The city in which the Jewish People's hopes and prayers for peace for all of humanity have echoed throughout the ages...
Bibi: Enough with the UN's Israel bashing obsession!
"It's unbearable to imagine how four children watched their parents murdered..."
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It was Netanyahu's 44 seconds of silence, symbolizing the world’s silence in the face of Iranian threats to annihilate Israel.
The Palestinians have refused to end the conflict and make a final peace with Israel.
The Middle East Quartet does not realize its notes are flat and reveal how tone-deaf are its members.
The office of the Prime Minister charged that Abbas does not intend to reach a peace agreement.
Abbas also faked out Israel by saying that no agreements are valid if Israel does not agree to his interpretations.
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Iran is ready to help “bring about democracy” in Syria and Yemen. Rouhani also a bridge in Brooklyn he's selling.
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Putin said, "We need to respect the interests of Israel, but are concerned about it's [Israel's] attack's on Syria."
The Prime Minister also will meet with John Kerry and Jewish leaders.
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Obama was vehement about the need to replace Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, while Putin insisted removing him would be a wrong move. Obama suggested Putin’s engagements in both Syria and Ukraine has been damaging to global instability.
Kerry and Zarif hold joint press conference - Kerry eager to please and Zarif solely focused on the prize.
US Iran Deal supporters are fine with Iran, without any oversight, choosing own samples for analysis
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was appalled by a blatantly one-sided statement from the UN Security Council regarding recent tensions around the Temple Mount.
The only other entity affected by this resolution is the Vatican, and they don't intend to take advantage of the change.
The Vatican, a non-member of the UN, wants its flag flying when the pope visits. The PA is trying to hitch its flag for a free ride.
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The remarks came after the AP published the full text of a draft agreement between IAEA and Iran, citing Hosseini Tash as a signatory at the bottom of the document.
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Iran will decide which images are “safe” enough to pass to UN inspectors, and which are “off-limits because they have military significance.”
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Danon and Netanyahu haven't always had the smoothest of relationships.
There was a time when the ruler of Iran (Persia) actually liked Israel...
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The report's scope is very limited, but that didn't stop UNRWA from widening it in their press release and tweets to attack Israel.
European Union-American acceptance of the lie of "Arab Susiya" is a twisted anti-Semitic libel on which the entire Arab claim to all of Israel is based.
The resolution sets the groundwork for lifting the UN sanctions from Iran.
Read "Catch the Jew" to learn the truth about Israel, Israelis, Arab Palestinians and the havoc-wreaking NGOs in the region.
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The purpose of the UNESCO heritage project is not to decide political issues, but to protect cultural sites, unless it involves Jews and Jerusalem.
By Rachel Levy
US-led talks with Tehran appear to have reached a deal on sanctions relief: but what about access to Iranian nuclear sites?
US alone voted no on UNHRC Resolution condemning only Israel for wrongdoing in last summer's conflict.
Great expectations.
The "occupation" was the most popular word in today's session.
UNRWA is "actively being counterproductive to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
The UN's Schabes report against Israel relied heavily on reports and testimony from leftwing Israeli NGOs.
The 36-page Schabes Report Summary on the Hamas War Against Israel in Gaza
The US expressed its condolences, which is more than the UN did, but Abbas said nothing,
Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela told the U.N. Human Rights Council their countries are bastions of freedom.
Lapid accuses ‘obsessed’ UN of assuming Jewish guilt.
Capability to attack with a nuclear weapon imam even be important than being able to produce a nuke.
Doesn’t Netanyahu understand that the UN opens its mouth if an Israeli home is rocketed and then warns the IDF not to "escalate tensions"?
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UN soldiers stationed in Katzrin don't care what laws they break or who they inconvenience.
World Bank also comes up with a brainstorm: Give more money to Hamas to "rehabilitate" Gaza, or is it vice-versa?
Iran caught red-handed trying to purchase equipment to pursue nuclear weaponization.
UN Watch: 'Electing Saudi Arabia as chair of UN Human Rights groups is like maying a pyromaniac the town fire chief.'
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Iran's clients and proxies use schools and hospitals to launch their attacks. The UN criticizes the other side for fighting back.