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The UN Security Council wants a cease fire now. The focus is on the safety of Gaza civilians, but not Israel's security.
The IDF claims from their investigation and released video of the shell that hit the UNRWA school that they did not kill the 16 people.
Make up your mind: PA Chairman can't decide whether Palestinians are sovereign state or feeble protectorate
Thinking her microphone's been turned off, UN translator speaks her mind about world body's anti-Israel obsession.
Hamas committed two war crimes at once – firing from the area of the school and preventing civilians to evacuate.
Hamas rockets exploded in the area, and there was heavy combat going on. UNRWA admits rockets hidden in their other schools have "gone missing."
Foreign Minister protests UNRWA storage of missiles, equipment in UN facilities.
US Secy of State John Kerry told reporters in Jerusalem there is "still work to be done" in trying for a cease fire with Hamas.
By Rachel Levy
Another UNRWA school is found to be a storage spot for untold number of Hamas missiles.
Ban ki-Moon and John Kerry might have some credibility if they would talk peace with terrorists in Syria.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said Tuesday that he respects the legitimacy of Israel’s right to defend itself, but also called on Israel to limit its reaction to ongoing Hamas rocket fire at Israeli civilians. According to a report on the Hebrew-language Ynet website, Mr Ban also said his organization rejected the terror gang’s […]
By Shalom Bear
UNRWA didn't dispose of the Hamas rockets stored in their school. They transferred them to Hamas.
Not an altogether terrible day for Israel at the UN, given there were no riots or demands that Israel surrender unilaterally.
By Rachel Levy
UNRWA discovered 20 rockets stashed in one of its schools in Gaza on Wednesday during a routine inspection.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The PLO envoy to the UNHRC admits the Palestinian Authority unity government commits war crimes.
Hamas, like the Palestinian Authority, is destroying itself.
Fatah is as guilty as Hamas for the kidnap-murders because of its incitement for terror.
Israeli pres talks about terror, reminds UN leader that rockets aimed at civilian targets in Israel; Ban calls for boys' release
Mrs. Frenkel to UN HRC: "Much more can be done to bring back our boys."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
'The “State of Palestine”, considered to be a non-member state observer in the UN, have taken three Israeli youths hostage, in clear violation of all basic humanitarian norms and conventions."
Naftali's mother will ask the international community for help finding the boys and returning them safely.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Beit Guvrin Caves and Maresha are the Eighth UNESCO Heritage Site in Israel
Serry says he was trying to openly, not secretly, funnel money to Hamas.
PM Netanyahu spoke with UN chief Ban Ki-moon, explaining to him the facts of life.
UN envoy Robert Serry was reportedly determined to find a way to get that money to Hamas. He apparently tried a little too hard.
By Shalom Bear
It seems that the only way for Israel to advance in the UN is for the Arabs to not know which countries support it.
By Rachel Levy
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appears to be retracting his condemnation of the terror kidnapping of 3 Israeli teens.
Ban Ki-moon couldn't mouth a simple condemnation, like he did for kidnappings in other countries.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
An overflow crowd of hundreds of community activists, diplomats and religious leaders watched, as Irina Bokova, UNESCO's Director General joined with official co-sponsors; Israel, Canada, United States and Montenegro at the unveiling ceremony.
Exhibition to detail Jewish history, ties to Land of Israel
Serry promised more U.N. money for Gaza and called for lifting the legal blockade of Gaza's borders.
The Prime Minister didn't mince words at Sunday's cabinet meeting, slamming the int'l community for embracing the Hamas government, while praising Australia for its moral clarity.
Australia joins Canada in extending real hands of friendship to Israel.
Palestinians are the only refugee group in the world with a relief organization dedicated to their issue. Other refugee populations have been resettled; why are Palestinians different?
Ambassador Prosor: “There are three monotheistic religions, yet only two are recognized by the U.N calendar. Such discrimination at the UN must end."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A group of lawyers have requested the UN review and reconsider any acceptance of Palestinian Authority requests for accession to international conventions, pending fulfillment of the legal and moral requirements set out in international law and practice.
Russian Jews led the call for a wider, global Jewish recognition of the rescue of European Jewry.
The United Nations is considering the possibility that Iran just might have figured out how to avoid international sanctions in order to continue that country’s drive to develop nuclear weapons. According to a confidential new report by a U.N. panel that compliance with international sanctions, Tehran appears to be using its petrochemical industry as a […]
Wibisono is replacing the anti-Israeli Richard Falk, or perhaps this is just a Falk 2.0 upgrade.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Ambassador Ron Prosor said: "...One of those missiles could trigger the next terror attack. One of those shipments could carry a dirty bomb."
The US may pretend it was forced to give up Pollard, but it is US that most wants to continue talks.
Iran named a terrorist as ambassador to the UN, the Senate passed a bill banning his entry.
Carter still wears blinders that make him see that everything that Abbas does is for peace.
Unless this becomes law, a terrorist who aided in the U.S. hostage taking in Iran will get a U.S. visa
Now ain't that a slap in the face.
Despite mini-crises over fake passports and Prisoner X, Australia has been one of Israel’s most reliable allies.
Glick strips the bark from the threat of a One State Solution and reveals a worthy option: the Israeli Solution
New campaign to oust the world's worst human rights abusers from the UN Human Rights Council
“In today’s international climate where people are looking for every reason to hate Israel, we cannot allow untruths to go unchallenged.”
Falk lies in answers to “who shoots at Gaza fishermen and who prevents Palestinian Authority Arabs from protesting?”
The United States and United Nations once again have showed their weakness and have failed to prevent violence in Ukraine.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hamas has blocked the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East from introducing new textbooks for 7th-9th grade students in Gaza because they do not match the Palestinian terrorist group’s violence-driven ideology. “There is a tremendous focus [in the textbooks] on the peaceful resistance as the only tool to […]
By JTA
Samantha Power, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, recommitted to securing Israel a tour on the U.N. Security Council after assisting its entry to a U.N. regional group. Israel last month became a member of the JUSCANZ regional group at U.N. headquarters in New York. JUSCANZ stands for Japan, United States, Canada, Australia, and […]
A UNESCO bioethics unit harshly condemned the ASA's boycott of Israeli academics.
The Interior Ministry said Sunday it has granted asylum status to two illegal infiltrators from Eritrea, but thousands of others still are demanding the same status. The United Nations agency for refugees and Israeli leftists have accused Israel of trying to deport the illegal African infiltrators without a fair examination concerning their claims they entered […]
It’s all over but the shouting.
Iran proves once again it cannot be trusted, but is anyone listening?
The United States has backed an ultimatum by Syrian opposition forces to rescind an invitation to Iran to joint the Geneva II peace talks scheduled for Wednesday unless Tehran publicly accepts that the conference will establish a political process to end the rule of Syrian President Bassar al-Assad. The peace talks appeared to be over before […]
Complaints by Arab states led UNESCO to cancel the exhibition.
By JTA
The decision arose out of UNESCO’s support for peace talks.
The United Nations no longer will report on how many people have been killed in the raging Syrian civil war because it says it no longer has enough sources in the field for reliable information. The last official count by the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was around 100,000, while the […]
Israel is taking care of those who truly are refugees.
By JTA
Canada has called for the removal of a top U.N. official who accused Israel of having “genocidal intentions” against Palestinians. Ottawa “completely rejects and condemns” the “appalling” remarks made by Richard Falk, U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said in a statement. Canada has previously called for Falk to […]
By JTA
Canada has called for the removal of a top U.N. official who accused Israel of having “genocidal intentions” against Palestinians. Ottawa “completely rejects and condemns” the “appalling” remarks made by Richard Falk, U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said in a statement. Canada has previously called for Falk to […]
Lebanese media reported that Israeli warplanes carried out surveillance flights over southern Lebanon in Tuesday, as Lebanese, United Nations and Israeli officials try to keep the lid on tensions following Sunday night’s murder of Israel soldier Sgt. Shlomi Cohen by a Lebanese soldier. The Air Force frequently sends planes into Lebanese air space to monitor […]
UN Security Council labels Lebanese soldier's shooting death of Israeli soldier "deplorable."
Lebanese shirked from responsibility for the murder of Sgt. Shlomi Cohen and explained that the Lebanese soldier who shot and killed him acted on his own. UNIFIL confirmed the Lebanese claim and said, “All the circumstances of this incident are not clear at this time, but preliminary findings indicate that it was an individual action […]
The number of refugees from Syria next year will reach 4 million, more than one-sixth of the country’s population of 23 million, the United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA predicted. An additional 9.3 million will be in need of assistance inside the country, devastated by the civil war that erupted from the Arab Spring protests three […]
Interviewed by France 24, UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer says UNHRC election of China, Cuba, Russia, Saudi Arabia is a "black day for human rights."
Lebanese Social Affairs Minister Wael Abou Faour expressed fear on Wednesday over the “disastrous” conditions of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon amid the winter storm hitting the country, al-Akhbar reported. “We are incapable, the ministry is working through international associations to aid the refugees,” Abou Faour said in an interview, adding that “frosting will take […]
By JTA
Bill Richardson, the former U.N. ambassador known for his efforts to release American captives overseas, called on President Obama to free Jonathan Pollard immediately. In a Dec. 10 letter to Obama, whom he endorsed after dropping out of the 2008 presidential race, Richardson noted that an increasing number of figures involved in government when Pollard […]
Falk Complains: "The Ultra-Zionist UN Watch Complicated My Task"
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Congress on Tuesday that new sanctions against Iran would be “gratuitous” and could harm any agreement with Iran as well as relations with world powers in the P5+1 group. Speaking to the House Foreign Affairs Committee before leaving for another trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority and […]
After more than 60 years as a member nation of the UN, Israel will finally have an official regional home there as of Jan. 1, 2014
By JTA
Israel may join for the first time a regional group within the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of a deal to improve the U.N. body’s relations with the Jewish state. The council’s Western European and Others Group (WEOG) is expected to announce that its member states have voted in favor of Israel’s admittance, […]
Senegal is a source, transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation.
On November 18, Palestine’s UN delegation cast a vote for the first time as a non-member observer state, after the General Assembly had voted to upgrade the Palestinians’ “entity” status a year ago. Chief Palestinian UN observer Ambassador Riyad Mansour told reporters it was a symbolic step, “but it is an important one because it […]
Palestinian Authority Arabs on popular service committees in U.N.-run villages, commonly known as refugee camps, are shutting down UNRWA offices and programs in northern Samaria Wednesday and Thursday in protest of “systematic reductions” in services for residents, the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency reported. Similar protests have occurred in Gaza where UNRWA is the dominant influence […]
There was a microphone misfire at the UN on Thursday - someone told the truth!
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset Wednesday there are three choices on dealing with the Iranian threat – a bad deal, war or sanctions. “I would even say that a bad deal is liable to lead to the second, undesired, result,” he added. “There is no reason to submit to Iranian diktat; neither is […]
Kerry is now trying to defang the "biting sanctions" this administration crowed incessantly about during the presidential campaign.
Kerry's gloves came off last week, now former legal counsel to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs removed his. The difference? The Israeli's speech sans gloves are steeped in law and fact.
Belgium is hinting that others in the European community may soon follow suit.
By JTA
The United Nations’ cultural body suspended the voting rights of the United States and Israel two years after they stopped paying dues in protest over its granting full membership to the Palestinians. Both countries missed a Friday deadline to provide an official justification of non-payment and a plan to pay back the missed dues to […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Carmel Caves in northern Israel were recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a heritage site in a special ceremony on the Carmel Wednesday. The caves were recognized for the exceptional per-historic archaeological findings found in the caves which represent at least 500,000 years of human evolution. The Carmel […]
If that's the way Israel thinks, no wonder the representative of "Palestine" claims Israel has no right to hold those murderers at all.
Such human rights stalwarts as Cuba, Pakistan, Algeria, Tunisia and 'Palestine' vilified Israel for refusing to submit to a UN Human Rights Council review of its human rights record.
Germany reportedly has told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Israel faces “serious consequences” if it does not restore its former relationship with the U.N. Human Rights Council. Avigdor Lieberman, who was Foreign Minister last year, cut Israel’s ties with the panel after it announced it was going to investigate the Jewish presence in Judea and […]
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, and Syria having been selected to serve on UNESCO's Human Rights Committee, it had to happen. Saudi Arabia, the bottom feeder of human rights, especially for women's rights, has received […]
Jews visit Rachel’s Tomb Tuesday to pray that she cries for them. Today, the anniversary of her death, the Palestinian Authority has failed to turn it into a Muslim holy site. Chalk up one for the truth.
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?
Rohani claims that he rejected five White House requests to meet with Obama which is just as well. Don’t U.S. sanctions include not picking up the tab for dinner? Or maybe Rouhani demanded that Bibi pay.
On the heels of Israel's warning to the world of the existential dangers posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, that country was chosen for a leadership position on the U.N. Disarmament and International Security Committee.
PM Netanyahu said Israel will not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons, even if it must stand alone to do so.
President Obama is set to give a press conference at this afternoon about the U.S. government shut down. Obama's speech, which is expected to be covered live by all the major networks, will conflict and overlap with Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech at the UN, which the major networks were supposed to be covering at the […]
Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday it will cancel its scheduled speech at the United Nations General Assembly this week to protest the new soft glove approach of the United Nations and the United States towards Iran and Syria. Citing sources in Saudi Arabia, the Italian ANSA news agency reported that Riyadh is unhappy over President Barack […]
Israel and Iran may be the only two countries that tell each other what they really think, without diplomatic niceties. Tehran calls Netanyahu a liar after he warned that Iran tries to deceive the world.
It is chutzpa but no surprise that Syria told the U.N. the “terrorist” rebellion is its 9/11. It is a surprise that the US delegates did not throw him out of the General Assembly.
“Truth or Consequences” was an old TV show. An entertainer performed a stupid stunt if he could not answer an equally stupid trivia question. Now Netanyahu and Obama are playing, but it is not a game.
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