Tag: United Nations
Why the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire is fated to fail … and why that’s a good...
Some 415 days after Hezbollah launched a war against Israel in solidarity with Hamas following its Oct. 7 massacre, the United States, France, Israel and Lebanon announced a ceasefire. While the Biden administration surely...
What the UN ignores on Francesca Albanese
During a press conference at Parliament Hill in the Canadian capital of Ottawa on Nov. 5, Francesca Albanese—the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories—once again accused Israel of the usual. That means...
UN calls for conference to advance Palestinian state
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution calling for a "High-level International Conference" to be held in June to push forward the establishment of a state of Palestine.
The conference will advance...
UN Watch: Former UNRWA chief hailed ‘spirit of partnership’ in meeting with terrorists
Former United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl repeatedly met with senior members of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, expressing the U.N. agency's willingness to work together in the "spirit of...
Trump nominates Stefanik for UN envoy role
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday nominated Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), chair of the House Republican Conference, to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in his upcoming administration.
“I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise...
Israel cancels agreement recognizing UNRWA
Israel has terminated the 1967 agreement outlining the terms of its relations with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a week after the Knesset passed legislation banning the organization's operations in the...
The UNRWA meltdown
If anything illuminates the insanity and moral bankruptcy of our times, it’s the reaction to Israel’s decision to act against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
Laws passed this week by the Israeli...
UNRWA is a front for terrorism
A bill to outlaw any dealing with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is supposed to come up for a vote in the Knesset at the end...
Will Israel lock out UNRWA over Oct. 7 complicity?
Like many others, Yonatan Samerano was murdered during Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023 massacre and his body abducted to Gaza, where it remains to this day.
According to Israel, his killers were employees of UNRWA, the United Nations...
Negotiating what with whom?
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is a decorated retired Army officer. He was supportive of Israel’s foray into Lebanon in the beginning. It would have been hard for him not to be, as...