The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor’s office said on Friday it was considering the legal implications after the UN General Assembly’s overwhelming vote to recognize the Palestinian Authority as a non-member state. “The Office of the Prosecutor takes note of the decision” and will now “consider the legal implications of this resolution,” it said in […]
In the wake of the UN vote on “Palestine,” Israel must declare sovereignty over its communities in Judea and Samaria (Shomron), Samaria regional council head Gershon Mesika said Friday in an urgent appeal to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The PA appeal to the UN was clearly “a media ploy, and an event that was in […]
Hours before the United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of recognizing the Palestinian Authority as a non-member observer state, the official U.N. Twitter account made an egregious typo, tweeting in favor of a one-state solution. “On Day of Solidarity with Palestinians, Ban Ki-moon stresses urgency of reaching 1-state solution,” read the tweet. The message, […]
Today’s Top Stories 1. The UN General Assembly’s Palestinian statehood vote’s on Thursday. Britain looks likely support the Palestinian statehood bid, reports the Financial Times (via Google News). The FT says London wants three Palestinian assurances: • The PA won’t join the International Criminal Court or other UN agencies. • The PA won’t use non-member […]
The Palestinian Authority, which has been pushing to be recognized as a state in the United Nations, has won a symbolic victory—an upgrade of its status. Despite the fact that the Palestinian push for unilateral statehood violates all existing internationally agreed frameworks for negotiating a peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the United Nations General […]
GENEVA, Switzerland— Although this past week saw U.N. agencies and high officials rushing to intervene the moment Israel began to defend its civilian population from hundreds of Hamas rocket attacks, letters published by UN Watch show that the same U.N. actors repeatedly turned a blind eye while Israel pleaded for action. Russian ambaasador Vitaly Churkin, […]
First we hear about Reid wanting to raise the debt ceiling once again, did the Obama voters expect repeating the same actions and expecting a different outcome? Well it gets worse, day two after the election, anyone remember that United Nations Small Arms Treaty from earlier this year that passed while the media slept doing […]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton downplayed the suggestion that emails implicating an Al Qaeda-linked group in the attack on the American embassy in Benghazi were proof of terrorist involvement, saying their claims of responsibility on Facebook and Twitter were not “evidence.” The recently obtained emails, which raise questions about whether the White House was […]
A new satellite image suggests that additional suspicious activity may be occurring at the Parchin site in Iran, according to a report by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS). The new GeoEye image dated August 15, 2012 shows that additional suspicious activity may be occurring at a building suspected of housing high explosive […]
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch opined on the upcoming U.S. presidential election via Twitter Saturday morning, calling an Obama victory a “nightmare” for Israel. Medialite.com reported that Murdoch began airing his views on the subject with the following Twitter message at 11:09 a.m.:”White House still lying about Benghazi. HAD to know truth, or is whole […]
