By Jim Kouri At just about the same time the news media swooned over President Barack Obama’s speech at the United Nations on Monday, hundreds of Islamist terrorists from the group the President boasted about was on the decline during a bloody ambush that recaptured the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. The members of […]
Putin delivered a much-anticipated speech outlining Russia’s position to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. Here is a summary of what he said. Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered relatively few surprises at his UN General Assembly, despite what has been described as a buildup with additional aid sent to Syria and information sharing regarding the fight against ISIL also established […]
By Joseph A. Klein United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon insisted, in a statement released on September 8th, that European nations open their doors to the many thousands of Middle Easterners and North Africans said to be “fleeing war and violence, who have a right to seek asylum without any form of discrimination.” The statement […]
In what seems quite odd, the UK-based Jewish Chronicle reported on Monday that Britain last week voted in favor of a UN resolution to back the Human Rights Council’s report that accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza – at the request of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. According to the report, Netanyahu’s office called British […]
by Steven J. Rosen Justice Winter 2014-2015 American defenders of Israel generally see the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as one of the worst UN agencies, an organization that harbors terrorists, teaches militant conflict with Israel and anti-Semitism in its schools, and perpetuates the Palestinian refugee issue as a source of tension.[1] Yet […]
(CNSNews.com) – The Islamic Republic of Iran’s use of “cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment persist[s] at alarming rates,” including a “surge in executions” over the past 14 months, said Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, special rapporteur to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). “Of particular alarm is the surge in executions documented this year,” Shaheed said […]
By Joseph A. Klein The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) was established in 2005, at the initiative of former UN Secretary General Kofi Anan and co-sponsored by the Governments of Spain and Turkey. Its stated vision is to build “mutual respect among peoples of different cultural and religious identities, highlighting the will of the […]
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) on Tuesday said William Schabas’s resignation from the UN Human Rights Council’s Gaza war probe will not affect the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry, which is investigating “war crimes” charges against Israel. Those findings are “as prejudiced as the body that established it, whose sole purpose is bashing and […]
(CNSNews.com) – An Arab-backed bid to have the U.N. Security Council set a deadline for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state failed Tuesday, as a resolution failed to achieve the minimum of nine votes needed in the 15-member body. The resolution attracted eight votes, with two countries – the U.S. and Australia – […]
By Alan Caruba The right of Israel to exist as a nation was officially recognized by the United Nations on November 29, 1947 when it adopted Resolution 181 favoring the partition of the area claimed by the Zionist movement. The resident Arabs refused to accept the land set aside for a “Palestinian” state. The British […]
