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| January 26, 2017
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Trump signs Exec Order: UN orgs that recognize Palestinian state lose US funding

 

NYT reports Trump’s executive order would halt all US funding to any UN body or agency that recognize the Palestinian Authority or PLO as a full member state.

BY MICHAEL WILNER, TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order that would halt all US funding to UN agencies that recognize the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization as a full member.

The move, first reported in the New York Times, would create a committee tasked with reviewing US aid to the international bodies and programs. The order specifically calls for a review of aid to UN peacekeeping efforts. Continue Reading »

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| January 18, 2017
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Trump’s UN nominee to rebuke world body over built-in anti-Israel bias

 

Gov. Nikki Haley is planning to admonish the UN during her Senate confirmation, for too often being at odds with American national interests and its ‘consistent’ & ‘outrageous…bias against our close ally Israel.’
– Haley asked, “Are we getting what we pay for?”

By Reuters

 

US President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be US ambassador to the United Nations will blast the world body over its treatment of Israel at her Senate confirmation hearing, according to prepared testimony seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

Then S. Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley joined U.S. military service members for the launch of Operation Palmetto Employment – Photo: Wikimedia Commons/US Air Force

“Nowhere has the UN’s failure been more consistent and more outrageous than in its bias against our close ally Israel,” Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said in the opening remarks for her appearance on Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Continue Reading »

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| December 20, 2016
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UN appeals to member states for over half-billion to aid Palestinians

 

Ignoring the current trends controlled by the corrupt & gangster-like gov’t of Hamas, pro-Palestinian UN bureaucrats are appealing for $547 million in aid, claiming the Hamas controlled coastal enclave could become uninhabitable by 2020 should Israel and Egypt maintain their blockade.

By i24news

 

The United Nations launched an appeal Monday for $547 million (524 million euros) to help 1.6 million people in the Palestinian territories in 2017.

The response covers 1.1 million residents of the Gaza Strip, which has been under an Israeli blockade for the past decade, and half a million people in the occupied West Bank.

Billionaire Palestinians

The most recent conflict between Israel and Gaza ended in August 2014 but Israel has maintained tight restrictions on the enclave, while Egypt has also closed its border. Continue Reading »

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| December 18, 2016
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Outgoing UN chief Ban admits bias towards Israel is ‘disproportionate’

 

Outgoing Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon admits that, “Decades of political maneuvering have created a disproportionate number of resolutions, reports & committees against Israel.”

By Shlomo Cesana and Erez Linn

 

Outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon admitted Saturday that the United Nations is, in fact, biased toward Israel.

“Over the last decade I have argued that we cannot have a bias against Israel at the U.N.,” Ban told the U.N. Security Council. “Decades of political maneuvering have created a disproportionate number of resolutions, reports and committees against Israel. In many cases, instead of helping the Palestinian issue, this reality has foiled the ability of the U.N. Continue Reading »

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| October 13, 2016
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Israel set to join the executive board of the U.N. agency on women’s rights

 

Israeli envoy to the U.N. says agreement will prevent politicization and delegitimization of Israel in the U.N. Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women.

By Shlomo Cesana

 

Israel is set to join the executive board of the U.N. Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.

Israeli ambassador to U.N. Danny Danon – Facebook

According to Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon, the deal will allow for cooperation between various Israeli government agencies and the U.N. agency for women’s rights, and will pave the way for Israelis to join the ranks of the organization and establish opportunities for further cooperation between U.N. Continue Reading »

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| September 24, 2016
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Quartet harps on Israel’s ongoing settlement activity

 

view videoIsrael’s PM Netanyahu, forced to declare the reality of the conflict: “The real settlements Palestinians are after are Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv.”

By DANIELLE ZIRI

 

NEW YORK – The Middle East Quartet called Israel out on Friday for its ongoing settlement activity, which they said is “an obstacle to peace.”

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Quartet Flags, US, UN, Russia & EU – Photoshopped: IsraelandStuff/PP

Representatives of the Quartet, which include United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, United States Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union Representative Federica Mogherini, met in New York on the last day of the UN General debate. Continue Reading »

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| August 13, 2016
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Special envoy to UN seeks immediate suspension of aid money to Gaza

 

World Council of Independent Christian Churches at the UN: “No church or humanitarian organization should send a single cent to Gaza as long as it is run by a band of murderous terrorist bandits.”

By BENJAMIN GLATT

 

All international humanitarian organizations need to immediately halt all aid money to Gaza until it can be proven that the money isn’t being squandered by Hamas, a leading Christian-Zionist said Wednesday.

Laurie Cardoza-Moore speaking at the United Nations. – Photo :PJTN

“The enemy of the people of Gaza is Hamas, not Israel. Hamas has hijacked the coastal strip and rules over its people with an iron fist. Continue Reading »

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| August 7, 2016
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‘If they see the truth, they won’t fall victims to Palestinian lies’

 

WATCH: Ambassador to the UN Danon explains why Israel’s invitation to 11 foreign ambassadors to visit Israel was so important, claiming now that they’ve see the truth about Israel, they can no longer be deceived easily anymore.

Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon expressed great satisfaction with the visit to Israel he led in which 11 UN ambassadors representing countries from four different continents had the opportunity to observe life in Israel for themselves.

“It was a very effective visit. We managed to show them the chief challenges we’re dealing with in only four days,” Danon told Arutz Sheva. Continue Reading »

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| August 1, 2016
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11 UN ambassadors arrive in Israel for first hand experience

 

11 UN ambassadors arrived in Israel Sunday as part of Israel’s UN Ambassador’s attempt to present the int’l delegates with an Israeli perspective, that would hopefully influence their home countries’ future votes regarding Israel.

By Itamar Eichner

 

The eleven ambassadors representing countries from all over the world, arrived in Israel Sunday at the invitation of Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon, who plans on showing his colleagues an alternative and more complex view of Israel.

Danon’s guests included ambassadors from Uruguay (which serves as the UN Security Council), Thailand, Serbia, Tanzania, Liberia, Bosnia, Panama, Equatorial Guinea, Palau, the Marshall Islands and Moldova. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2016
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Planned UNESCO vote to repudiate Jewish connection with Western Wall

 

A joint Jordanian-Palestinian draft accusing Israel of misconduct on the Temple Mount including deliberate vandalism, will also deny Jewish affinity to the mount and the Western Wall, will be voted on during the annual UNESCO meeting.

By Itamar Eichner

 

The subject of the Jewish connection with the Temple Mount has once again been returned to the UN as Palestinians and Jordanians seek to repudiate Jewish affinity with any part of the compound.

Photo: AP

The draft decision presented by the Palestinians and Jordanians includes a number of problematic points in relation to Israel. Firstly, the draft calls on Israel to return the Temple Mount and the al-Aqsa mosque to “the historic status quo,” a new phrase implying that the sites should be returned to their pre-1967 status.The Continue Reading »

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| June 14, 2016
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History at the United Nations: Israel Elected to Chair Major Legal Committee

 

Despite efforts by Iran, which currently chairs the Non-Aligned Movement, as well as opposition from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which include many member-states hostile to Israel, enough votes were secured on Monday to make history, ensuring Israel’s Ambassador would lead the United Nations Legal Committee.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

On Monday, Israel Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon made history, becoming the first Israeli representative ever chosen to lead a permanent committee at the UN.

Danny Danon – Israel UN Mission

Following months of diplomatic efforts, Danon was elected to lead the United Nations Legal Committee. Continue Reading »

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| June 13, 2016
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Palestinian News Report: Arab League head slams Israel’s nomination to chair UN committee

 

Arab League Secretary General singles out Israel as regularly violating int’l law and should not be eligible as chair of the UN General Assembly 6th Committee.

By i24news

 

Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said Sunday that he rejected the nomination of Israel as chair of the UN General Assembly Sixth Committee, which is the primary forum for the consideration of legal questions in the General Assembly, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported Sunday.

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby – Photo: AFP /YASSER AL-ZAYYAT

Elaraby told representatives of the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) that it was unreasonable for Israel to head the committee, arguing that the country has regularly committed illegal acts, including construction of the border fence, violations of Palestinian human rights, and daily arrest of children and women, as well as the practice of administrative detention. Continue Reading »

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| June 2, 2016
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United Nations Has a Pro-Israel Moment

view videoIsraeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, “Never before have so many people, from so many places, gathered here in the General Assembly to declare unanimous support for the State of Israel.”

By Israel Today Staff

 

“Look around you. This is an historic moment in the UN!”

Those were the words of Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon on Tuesday as he looked out over a packed General Assembly Hall at the start of an event opposing the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

More than 2,000 attended the session, making it one of the rare occasions, if not the only to date, in which the UN General Assembly Hall could be described as a place of pro-Israel sentiment. Continue Reading »

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| May 25, 2016
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Israel reports to UN: Hamas steals 95% of cement sent to Gaza civilians for terror-tunnels

 

view videoAt the UN World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Dr. Dore Gold spoke about Israel’s extensive role in providing humanitarian aid, noting the task is made more complicated when Gaza’s rulers confiscate aid sent to Palestinian civilians then uses it for Hamas’ military agenda.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

Hamas is stealing 95% of the cement transferred into Gaza for the purpose of rebuilding homes so that it can use it for military purposes, Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold said on Tuesday.

“From our own investigations we found that out of every 100 sacks of cement that come into the Gaza Strip [from Israel], only five or six are transferred to civilians,” Gold said as he addressed the UN World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul. Continue Reading »

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| May 23, 2016
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Israel ends private cement embargo into Gaza

Cement shipments ended after Hamas official diverted substantial amount to its military branch, likely used for construction of new attack tunnels into Israel, but resumed this week following new UN agreement to add more int’l monitors in Gaza.

By AFP

 

Israel has lifted the ban imposed last month on private imports of cement to the Gaza Strip, with trucks arriving at the Kerem Shalom crossing on Monday morning to resume the supply to the Palestinian enclave.

Cement coming into the Gaza Strip for the first time in over a month.

“In accordance with the security assessment and the understandings reached with the international community, as of today, Sunday May 22, the re-entry of cement into Gaza has been approved,” said a statement from the government body responsible for implementing policies in the Palestinian territories, COGAT. Continue Reading »

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