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| July 17, 2015
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Obama Sets Israel Up to “Perils of Isolation” in UN Over Nuke Deal

UNSC set to adopt Iran JCPOA resolution in quick ‘Blitzkrieg’ vote under a procedure that will expose Israel to isolation should Jerusalem speak out against dangerous Iran deal.

By Mark Langfan, A7 UN Reporter

 

In a diplomatic blitzkrieg, the Obama Administration has set this coming Monday at 9 a.m. EST for a vote at the UN Security Council (UNSC) in New York on the adoption of the Iran nuclear deal, which was announced by the world’s leading powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran in Vienna on Tuesday.

US President Barack Obama addresses the 69th UN General Assembly – Photo: Reuters

A terse announcement by the New Zealand delegation which assumed the monthly rotating UNSC’s Presidency for July revealed the vote session.
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| July 11, 2015
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India Balks at Palestinian Threats When Not Following Blindly Against Israel

After New Delhi abstained twice over the last few weeks at the UN, the Palestinians are angry they can no longer count on India for every biased & cynical UN resolution they want passed against the Jewish State.

By HERB KEINON

 

India’s left-wing, influential Hindu newspaper ran a story in December under the headline “India may end support to Palestine at UN.” The over-line to the headline read: “Major shift in foreign policy.”

Narendra Modi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. – Photo: REUTERS

“In what could amount to a tectonic shift in the country’s foreign policy, the Modi government is looking at altering India’s supporting vote for the Palestinian cause at the United Nations to one of abstention,” the story read, referring to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was elected in May 2014.

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| June 23, 2015
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Jerusalem initiates diplomatic steps against anti-Israel Arab majority at UNHRC

UNGA likely to accept biased report on Gaza war, sparking Israeli diplomatic mission to reduce the power of Arab majority voting bloc inside the UN’s human rights council.

By Itamar Eichner, Aviel Magnezi

 

A new diplomatic front has been launched in Israel, meant to do away with the automatic Arab majority in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in light of an impending council vote regarding whether or not to adopt as official the findings of a UN report released Monday on 2014’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.

UN REPORTThe report heard round the world. (Photo: AFP)

The report was ill-received in Israel, where officials said that the UNHRC is inherently slanted against Israel. Continue Reading »

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| June 23, 2015
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UNHRC obsession with Israel keeps it busy doing everything but care for human rights

view videoIsrael’s Foreign Ministry condemns UN report on Protective Edge, saying IDF conducted itself to ‘highest standards’ according to numerous unbiased int’l legal & military experts. (WATCH VIDEO CLIPS)

By Moran Azulay, Itamar Eichner

 

Israel’s Foreign Ministry published a harsh response to the UN Human Rights Council’s report on 2014’s Operation Protective Edge on Monday, calling the UNHRC “a notoriously biased institution” that “has a singular obsession with Israel.”

UN investigator Mary McGowan Davis. – Photo: AFP

 

The report released just prior to Israel’s statement harshly accused Israel of continuing its policy of airstrikes despite the resulting death if Gaza and suggested that Hamas had made efforts to warn Israeli civilians of impending rocket attacks. Continue Reading »

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| June 21, 2015
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Israel Rips At Absurd, Bias UN Report That Ignored Islamic Massacres to Target Israel

WATCH as Israeli envoy exposes UN anti-Israel agenda, ignoring thousands of children murdered in Islamic wars in Africa & the Mid-East, but focusing mostly on ….guess who?

By Mark Langfan

 

Israel’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, David Roet, lambasted a UN report on children in warfare Thursday, noting that in the context of numerous Islamic wars where thousands of children were murdered this year alone, “it is simply absurd that this report disproportionately focuses on Israel.”

The diplomat spoke at a UN Security Council open debate on a report titled “Children and Armed Conflict.”

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| June 18, 2015
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Hypocrite Ban Bashes Israel Ignores Hamas For Making Gaza Children ‘Suffer’

UN chief demands Israel take steps in protecting the children of Gaza, but fails to mention Hamas exploiting civilian shields & terrorist embedding themselves in hospitals & UN schools in their attacks against unarmed Israeli civilians.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon attacked Israel on Thursday, saying it needed to do more to protect the lives of Palestinian Arab children during counter-terror operations in Gaza – even as international law experts say Israel is warning Gazans too much and harming the ability of Western democracies to combat terror.

Ban Ki-Moon

Ban Ki-Moon – Reuters

“Last year was one of the worst in recent memory for children in countries affected by conflict,” the UN leader said, adding he is “deeply alarmed at the suffering of so many children as a result of Israeli military operations in Gaza last year.”

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| June 8, 2015
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UN’s Ban slams the IDF but leaves Israel & Hamas off children’s rights blacklist

United Nations chief condemns Israel over IDF’s impact on Gaza’s children of last summer’s Operation Protective Edge but doesn’t mention how Hamas “obstruct humanitarian aid, fire from civilian population centers and use innocents as human shields.”

By TOVAH LAZAROFF, REUTERS

 

Israel on Monday welcomed a United Nations decision not to place Israel on a black list that included organizations such as ISIS, but criticized it for going easy on Hamas.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – Photo: REUTERS

UN special envoy for children and armed conflict, Leila Zerrougui of Algeria, had placed the IDF and the terrorist organization Hamas on a blacklist of states and armed groups that violate children’s rights during conflicts. Continue Reading »

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| June 2, 2015
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At the UN’s ‘Theater of the Absurd’: Hamas-linked group granted NGO status

Israel’s mission accuses the United Nations of accepting the nefarious PRC organization, describing it as the ‘organizational & a coordinating wing of Hamas in Europe’.

By Reuters

 

Israel on Monday accused the United Nations of granting “UN non-governmental organization status” to an association linked to militant Palestinian group Hamas that it said promotes “anti-Israel propaganda in Europe.”

Israel’s UN mission issued a statement condemning the decision, by the 19-member UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, to approve the application of the Palestinian Return Center (PRC), an organization based in Britain.

Israeli UN ambassador Ron Prosor addressing colleagues (Photo: AFP)
Israeli UN ambassador Ron Prosor addressing colleagues – Photo: AFP

 

The statement said that in 2010 Israel banned the PRC because of its ties to Hamas, labeling it “an organizational and a coordinating wing of Hamas in Europe” with members that include senior Hamas officials. Continue Reading »

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| May 25, 2015
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Diplomatic Disaster Averted by Israel’s Cooperation With Nuclear Ban Treaty Diplomats

In a dramatic show of support for Israel at the UN nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty conference last week, the US vetoed an Egyptian-led drive for a Mid-East nuclear weapons ban.

By YAAKOV LAPPI

 

Israel’s ongoing cooperation with diplomats involved in efforts to set up a regional dialogue over weapons of mass destruction helped it avoid a bad outcome during a UN conference last week, an arms control expert said on Monday.

A nuclear test explosion from April 1954 is shown in this undated photo from the US Defense Department – Photo: REUTERS

In recent days, the US vetoed an Egyptian-led drive on a possible Middle East nuclear weapons ban at a UN nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) conference. Continue Reading »

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| May 1, 2015
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Britain warns UN: US ignoring ‘Iran’s active nuclear procurement network’

UN suggests US administration silence on Iranian violations is to not undermine ongoing talks.
• Speculation of the White House’s silence about Iran’s active nuclear procurement network is “further proof that a skeptical Congress must have a voice,” echoing Netanyahu’s warnings that Iran can not be trusted.

By News Agencies & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Britain has informed a United Nations sanctions panel of an active Iranian nuclear procurement network linked to two blacklisted firms, according to a confidential report by the panel seen by Reuters.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses the 2015 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, in the United Nations on Monday – Photo: AP

The existence of such a network could add to Western concerns over whether Tehran can be trusted to adhere to a nuclear deal due by June 30 in which it would agree to restrict sensitive nuclear work in exchange for sanctions relief. Continue Reading »

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| April 7, 2015
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100 Delegates, including from Muslim world to hold UN nuclear conference in Israel

About 100 international representatives will convene in Israel next week for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization conference.

By YOSSI MELMAN

 

Israel will be host to an important and highly-prestigious UN-sponsored international conference on the ban of nuclear tests next week, drawing representatives from Arab and Muslim countries which do not currently have diplomatic relations with Israel. Jordanian and Egyptian delegates will also attend the conference.

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Arab leaders meet at an Arab League meeting. – Photo: REUTERS

Around 100 representatives will take part in the meeting organized by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), headquartered in Vienna, Austria. To ensure the safety of the participants, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued safety and travel assurances. Continue Reading »

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| March 30, 2015
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Israeli envoy: UN ignores intimidation, exile and murder of Christians in Arab countries

Ron Prosor to U.N:  Palestinians seek a state without negotiations, without compromise, & without a peace deal; Over 50% of Christians fled both Hamas & PA rule in Gaza AND the West Bank.

By Yoni Hersch

 

The international community is turning a blind eye to the murder of minorities in the Arab world, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor said this weekend.

Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor – Photo: AP

“Last year police in Saudi Arabia stormed a Christian prayer meeting and arrested its entire congregation, including women and children. … In 2013, three Iranian Christians were caught selling Bibles, found guilty of ‘crimes against state security,’ and sentenced to 10 years in prison.” Continue Reading »

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| February 19, 2015
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UN Pressures Donors Countries to Make Good on Aid Pledged to Gaza

UN official warns the Security Council that if promised cash is given to Hamas, there may be more violence coming out of Gaza.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The failure by world donors to deliver billions of dollars of aid to rebuild Gaza is jeopardizing efforts to avoid a new flareup in the Palestinian territory, a senior United Nations official warned Wednesday.

UN political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman told the Security Council that donors who had promised $5.4 billion to the Palestinians at the Cairo conference four months ago “have yet to fulfill the vast majority of their pledges,” according to AFP. 

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| February 3, 2015
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NGO Monitor: Time the UN Should Investigate its Own Incompetence and Bias

With United Nation’s constant revelations of ‘incompetence & bias’ on display in the world’s media, Israelis demand the world body take a good look in the mirror.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Following the revelation that the appointed head of the UN commission of inquiring into last summer’s Gaza war had previous associations with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Jerusalem-based research institute NGO Monitor suggested that the world body investigate its own ineptitude and overriding prejudice against the Jewish state.

“The United Nations should suspend its investigation into Israel and immediately investigate the disturbing revelations of its own incompetence and bias,” read a press release by NGO Monitor.

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| January 30, 2015
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Lebanon to lodge complaint at UN over Israel’s retaliatory shelling

Officials distance the government from Hezbollah’s actions, explaining ‘what Hezbollah declares or does only represents itself as a political party, and they do not represent the Lebanese gov’t’.

By Ynetnews

 

Lebanon will lodge a complaint with the United Nations against Israel over recent IDF border shelling in response to a deadly Hezbollah ambush that killed 2 soldiers, Lebanese paper The Daily Star reported on Friday.

IDF shelling south Lebanon – Photo: Reuters

Two IDF soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded in the Wednesday attack, when Hezbollah launched an anti-tank missile at an IDF convoy traveling near the Israe-Lebanon border. Continue Reading »

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