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| June 24, 2014
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Islamic organization strong-arm Australia over East Jerusalem terminology

OIC urges its 57 Islamic ambassadors to Australia to strenuously condemn Canberra’s description of East Jerusalem as ‘disputed’ instead of ‘occupied.’

 

SYDNEY – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has strongly condemned Australia for refusing to refer to East Jerusalem as “occupied,” and urged its 57 member states to take “necessary measures” against Canberra’s “illegal position,” leaving open the possibility of a trade boycott.

Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Has he softened the Australian government’s stance on East Jerusalem? – Photo: AP

The OIC’s Council of Foreign Ministers, which met late last week in Saudi Arabia, blasted “the orientation of the Australian government not to describe the city as occupied.”

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| June 24, 2014
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No Israeli Condemnation from UN Security Council on Palestinian deaths

Security Council members were unable to agree on the wording of a resolution after disputing the strength of language & mentioning Israel specifically.

By Edith M. Lederer

 

AP – The UN Security Council has failed to agree on a statement that would have deplored the deaths of Palestinians in Israeli operations following the disappearance of three Israeli teenagers.

UN Security Council

The UN Security Council. – Photo: AP

Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the current council president, told reporters he proposed the press statement after listening to a Palestinian appeal for council action, but one council member wanted stronger language and one didn’t want any reference to Israel.

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| June 23, 2014
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10 Syrian Soldiers Killed in Israel’s Retaliatory Airstrikes

Damascus moaning over Jerusalem’s response to the spillover, after IDF retaliatory measures for explosion in Golan Heights leave 10 soldiers dead.

By Tova Dvorin

 

At least 10 Syrian soldiers were killed in Israeli overnight air raids on positions near the Golan Heights, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) monitoring group said on Monday.

IDF patrol in Golan Heights

IDF patrol in Golan Heights – Reuters

“At least 10 Syrian soldiers were killed in Israeli raids against military positions [near the Golan – ed.],” SOHR said Monday. “Nine missiles were fired by aircraft and at least two tanks and two artillery batteries were destroyed.”

On Sunday, Syrian soldiers fired a mortar shell or other explosive into the Golan, killing a 15 year-old boy and seriously injuring several Israelis, including a civilian subcontractor for the Ministry of Defense. Continue Reading »

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| June 21, 2014
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Report: Israel FM moves to expel UN envoy for attempts to aid & abet Hamas

If FM Liberman has his way, the UN’s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process Robert Serry, will be declared persona non grata by the Israeli gov’t.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman is intent on expelling the United Nations special envoy to the Middle East, Robert Serry, after authorities learned that he sought to transfer tens of millions of dollars in aid to Hamas, Channel 2 reported on Saturday.

Avigdor Lieberman.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman – Photo: Olivier Fitoussi

If Liberman has his way, Serry, the Dutch diplomat whose official title is United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, will be declared by the Israeli government as persona non grata. Continue Reading »

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| June 20, 2014
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Amb. Dr. Alan Baker to UN: PA in Violation Of Int’l Treaties – Revoke Observer Status Over Abduction

Israel’s former Ambassador Dr. Alan Baker: The UN’s legitimization of the Palestinians violates the Oslo Accords according to every criteria set forth by the International Criminal Court.

By Tova Dvorin, Ido Ben-Porat

 

Former Israeli Ambassador to Canada Dr. Alan Baker, the head of the Legal Forum for Israel, has formally requested that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon revoke the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) observer status Friday, in light of their unity with Hamas.

“The tragic abduction and imprisonment of three young Israelis by a terrorist organization, attached to what you call the ‘State of Palestine’ and now considered a state observer at the UN, is a gross violation of humanitarian norms and conventions,” Baker wrote. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2014
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Israeli autistic children display their artwork at the United Nations

 

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prossor: We are proud to raise awareness “about disabilities in general and autism in particular”

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

Alut — the Israeli Society for Autistic Children — and the Israeli delegation to the United Nations hosted on Tuesday an exhibit of artwork by autistic Israeli children.

One of the paintings on display

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prossor and El Al captain Dubi Ofer — the father of autistic twins — also participated.

“We are proud that year after year, we are promoting worldwide awareness about disabilities in general and autism in particular,” Prossor said.

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| June 11, 2014
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Postponed ‘Jews in Israel’ exhibit to finally open at UNESCO

The Jewish people’s narrative finally to be displayed: A 3.5 millennia relationship to the Holy Land, and that’s the narrative that the Arab League didn’t want the world to know about.

By JTA

 

An exhibition on the Jewish presence in the land of Israel that had been canceled due to pressure from Arab states will open at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

The exhibit at UNESCO headquarters in Paris just needed to be installed – Jan.2014

“Book, People, Land — The 3,500-Year Relationship of the Jewish People With the Holy Land,” a joint exhibition of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the cultural arm of the United Nations, will open Wednesday.

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| May 19, 2014
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UN to evaluate UNWRA’s definition & exploitation of Palestinian refugees

 

American Association of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists says UNRWA’s mandate directs the UN to prevent the resettlement of Palestinians, and artificially inflates their numbers by including descendants of original Palestinian refugees from Israel’s 1948 War of Independence.

By Shlomo Cesana

 

The United Nations is scheduled on Monday to discuss revisions to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The discussion will focus, among other things, on an initiative by the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists which calls for reforming the manner in which a Palestinian refugee is defined.

A Palestinian girl at an UNRWA school [Archive] – Photo: Reuters

The association’s goal is to fundamentally change the objectives of UNRWA’s activities.

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| May 7, 2014
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UN Watch: UN appointment is ‘crass nepotism, in flagrant breach of council rules’

 

The NGO, UN Watch, terms controversial UN appointment of the wife of outgoing & overtly antisemitic UN monitor Richard Falk, ‘crass nepotism’ that will “harm the cause of human rights… and undermine the interests of the United States.”

By i24news

 

An NGO has issued a call for the US ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power to block the appointment of Turkey’s Hilal Elvar as the new Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Elvar is the wife of outgoing UN monitor for the West Bank and Gaza, Richard Falk. The vote on her appointment is scheduled for Thursday.

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| April 30, 2014
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Israel’s U.N. Ambassador: The Palestinian pattern, 1st Demand then Delay, then Desert

 

Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N.Ron Prosor criticizes European funding to Abbas’ PA, saying: “I wonder how taxpayers in London, Luxembourg and Paris would feel knowing that they will enable Hamas to launch more rockets into Israel.”

By Daniel Siryoti, Shlomo Cesana, Yoni Hirsch & news agencies

 

“When I think about the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, there is a predictable pattern on the part of the Palestinians — demand, delay and desert,” Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor told the Security Council on Tuesday, the same day that the nine-month period allotted for the latest round of peace talks elapsed.

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| April 11, 2014
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Switzerland registers ‘State of Palestine’ as Signatory of Geneva Conventions

In Abbas’ latest move to gain legitimacy, Switzerland agreed to sign ‘Palestine’s’ request on to the Geneva Conventions.

By AFP and Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has signed up formally to the Geneva Conventions, which set down the rules of warfare and humanitarian operations in conflict zones, the treaties’ guardian Switzerland confirmed Friday.

Mahmoud Abbas – Reuters

Swiss foreign ministry spokesman Pierre-Alain Eltschinger told AFP that the PA had declared itself party to the conventions on April 2. The PA was registered formally by Switzerland on Thursday, he added.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas unilaterally applied to join 15 international conventions and treaties late last week. Continue Reading »

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| April 11, 2014
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Anti-Semitic Libels Promoted in New UN Report by Under-Secretary-General

 

Newly appointed UN shamelessly promotes the most vile anti-Semitic blood libels about Israel.

By David Lazarus

 

The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), which was established to aid development in the Arab world, has published a new report targeting a nation that does not fall under its jurisdiction – Israel. Nevertheless, this official UN agency, which received over 88 million dollars in allocations last year, has a lot to say about the Jewish state.

New UN Report Promotes Anti-Semitic Libels

Rima Khalaf, a national of Jordan, was appointed as Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia ESCWA by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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| April 11, 2014
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Fleeing Palestinians from Syria seek refugee status in Thailand

 

A year after hundreds of Palestinians fled Syria for Thailand, the UNHCR has yet to grant refugee status. Too busy investigating Israel, perhaps?

By DPA

 

 

Dozens of Palestinians stranded in Thailand after fleeing war-torn Syria a year ago on Thursday petitioned the United Nations to speed up the process of granting them refugee status.

Civilians clean a street from rubble of damaged buildings at the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk

Civilians clean a street from rubble of damaged buildings at the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, south of Damascus, February 12, 2014. – Photo: Reuters

The Palestinian petitioners, most of them children, gathered outside the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Bangkok in a bid to draw attention to their increasingly desperate plight in the kingdom.

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| April 11, 2014
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Ramallah Gloats: ‘State of Palestine’ accepted into UN conventions & agreements

Palestinian ‘foreign ministry’ having been accepted into UN convention will herald in ‘right of return’ for ‘refugees’.

By Dalit Halevy

 

The Palestinian Authority’s “foreign ministry” announced Thursday that it had received a message from the UN Secretary General confirming the acceptance of the “State of Palestine” into the conventions and agreements signed early April by Mahmoud Abbas, “the President of the State of Palestine.”

The acceptance of the “State of Palestine” is immediately valid in the following treaties: the UN Convention against Torture; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racist Discrimination; the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child that deals with the involvement of children in armed conflicts. Continue Reading »

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| April 10, 2014
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UN’s Under Sec-Gen Rima Khalaf, Promotes & Advances Antisemitism

Trying to halt the UN’s promotion of antisemitism, Israel’s envoy to the United Nations, Ron Prosor sends his second letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to address the latest example.

By Israel and Stuff

 

Below is the second letter addressed to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the subject of UN’s official propagation of myths, revisionist history, and antisemitism.

Ron Prosor

At the UNITED NATIONS — Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor – Photo: Shahar Azran

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