Foreign Policy Luminaries Urge Obama to Support UNSC Settlements Resolution
As the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) moves to consider a resolution condemning continued Israeli settlement activity in the Palestinian occupied territories, a group of prominent foreign...
View ArticleAIPAC Bills Opposing Palestinian Statehood Drive Sail Through House And Senate
The Senate passed a resolution last week threatening repercussions if the Palestinians press on with their bid for statehood. A similar House of Representatives resolution passed this week. The two...
View ArticleRos-Lehtinen Wants To Break U.S. Laws On Hosting The U.N.
Reposted by arrangement with Think Progress In a statement released yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) called for the U.S. to violate its own laws and...
View ArticleU.N. Defends Increased Use of Private Military and Security Companies
Last month, I wrote on a new report that showed the U.N. is increasingly using Private Military Security Contractors (PMSCs) for its field missions – a practice which is endangering the U.N.’s...
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Will Iran be the United States’ Melos?
via Lobe Log One of the most depressing aspects of all the talk about Israel or the United States destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities (and much else besides, no doubt) is the near absence of any...
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The Strategic Logic of Netanyahu’s “Iranian Bomb”: Rules of the Road (Runner?)
via Lobe Log In making his case against Iran in his United Nations speech, Benjamin Netanyahu held up a crude graphic intended represent an Iranian bomb. The Israeli Prime Minister drew a line with a...
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Meanwhile in Iran
via Lobe Log This lonely press briefing issued today by the United Nations about ongoing political imprisonment in Iran reminds us that the more the international community focuses on Iran’s nuclear...
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Israel, UK and US fail to get Palestinians to Withdraw or Blunt UN Resolution
via Lobe Log The vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the Palestinian application for non-member status is a foregone conclusion. They’re going to win and it’s not really going to matter...
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AIPAC Directs Congressional Punishment of Palestinians After UN Vote
via Lobe Log The US government has swept into action in the aftermath of the Palestinians’ overwhelming victory at the United Nations on Thursday. No less than three amendments were brought in the...
View ArticleSusan Rice at the NSC
by Robert E. Hunter Turnover in top US foreign policy and national security jobs can often be a “good thing” — for the nation and the world. New brooms at least start out with a different look at the...
View ArticleSyria Debate Throws Pro-Israel Groups For A Loss
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick Syria’s declaration that it would accept a Russian proposal to hand over its chemical weapons to an international body was the latest in a string of surprises around...
View ArticleA Threat To Israel? Palestinians Apply To Human Rights Conventions
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick In an earlier article I discussed the apoplectic reaction by the United States to the Palestinian decision to send letters of accession to fifteen international...
View ArticleU.N. Makes Development Data Open & Interactive
Every person in the world now has the opportunity to speak up at the United Nations, and already 1.8 million people have submitted their messages. In an attempt to engage with the world’s population,...
View ArticleUS Backing Israeli War of Choice In Gaza
by Mitchell Plitnick The moral high ground is always a tenuous piece of property. It is difficult to obtain and is easily lost. It is seen, however, as crucial because most people, all over the world,...
View ArticleIsrael-Palestine: Correcting Some Faulty Ideas
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick Like many of us, I’ve been very busy on social media since Israel began its military operation in Gaza. I see a lot of ignorant nonsense there, and it’s not limited to...
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