BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS— “Palestinians ponder next step in their statehood bid,” said the Los Angeles Times. “Palestinians will keep knocking on U.N.’s door,” said Reuters. They will go to the Security Council; or they’ll go to the Security Council only if they’ll win; even if they won’t win; now, or maybe later; then to the…
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, the U.N. always seem to bury any chances for significant global progress behind mounds of useless resolutions, and empty rhetoric. Watch this hard hitting, entertaining video that discusses who’s behind the “United” Nations, and setting the global example of “human rights” and “security”.
BY BARRY RUBIN, PAJAMAS MEDIA— In a speech, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asks: “Why does America promote democracy one way in some countries and another way in others?” Here’s how the question should be rephrased: Why does America subvert the chances for democracy one way in some countries and another way in others? Here’s…
BY JPOST STAFF— Israel has reached its lowest poverty levels since 2003, according to the 2010 Israeli Poverty Report released on Thursday, but still faces significant problems in wealth disparity and impoverished children. According to the report, 20 percent of Israeli families – some 1.7 million people – live in poverty. Among them are 873,000…
BY THE DAILY BEAST— For much of the last decade, as Iran methodically built its nuclear program, Israel has been assembling a multibillion-dollar array of high-tech weapons that would allow it to jam, blind, and deafen Tehran’s defenses in the case of a pre-emptive aerial strike. A U.S. intelligence assessment this summer, described to The…
BY REUTERS— An Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites may become likelier in 2012 if Israel calculates it has more room to act alone in a U.S. presidential election year, a former U.S. official and nuclear diplomacy expert said. Mark Fitzpatrick, an Iran watcher at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, told Reuters the latest…