BY ORLY AZOULAY, YNET— Hours before his UN General Assembly address, US President Barack Obama sought to ensure that prospective Jewish voters pay close attention to his speech. Three of Obama’s aides held a conference call with the president’s Jewish supporters and community leaders on Wednesday, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. The advisers, all Jewish themselves, asked…
BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Not since the United Nations debate denouncing Zionism as racism has Israel been in the dock as it is this week. On November 10, 1975, then-Israeli ambassador Chaim Herzog ascended the podium in the lion’s den in New York to face a hostile world, much of which sought to deny the…
BY SAMARA GREENBERG, INSIGHT— Focus on the potential showdown between the Palestinian Authority and Israel at the United Nations on Friday has overshadowed another very important UN event: the ten year anniversary of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance first held in 2001 in Durban, South Africa. Since then simply…
BY ELAD BENARI & YONI KEMPINSKI, ARUTZ 7— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s international spokesperson, Mark Regev, gave a briefing to reporters in Jerusalem on Tuesday ahead of the Prime Minister’s visit to New York for the UN General Assembly. Regev pointed out that by going to the United Nations to ask for recognition of a…
BY AMB. JOHN BOLTON, FOX NEWS— The Palestinian Authority (“P.A.”) is proceeding full steam ahead to create “facts on the ground” in the Middle East by working the Manhattan corridors of the United Nations. This is neither the first time, nor undoubtedly the last, that Palestinian leaders have succumbed to the delusion that Middle Eastern…
BY JONATHAN SCHANZER, inFOCUS QUARTERLY– As of early September 2011, the Palestinian Authority (PA), under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, was set to bypass negotiations with Israel and attempt to declare statehood at the United Nations. Many analysts have offered their speculation as to how the Palestinians might use their UN resolution to go after…
BY JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— If the Palestinian Authority genuinely desired international recognition as a sovereign state, Mahmoud Abbas wouldn’t have come to New York to seek membership in the UN General Assembly this week. There would have been no need to, for Palestine would have long since taken its seat in the United Nations.…
Republican presidential hopeful Gov. Rick Perry of Texas takes on President Barack Obama’s policy toward Israel, saying it is ‘arrogant’ and ‘dangerous,’ among other words.
BY REBECCA STOIL AND JPOST STAFF— Both US Republican presidential front-runners slammed US President Barack Obama’s policy on Israel Tuesday morning, days before the expected United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood. Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney blamed Obama for the upcoming UN vote, even though the US delegation was expected…
