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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday he will send a report calling for Israel and the Palestinians to investigate alleged war crimes during last winter's conflict in Gaza to the UN Security Council "as soon as possible."
Power Line (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stephen Hayes invokes Jeane Kirkpatrick's classic 1979 essay in his his Weekly Standard article of the same title on the Obama administration's foreign policy. Hayes updates the the continuing saga of the Obama administration's appeasement of the Islamic Republic of Iran. By contrast with its valentines for the mullahs, as Hayes reports, the administration last week had harsh words...for Fiji. Hayes...
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | yesterday
When I ran the article Obama, the Muslim Thing and why it Matters in December 2007, I was called every ugly name in the book. You name it, I got it. Obama started a website, "Fight the Smears.com" to refute the "smears" (left speak for truth) that a couple of us were exposing. Scroll the pages of my Obama category, Muslim in the White House - first entry January 18, 2007: Barack...
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | yesterday
The recent seizure by Israeli commandos of a weapons cache on board a container ship bound for Syria illustrates yet another way Tehran is rashly disregarding international law. According to UN Security Council Resolution 1747, it is illegal for the international community to export or engage in commerce of weapons with the Islamic Republic. Interestingly [...]
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obama and Islam Thomas Lifson President Obama is playing out a drama on the world stage, addressing Islam as a virtual supplicant, and conceding serious issues, while getting nothing in return. Why? Richard Baehr writes: The President demanded a complete freeze on Israeli settlement building, including in sections of Jerusalem, supposedly in return for some conciliatory gestures by the Palestinians...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Jordan's Ad-Dustour daily: Israel could begin a new military operation in Lebanon in spring 2010.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Human Rights First urges the Obama Administration to take immediate and firm action in response to a new investigative report issued by experts monitoring the United Nations arms embargo on Sudan. The report, released late yesterday, reveals ongoing and systematic abuses against civilians in Darfur and provides detailed evidence of violations of the embargo and related Security Council resolutions...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
U.N. endorses Goldstone report Atul Aneja Israel’s conduct in sharp focusHamas too guilty of war crimesDUBAI: Israel’s military conduct during its winter offensive of Gaza has been brought into sharp focus again by the United Nations General Assembly, which has endorsed the Goldstone report that focuses mainly on alleged Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.The bulk of the investigation...
American Abroad (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Israel has condemned a report approved by the United Nations General Assembly accusing the government of war crimes committed during the Israeli offensive on Gaza. Israel said on Friday that the Goldstone Report lacks support from “the majority of democratic states”. On Thursday the UN approved a resolution calling on Israel and the Palestinians to [...]
Global Security (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Israel has responded angrily to a United Nations resolution that accuses the Jewish state of war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Global Security (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly endorsed a report calling for domestic investigations into alleged war crimes committed during Gaza conflict.
Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
(New York) – Turkey should not allow President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, an accused war criminal, to attend a conference in Istanbul, and should arrest him if he sets foot in Turkey, Human Rights Watch said read more
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Kind of sad when you see a Freshman US Senator get appointed and immediately hijacked by lobbying groups who have deeply parochial interests that run against the nation's and even Senator George LeMieux's own state of Florida. Last night, the...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
[JURIST] The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution giving Israel and Palestine three months to conduct independent investigations into possible war crimes committed during last winter's Gaza conflict. The General Assembly voted 114-18 with 44 abstentions expressing support for the Goldstone Report, the result of a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) fact-finding mission, which accused both...
News Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The World Jewish Congress condemns Thursday's vote by the United Nations General Assembly as being flawed from the start. The vote calls upon both Israel and the Palestinians to conduct "independent and credible" investigations of the alleged war crimes during the Gaza conflict of December 2008 within a period of three months, or the UN will then send the matter to the Security Council....
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