To Right A Wrong, Second Edition: The Revocation of UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 Defaming Zionism
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Courtesy of Norman Finkelstein ANNEX IV Vote on Peaceful Settlement The draft resolution on Peaceful Settlement (document A/64/L.23) was adopted by a recorded vote of 164 in favour to 7 against, with 4 abstentions, as follows: In favour: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin,...
Hodges' Model: Welcome to the Quad (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Please assist if you can.... Dear GANM Colleagues, The Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) ( www.nightingaledeclaration.net ) team invites you to join with us to ask the 2009 UN General Assembly to consider the UN Resolution proposal (see below) as they will be voting until the end of December 2009. Currently the NIGH team is working in and around the United Nations in New York City...
CNSNews (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Iran was reprimanded last week by the U.N. atomic agency for its nuclear activities, and criticized last month by a General Assembly committee for post-election human rights abuses, but the Islamic republic is far from isolated at the world body.
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
On Jan. 1, 2010, Hezbollah and its de-facto ruler Iran could have a direct line to the Security Council and gain access to all the confidential information to which Security Council members are privy. In October the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly voted for Lebanon to be the Asian bloc's new non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for a 2-year term. Earlier today the...
Chicagoray (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Sure wouldn't wanna offend the Muslim despots that make up a good portion the Jew Hating UN now would we? I hate this organization with a passion, as who the hell voted these people to be in charge of anything anywhere? Not me or you, that's for damn sure and I'll be damned if they tell me how to think or what to do. And were I the Swiss I would tell this UN General to go buy himself a Muslim made...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the UK Guardian :- Luxembourg's foreign minister, Jean Asselborn, told reporters: "I don't really understand why Israel does not accept that Palestine consists of the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem. The Israelis have a right to live in Israel; the Palestinians have a right to live in Palestine." That's him: Some other words of his: Le secteur oriental de Jérusalem " n'appartient...
Overview Petitions (Free subscription) | yesterday
December 2009 Dear President of the European Union Council, Given the close relationship between the European Union and Morocco, from which this African country benefits greatly, you have the possibility and the duty to act in favour of the application of UN resolutions and international law regarding the basic rights of the people of the Western Sahara in order to decide their future, which...
Middle East and Other Musings (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... makers recognized Israel's need for defensible borders and, in November 1967, they supported U.N. Resolution 242, which called for withdrawals from "territories" captured in the war, but not from "all the territories" or even "the territories." All successive Israeli governments supported the settlements. Only with the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords...
Transition Indiana (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... Morocco currently occupies Western Sahara and its massive phosphate rock reserves, contrary to UN resolutions. – Western Sahara Resource Watch From the Times Online : Battered by soaring fertiliser prices and rioting rice farmers, the global food industry may also have to deal with a potentially catastrophic future shortage of phosphorus, scientists say. Researchers in Australia, Europe...
Permaculture & Regenerative Design News (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... Morocco currently occupies Western Sahara and its massive phosphate rock reserves, contrary to UN resolutions. – Western Sahara Resource Watch From the Times Online : Battered by soaring fertiliser prices and rioting rice farmers, the global food industry may also have to deal with a potentially catastrophic future shortage of phosphorus, scientists say. Researchers in Australia, Europe...
The Gardeners' World (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... Morocco currently occupies Western Sahara and its massive phosphate rock reserves, contrary to UN resolutions. – Western Sahara Resource Watch From the Times Online : Battered by soaring fertiliser prices and rioting rice farmers, the global food industry may also have to deal with a potentially catastrophic future shortage of phosphorus, scientists say. Researchers in Australia, Europe...
Samson Blinded (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Palestinian Arabs achieved the 1947 UN partition through revolt. Together with Jewish fighters, they expelled the British. Israel talks to the Palestinians and accedes to their demands of statehood only because of the Arab terrorists. The 1947 partition was generous to the Palestinian Arabs: they lost to Jews only a tiny strip near the Golan Heights, [...]
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
"But she raised the ire of some Jewish leaders with just one vote -- her decision to vote "present" on a resolution last January during the Gaza war which backed Israel's right to defend itself and reaffirmed U.S. support for the Jewish state, while also encouraging a "sustainable" cease-fire in Gaza. (Edwards said she voted present because she didn't feel it was appropriate...
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... to Tony Blair about the legality of military action. Walters responded: Goldsmith never believed UN Res 1441 was a basis for war. In the 'summary' of his legal advice to Blair on March 17, 2003, he merely said 1441 was 'capable' of being used as a basis for war. And that was through gritted teeth after being 'pinned against the wall' by Falconer and Morgan on March 13. When his full legal advice...
GrogNews (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... Iraq inquiry that American officials were equally sceptical about British demands for a second UN resolution. "No matter how many times you said to senior American offices and indeed to Mr Rumsfeld we were not committing our forces until we'd been through the proper UN process, and in the latter days had been through parliament as well, there was a complete reluctance to believe that,"...
