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."
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said late Friday that he would soon transmit to the Security Council a controversial report alleging that Israel and the Palestinians committed war crimes during the Gaza war nearly a year ago. "As requested by the General Assembly, I will transmit the
New York, NY – An Arab-backed resolution endorsing the Goldstone report on the Israel-Hamas fighting in the Gaza Strip was adopted with a 114-18 vote by the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was requested to send the resolution to the Security Council for action, a demand rejected previously by the [...]
New York - An Arab-backed resolution endorsing the Goldstone report on the Israel-Hamas fighting in the Gaza Strip was adopted with a 114-18 vote by the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. UN Sec...
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...
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...
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 [...]
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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...
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...
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...
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 [...]
(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
China's three-ship fleet of battle-ready warships set out Friday, December 26 from the port at Sanya, on Hainan Island, carrying a total crew of about 800, including 70 soldiers form the Navy's special force, on their way to join the multi-national patrolling of the Gulf of Aden and waters off the coast of Somalia. The fleet consists of the supply ship Weishanhu, and two destroyers - the DDG-169 Wuhan...