Victims of terror attack in Paris kosher market named
Kerry defends Israel before UN rights panel. 3:20 pm. Kerry warns Netanyahu against revealing Iran talks details. 3:08 pm. Live updates: Yair Lapid keeps mum on preferred choice for PM. 2:38 pm. Hebrew media review: Drumroll to Netanyahus speeches.
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8/11/2014 ��� BETHLEHEM (Maan) ��� A rights group Monday condemned an Israeli drone attack on Gaza that killed a Palestinian worker for a human rights organization the day before, a statement said.. 8/11/2014 ��� NEW YORK (Maan) ��� The UN Human Rights Council has appointed a three-member panel to investigate allegations of humanitarian law violations during Israels Gaza assault, reports said Monday.. Kerry Issues Warning to Iraqi Leader New York��.
Netanyahu Fires Ministers and Calls for Elections
With the firings, the occasional quarreling and simmering tensions that have characterized the 20-month-old coalition government broke into an all-out shouting match, as Mr. Netanyahu, seeking to move the nation toward the right, used harsh language to.
ICC Only Option Left for Palestine
With the peace process dead and their UN resolution defeated, Palestinians have turned to the ICC as their only remaining viable option for attempting to secure their rights and hold Israel accountable for its continued denial of those rights. The.
Kerrys concerns, dead Israelis, and moral decrepitude.
���Its very difficult in these situations,��� Kerry said, repeating that the United States supports Israels right to defend itself.. Maybe, eventually, Obama, Kerry, the New York Times, and a large slice of the Democrat establishment will have enough dead Israelis to convince them that they have been support a monstrous regime led, unsurprisingly,. Since the UN Human Rights Council convened in 2006, 49.5% of all recommended resolutions were levied against Israel.
Israels adventures in UN-Wonderland | Annes Opinions
Lets add to this stinking pile the composition of the hastily gathered panel tasked with investigating Israels already-determined war crimes, and you get a witch-hunt worthy of the worst of the Salem trials... Before the emergency session ended, Navi Pillay, the South African UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who has her own office in New York, but supervises the Geneva-based UNHRC, warned the world that Israel may have committed war crimes by not��.
Joint Declaration by International Law Experts on Israels Gaza
As international and criminal law scholars, human rights defenders, legal experts and individuals who firmly believe in the rule of law and in the necessity for its respect in times of peace and more so in times of war, we feel the intellectual.. Israeli has been committing war crimes for years and again the UN cries war crimes, we all know this what we want to know is when will something actually be done before there is no Palestine obviously what Israel is aiming to��.
Kerry Defends Israel Before UN Human Rights Panel
GENEVA ��� Secretary of State John Kerry came to the defense of Israel before a United Nations human rights body on Monday, saying that the ���unbalanced focus��� on Israel was undermining the organizations credibility. ���It must be said that the H.R.C.s .
APN Legislative Round-Up for the Week Ending September.
Kerry Defends Foreign Aid 6. Odds and Ends. 1. Bills, Resolutions and Letters (Cut FMF to countries that support the Palestinians) HR 2893: Introduced 9/12/11 by Reps. Israel (D-NY), Brady (D-PA), Engel (D-NY), and Rothman. So all of those in this body who want to make sure Israel gets the right message at a time of need, please vote against this amendment because it will hurt our relationship... VOA 9/14/11: Congressional Panel Reexamines Aid to Palestinians 3.
John Kerry To Go To Cairo To Push Israel, Hamas Ceasefire
More than 430 Palestinians and 20 Israelis have been killed in that time.. Both Obama and Kerry said Israel has a right to defend itself against frequent rocket attacks by Hamas from the Gaza Strip. Kerry.. Prior to the attacks, a senior official for Hamas said the militant groups would not extend the cease-fire.. Jordans new U.N. Ambassador Dina Kawar said the draft resolution was submitted to the Security Council on Tuesday in a form that could be put to a vote.
Senators Rip Obamas Flexible Interpretation Of UN Drug Controls
The senators, in letters last week to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State John Kerry first reported by Tom Angell at Marijuana.com, write that the Obama administrations loosening of federal law enforcement to allow states to legalize.
Q. and A. on Palestinian Statehood
There is a customary legal definition of a state and its rights and duties, detailed most notably in a 1933 treaty called the Montevideo Convention and in a 1991 report by a European Union panel, the Badinter Commission. Asserting that an entity is a.
UN begins review of peacekeepers amid criticism
Mideast Israel UN peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, also known as UNDOF, observe Syrias Quneitra province at an observation point on Mount Bental in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, overlooking the border with.
Abbas Is Seen as Ready to Seek Pact on His Own
Instead he will call for an international conference or United Nations resolution demanding a deadline to end Israels occupation of Palestinian territory. As leverage, Mr. Abbas would finally join the International Criminal Court and other.
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The UNs new report cites a World Bank study calling on rich countries to provide climate aid of as much $100 billion per year. But according to The New York Times, the $100 billion figure was removed from an executive��.
My sons killer is inhuman, says slain Arab mans father
He didnt hold a knife in his hand, and also didnt yell Allahu Akbar before he knocked on the window of the police car. The death of my son is connected to the entire Arab sector, and not just to the village. Whoever did this act is not human. The.
Israel pressures to make Gaza into Ramallah and.
At the same time, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is moving forward with investigating a litany of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity conducted by Israel during the 38-day offensive in Gaza.. Steve Israel told the New York Post that during his joint meeting with Netanyahu in Israel last week along with seven other congressmen the Prime Minister asked for congressional support in pushing back Palestinian attempts to take Israel to��.
Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: 10/25 Links: Something Is.
Israel expresses its deepest condolences to the family of a US citizen (Zale Thompson) who was killed by the US Police Forces during clashes in New York on October 24.. as well as with Samantha Power, the US Ambassador to the UN, his requests to meet with other top officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, and the National Security Adviser Susan Rice, were turned down.. UN Watch: UN reviews Israels human right record.
US Ambassador Chris Stevens : Al Qaeda came ,saw and.
Right on the Pic : Stevens suffering the same Faith.. Gerald Celente: Criminal Banksters Launching New World War ���... ENENews; US Govt: Radioactive material from reactors is 2 billion times more toxic than industrial poisons ��� Harm caused by nuclear disaster ���greater than for any work of man��� other than atomic bomb ��� Top Expert: Radiation ���like explosions going off in.. Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press; Kerry defends Israel before UN rights panel.
News Roundup and Notes: February 25, 2015
Secretary of State John Kerry sought to rebut critics of a potential nuclear accord with Iran, only a week before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver his planned Congressional address against the emerging deal. [New York Times.
Discourse and Destruction
Consider this passage from a New York Times profile of Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who cold-bloodedly murdered two New York City policemen in Brooklyn last month:. The right-wing atrocity Krugman was anxiously awaiting has yet to occur four years later.
UN Watchdog Questions Appointment of Clooney Fiancee.
A United Nations watchdog NGO slammed the international bodys decision to allow a law professor avowedly hostile to Israel as well as actor George Clooneys fiancee to head a human-rights inquiry into Israels. Schabas was an active participant before a pro-Palestinian ���tribunal��� that, according to a New York Times op-ed by Judge Richard Goldstone, consisted of one-sided evidence and a jury composed of ���critics whose harsh views of Israel are well known.���.
CHARLES ORTEL: Obama has no right to impose regime change upon Israel
Israel-bashing, popular for years across Europe, suddenly seems all the rage in Washington, D.C. and even here in parts of New York, where the United Nations likely will consider initiatives that could strengthen the hands of Palestinian elements and.
How many would be alive today if Obama had not quashed.
Deja vu all over again, but that happened last time, too. Cast Lead resulted in a UN Human Rights Council investigation and a scathing 400-page report nine months after the onslaught that accused Israel and Palestinian��.
Sarah Palin Criticizes Obama Over Absence From National Unity March In Paris
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry received criticism for not joining the more than one million people who participated in the march, an event the Interior Ministry called unprecedented.. to America.
Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: 01/26 Links Pt1: Rouhani.
���There is no evidence, according to the AMIA case file, of the involvement of Hassan Rouhani in any terrorist attack,��� Nisman told the Times of Israel in response to the article. However, Nisman.. Rivlin is in New York to address the official Holocaust commemorations of the United Nations... WATCH LIVE: Lavrov, Zarif address Iran nuclear talks as Kerry defends Israel at UNHRC - A US official accused the United Nations Human Rights Council of bias against Israel.
Facts All US Citizens Need to Know About Israel and Palestine
For example, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and many other human rights organizations reported that in Israels 2009 Gaza Massacre, Israel killed about 450 children, and it was Israel, they documented, that broke the ceasefire... to it by the United Nations ��� the Pre-1967 borders, which existed before Israel started eating away, through terror, ethnic cleansing, colonization, and annexation, at the areas reserved by the United Nations for Palestinians, as��.
US Adds Planes to Bolster Drive to Wipe Out ISIS
Human rights groups concur that the military has taken steps to reduce the risk of civilian casualties in the airstrikes, but said the dangers would increase when allied-backed Iraqi ground forces seek to retake cities like Mosul. ���When theyre.
Israel to mount media campaign against International Criminal Court
���Now the Palestinians are cynically manipulating the ICC to deny the Jewish state the right to defend itself against the very war crimes and the very terror that the court was established to prevent.��� The move. On the Israeli side, some will testify.
Human Wrongs Council - Israel Ambassador to UN on.
Ambassador Ron Prosor, Israels Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on Tuesday said ���the United Nations Human Rights Council set a new record for anti-Israel bias and proved once again, that it would be better named the Human. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is said to have made significant concession over Irans nuclear. Kerry Rewrites History. Black leader Star Parker said members of the Congressional Black Caucus should be ashamed.
War unlikely, but some Hezbollah response certain, experts say after strike
It is still unclear whether this is what happened in the town of Mazrat Amal near Quneitra Sunday, when an Israeli helicopter was said to have attacked a convoy of senior Iranian and Hezbollah leaders, killing the son of Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollahs.
Statement: Legal experts and human rights defenders demand
More than 140 international legal experts and human rights defenders from around the world, among them former UN independent experts and leading law professors, issued a joint declaration denouncing the grave violations and. Issuing a warning ��� such as Israels so-called roof knocking technique, or sending an SMS five minutes before the attack ��� does not mitigate this: it remains illegal to wilfully attack a civilian home without a demonstration of military��.