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November 3, 2011
Israel
Accelerating Palestinian UN Diplomacy and Its Consequences
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas holds up a letter to United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon requesting Palestinian statehood at the 66th United Nations General Assembly at UN head…
February 18, 2011
Middle East and North Africa
How to Lose Friends and Not Influence People
The Obama Administration cast its first veto in the United Nations on Friday, February 18, killing a Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlement activity. Its poor handl…
April 2, 2014
United States
Is the White House Pulling the Plug on Kerry’s Peace Mission?
Secretary of State John Kerry abruptly cancelled his Middle East shuttle diplomacy yesterday less than a month before his self-imposed deadline for concluding an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty. The…
November 28, 2012
United States
Palestine’s Muddled Statehood Strategy
If all goes according to plan, the UN General Assembly will vote on Thursday or soon after to accord Palestine “non-member observer state status” in the United Nations. According to Mahmoud Abbas, th…
December 19, 2011
Israel
Snapshot from Jerusalem
The Dome of the Rock is seen during sunset in Jerusalem's Old City on January 12, 2011 (Baz Ratner/Courtesy Reuters). Jerusalem-- After a brief visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, it is…
