Diplomacy

Reuters reported Thursday that negotiations between the UN’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) and Iran – aimed at securing inspector access to sites where the Iranians are suspected of having conducted military-related atomic work – “appear not to have substantively advanced,” with the agency tersely announcing that “Iran did not propose any...

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UN Watch revealed Tuesday that European Union (EU) representatives had stopped attending United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions that focused on permanent agenda item 7 since last month. The move prompted outrage among Arab and Muslim nations. UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer was quoted (video embedded below) on the...

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Continuing his contentious approach towards Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened Tuesday that he would stop his security cooperation with Israel in the case that his proposed United Nations Security Council resolution against Israel is vetoed. The Jerusalem Post reports: Abbas said he would submit the plan, mandating an Israeli withdrawal...

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A White House meeting on Wednesday between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw the two leaders emphasizing mutual cooperation across a range of issues, with Netanyahu also outlining how new regional realities have aligned Jerusalem with traditional U.S. allies long considered hostile to the Jewish state....

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Palestinian leaders over the weekend lashed out against the State Department, after Foggy Bottom harshly criticized a speech given by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in which Abbas charted a diplomatic path that would see the Palestinians abandoning negotiations with Israel in favor of international legal warfare against the...

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“Islamic resistance,” a byword for attacks on Israel if not the country’s destruction, is a “religious and human duty,” according to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani. Slamming the Tel Aviv regime as the major threat to the world, Shamkhani called on the whole Muslim nation to close...

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