Anti-Israel bias has been a pervasive feature of the United Nations Human Rights Council since its inception nine years ago, according to a report issued yesterday by the watchdog group UN Watch. In the nine years of its existence, the UN Human Rights Council has condemned Israel more times than the rest...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon conveyed his opposition to the upcoming flotilla organized to break the blockade of Gaza via a top UN official on Wednesday. In a briefing to the UN Security Council, Undersecretary General Jeffrey Feltman stated that Ban “continues to believe that a flotilla will not help to address the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its preliminary report on Israel’s economy on Wednesday, noting that the country’s economy is “performing well” and that the economic outlook is positive. IMF division chief Bas Bakker presented the findings to Israeli Minister of Finance Moshe Kahlon and the Bank of Israel governor Karnit Flug. The findings...

The report by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the 2014 Gaza conflict, released earlier this week, is substantiated in large part by the allegations of political advocacy NGOs (non-governmental organizations). One such group, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I), was cited 16 times. PHR-I is an Israeli organization that has a...

An open letter to the White House signed by a bipartisan group of experts, including five former Obama administration officials, called on the United States to strengthen the emerging nuclear agreement with Iran, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The letter enumerated five elements that need to be strengthened to prevent Iran...

The emerging deal with Iran will likely have the opposite effect of what President Barack Obama intended, spurring nuclear proliferation in the Middle East rather than curtailing it, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen told Bloomberg reporters on Wednesday. “The administration’s intent was to have a counter-proliferation program. And the...