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The United States has warned European countries that supporting unilateral moves by the Palestinian Authority at the United Nations, where the Palestinians are attempting to achieve non-member observer status outside of a negotiated framework with Israel, would be “extremely counterproductive”and result in “significant negative consequences.” In a private memo, the...

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Global Affairs

A solid majority of Americans – 62 percent – support the use of force to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, according to a new poll by the Foreign Policy Initiative. 45 percent of respondents also named the Islamic Republic as the country posing “the most danger” to U.S. national...

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Europe

250 members of the House of Representatives signed and sent a letter to European Union chief Catherine Ashton seeking to designate the Iranian proxy Hezbollah a terrorist organization. The letter follows a similar one authored by 76 Senators. These come in the context of widely held suspicions and expert analysis linking Hezbollah to...

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Global Affairs

A recent Palestinian move to use the United Nations to bolster claims to statehood “threatens United States and Israeli interests” and “undermines all internationally accepted frameworks for peace,” according to a Heritage Foundation report authored by Brett D. Schaefer and James Phillips. The report insists that “firm action is necessary”...

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