Last week’s vote in the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel “does nothing to help the Palestinians in practical terms,” Walter Russell Mead, a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute, wrote in an analysis Sunday. Mead observed that while the Palestinians have developed an effective diplomatic program to promote...

The Palestinian Authority’s ruling political party posted a picture on its official Facebook page on Saturday depicting an Israel-shaped knife dripping in blood to celebrate the passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel. Did #Fatah thank 14 countries for granting it permission to kill #Israelis? #UNSC2334 https://t.co/FMmIpTeAMy pic.twitter.com/feUTLkrro9...

Newly disclosed side agreements to the nuclear deal with Iran reveal that the Islamic Republic is allowed to exceed limits on its nuclear-related stockpiles without penalty, a leading nuclear expert told The Weekly Standard on Friday. David Albright, a former weapons inspector and current president of the Institute for Science and International Security,...

In July 2006, Israel fought a bitter defensive war against the Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah. The hostilities, which saw thousands of rockets fired at Israel by Hezbollah terrorists, as well as the displacement of nearly 500,000 Israelis from their homes, ended one month later with a United Nations-brokered cease-fire. Hezbollah...

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a harsh statement on Friday criticizing the United Nations Security Council’s vote in favor of a resolution condemning Israeli activity in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. Israel rejects this shameful anti-Israel resolution at the UN and will not abide by...

The Obama administration’s decision to abstain from a United Nations Security Council vote on Israeli settlements on Friday was the subject of intense opposition from lawmakers in the president’s own party, with Democratic leaders warning that the resolution will damage efforts to advance peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Incoming...

The recent United Nations Security Council resolution that condemns Israeli settlement activity will create “a tailwind for violence and terror,” Yair Lapid, the former Finance Minister who now leads one of Israel’s biggest opposition parties, told reporters Friday. The resolution passed 14-0 with the United States abstaining. U.S. Ambassador to...

The passage of a one-sided anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations Security Council, as is anticipated to occur today, would mark a significant departure from an international consensus governing peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The resolution states that the Security Council “reaffirms that the establishment by Israel of...

Passing a proposed resolution on Israeli settlements at the United Nations Security Council would “vastly magnify” the obstacles to Israeli-Palestinian peace, a leading legal expert wrote in The Washington Post Thursday. “The proposed resolution denounces any Jewish presence in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank as illegal and demands that Israel immediately choke off...

The government of Iran has told an imprisoned dual British-Iranian citizen that she must care for her two-year-old daughter in the notorious Evin Prison or sign away her parental rights, The Telegraph reported Thursday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at the Tehran Imam Khomeini...