By Glenn Greenwald The Intercept ON WEDNESDAY, a U.N. agency published a report noting that “Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole.” Yesterday, the author of that report, who has served as executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) since 2010, … Continued
Associated Press The Washington Post The Palestinian president has awarded his people’s highest honor to a former U.N. official who was forced to resign last week after authoring a report that accused Israel of establishing an “apartheid regime.” The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said Sunday that President Mahmoud Abbas informed Rima Khalaf by phone … Continued
By Ruth Eglash The Washington Post If being an apartheid state means committing inhumane acts, systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another, then Israel is guilty, a United Nations panel has determined in a new report. The findings from an Arab-led group were not cleared or fully backed by U.N. leadership and … Continued
By Allison Deger Mondoweiss Rima Khalaf, the head of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). resigned today after she was asked to withdraw a report her agency published earlier this week that stated Israel is an “apartheid regime.” “The secretary-general demanded yesterday that I withdraw the report, and I refused,”Khalaf … Continued
By AMIR COHEN Reuters A U.N. agency published a report on Wednesday accusing Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime” of racial discrimination on the Palestinian people, and said it was the first time a U.N. body had clearly made the charge. Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman likened the report, which was published by the U.N. Economic … Continued
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, left, addresses a United Nations human rights meeting in New York on March 9. (BEBETO MATTHEWS / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) By SAMANTHA SCHMIDT The Washington Post An accomplished, international human rights lawyer delivered a potent call for action at the United Nations on Thursday, urging the organization to back an … Continued
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shaking hands with new U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley in New York, January 27, 2017. Haaretz The U.S. had signed off on former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s appointment as the head of the UN mission to Libya before suddenly coming out against the choice, Foreign Policy reported … Continued
Aljazeera Four UN council members have given Egypt an ultimatum on whether it plans to go ahead with a vote demanding an end to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Diplomats from New Zealand, Venezuela, Malaysia and Senegal told Egypt late on Thursday that if it did not clarify on whether it planned to call a vote on a … Continued
Aljazeera The UN Security Council has voted in favour of a resolution demanding the halt of settlement activity by Israel on occupied Palestinian territory with the United States notably abstaining. The resolution was put forward at the 15-member council for a vote on Friday by New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal a day after Egypt … Continued
By Jeffrey Heller and Michelle Nichols Reuters U.S. President-elect Donald Trump echoed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in urging the Obama administration on Thursday to veto a U.N. Security Council draft resolution that calls for an immediate halt to settlement building on occupied land Palestinians seek for a state. Netanyahu took to Twitter in the … Continued
A limestone found in Az-Zantur in Petra with Nabataean script, from which Arabic script was born. The text mentions a cavalry leader who erected a building for the King Aretas IV and gives the date : February of year AD 10. The stone is on display at The Sharjah Archaeology Museum under the Exhibition: Petra, … Continued
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