Tag: U.N.

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  By Sajjad Shaukat for VT Suddenly tension has intensified between Russia and the US with the order of the American President Donald Trump, when in...

Tariq Ali talks to Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine (2008-2014) and Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, about the findings of his report for the UN, which describe the manner in which Israel has come to dominate the Palestinian people based on structures of systematic discrimination.

Jim W. Dean - The dump trucks of lies continue to unload on the American people, who as an additional humiliation are forced to pay for the delivery. Having a female UN ambassador as the driver seems to be in vogue as a softer way to do it.

Jim W. Dean - As Obama heads toward the door, the crimes of his administration against Syria, and especially Aleppo, are going to be thrown at him like rotten eggs and tomatoes.

Editor's note: By "Judea and Samaria" they are referring to the 40 percent of non-occupied Palestine that, by UN agreement from 1947, makes up the Palestinian state.

Jim W. Dean - I suspect more big terror attacks as an intimidation tactic of what could continue to happen if certain parties see the Syrian situation go against their desired outcome. They will not take it lying down.

Nothing could have been more calculated to ruin Hanukka for the Israeli High Command and bring Christmas cheer to the Palestinian Christians and Muslims they have abused and terrorised for decades.

If the One State is an existential threat to Israel being the Jewish state, then the recent UN resolution is the last attempt to revive the Two-State Solution.

US Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes has told the whining Israeli prime minister that only he is responsible for Washington’s decision to allow the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution that condemned Israel for illegal settlement construction in occupied Palestinian territories.

Jim W. Dean - The US played its pro-jihadi hand out to the end, insisting during the Aleppo negotiations with Lavrov that a three to five day ceasefire was needed BEFORE the jihadis left the city.

I've been thinking about what Dr. Hans has said about P5 immunity and privilege, manifesting negatively in the power of veto for the purpose of concealing complicity in nefarious undertakings.

Militants from Ahrar Al-Sham, a hardline Islamist group, are planning to use white phosphorus in an attack on civilians to later blame it on Syrian armed forces, UN envoy Bashar Ja’afari told a UN Security Council emergency meeting on Sunday.

Jim W. Dean - Obama's UN speech writers went overboard on trying to wallpaper over the blood splatters of his regime change legacy, thinking that would erase it. And the parts about "accountable government and "true democracy" made me gag.

Jim W. Dean - My my, Bibi gets a very public spanking in front of the Security Council by Ban Ki-moon. One could say that the Secretary General was wanting to get a few good licks in while he still has the position.

The Representative of the Islamic Jihad movement said: the victory of Fallujah is a big and positive step in order to confront and destroy ISIS.

Hussein al-Izzi, the head of Foreign Relations for Ansar Allah, has met Mr.Oleg, the charge d'affaires of Russian Ambassador on Thursday.

Jim W. Dean - The thin veil has now been dropped by the Saudis. The Royals are demanding a UN understanding that they can purchase immunity from any UN determinations on their actions.

Jim W. Dean - Seth Ferris hits a grand slam home run with this piece, about how the dynamics of modern warfare still follow the "use it or lose it" mentality and subterfuge of the past.

Jim W. Dean - Assad counterattacks by charging bad faith on those still demanding he step down, when the Geneva mandate was for all opposition parties to be involved, which certainly included him, and he gently reminds us that the Syrian-Russian military progress is "helping" the political process.

Jim W. Dean - As I had editorialized on the front end of the talks, several of the main players were only interested in participating as a platform to make demands to get what they have been using their terrorist proxies for, but were now losing.

Jim W. Dean - As I predicted the Saudi opposition group did not get their surrender demands met on the front end of the peace conference so they walked out, ending them for now.