Benjamin Netanyahu

UN Security Council Members Say to Israel and Hamas: Stop Killing Children

• May 16, 2021

Across seven straight days of sudden, staggering violence between Israel and Hamas and rising death tolls of civilians, all 15 members of the Security Council aired their views publicly at the United Nations on Sunday, after the Council held two closed meetings last week on the continuing destruction in Israel and Palestine. Officials from …

Israeli-Palestinian conflict, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Will Trump’s ‘Vision’ Shake Up the Middle East?

Irwin Arieff

• February 3, 2020

When is a peace plan not a peace plan? Look no further than Donald Trump’s cynically timed initiative to end the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. If a breakthrough does result, it will be in spite of itself. Released in late January after three years lurking in the shadows, it would jettison decades …

Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Security Council, US Foreign Relations

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Strongmen to Kick Off the UN General Assembly Session in September

Stéphanie Fillion

• August 14, 2019

Donald Trump will shake hands with Emmanuel Macron, Jair Bolsonaro and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. But will Benjamin Netanyahu; Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel be there, too? The 74th opening debate of the United Nations General Assembly, which starts on Sept.17 and ends on Sept. 30; the general debate begins on Sept. 24. With most …

Climate Change, General Assembly, US-UN Relations

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Trump Blows Up the UN, Metaphorically Speaking

Laura E. Kirkpatrick

• September 19, 2017

Can a rebuttal happen before an event occurs? United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres took pre-emptive strikes against President Donald Trump in his speech at the opening session of the 72nd General Assembly, on Sept. 19, 2017. Rumors were rampant that Trump would deliver a strongly nationalistic speech, reportedly written by Stephen Miller, author of …

General Assembly, Middle East, Migration, Peace and Security, Refugees, Terrorism, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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GEOPOLITICS

Jerusalem Has Always Been a Contested City

Irwin Arieff

• March 7, 2017

The long-simmering dispute over the fate of Jerusalem stands at the center of the Middle East conflict. Israelis and Palestinians, divided on many points, become most emotional when discussing the future of the walled, ancient crossroads city that is holy to three world religions. So international diplomats took notice when foreign policy neophyte Donald …

Geopolitics, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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WORLDVIEWS

Trump Upends US Foreign Policy Before He’s Even Sworn In

Jeffrey Laurenti

• January 4, 2017

Never has a president-elect so roiled American foreign policy before even taking office. On a dizzying range of fronts — Russia, China, Europe, the Middle East — Donald J. Trump has dissented from longstanding United States policy, challenged the outgoing president as he has managed America’s international relations and put in doubt the future …

Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS

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Defying Trump in Momentous Vote, UN Security Council Condemns Israeli Settlements

Dulcie Leimbach

• December 23, 2016

In last-minute drama before the Christmas holiday, a vote by the United Nations Security Council on a resolution condemning illegal Israeli settlements boiled down to one country’s tacit approval: the United States. In an intensely watched vote on Dec. 23 at the UN, 14 elected and permanent members of the council voted yes …

Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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WORLDVIEWS

Netanyahu’s Scorched-Earth Campaign Destroys US Plea for Bilateralism

Irwin Arieff

• March 19, 2015

Benjamin Netanyahu’s desperate 11th-hour election strategy has left in tatters the main United States argument for aggressively protecting Israeli interests in the Middle East peace process, a development that will most likely weaken the Obama administration’s already strained fervor for shielding Israel in international diplomatic battles. A new dynamic will surely surface in the …