Benjamin Netanyahu
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • 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…
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- 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….
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
- 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…
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, US-UN Relations
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- 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…
- 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…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
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