Mahmoud Abbas
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • February 20, 2020
President Trump has made good on his campaign promises to redefine America’s relationship with the rest of the world — for better or for worse — and the United Nations has in many ways been the epicenter of his…
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • February 11, 2020
A few days after Jared Kushner, President Trump’s adviser and son-in-law, met with United Nations Security Council members offsite in New York to sell the United States’ Mideast deal for peace, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came to the Council…
- 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
- Irwin Arieff
- • March 7, 2018
Nikki Haley is appealing to the Palestinian people for “negotiation and compromise” in search of Middle East peace, denying that Washington is biased against them even as she warns their leaders that holding out will “lead to nothing but…
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Nikki Haley Watch, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 20, 2018
Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestinian Authority, sticks to his well-known grievances. While Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, finger-points; Nikki Haley, the American envoy to the UN, warns everyone to stay off the topic of…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 2, 2015
The Palestinians have deposited copies of the legal instruments to join the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the world’s single permanent judicial body to try war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. If Palestine is accepted as a…
- Categories: ICC, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 31, 2014
The Palestinians’ failed proposal to formally establish a state and end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017 through a vote in the United Nations Security Council on Dec. 30 continued to reflect the immense influence of…
- Categories: ICC, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
- Alice Volkov
- • November 30, 2012
The General Assembly voted to elevate the Palestinian territories‘ status at the United Nations to nonmember observer state from nonmember observer entity, which it has held since 1974. The vote, occurring late afternoon on Nov. 29 in a packed…
- Categories: General Assembly, Middle East, US-UN Relations
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