The United Nations Security Council on Monday passed a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip during the remaining weeks of Ramadan, breaking a five-month impasse during which the United States vetoed three calls for a halt to the fighting. The resolution passed with 14 votes in …
Read More »U.S. Call for Gaza Cease-Fire Runs Into Russia-China Veto at U.N.
A U.S. bid to have the U.N. Security Council call for “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Gaza Strip failed on Friday, after Russia and China vetoed the American resolution that included some of Washington’s strongest language since the start of the war. The resolution reflected the Biden administration’s …
Read More »A Look at the Three Previous U.N. Cease-Fire Resolutions the U.S. Vetoed
Before the United States presented a resolution at the United Nations Security Council on Friday calling for an “immediate and sustained cease-fire” in Gaza, it had vetoed three previous ones demanding a halt to the fighting. The United States has long used its veto power as a permanent Security Council …
Read More »Widening Mideast Crisis: Two Countries Join U.S. in Pausing Funding for U.N. Aid Agency in Gaza
A ruling on Friday by the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide against Israel had deep historical resonance for both Israelis and Palestinians. But it lacked immediate practical consequences. The World Court did not order a halt to fighting in the Gaza Strip and made no attempt to …
Read More »Israel-Hamas War: U.N. Court Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide, but Does Not Demand Stop to War
A kaffiyeh draped over his dark suit, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa stared intently at a projection screen on Friday afternoon as it showed the International Court of Justice delivering its preliminary ruling in the genocide case his nation brought against Israel. He occasionally scribbled notes on a pad, …
Read More »U.S. Says It’s Ready to Back U.N. Resolution to Allow More Aid Into Gaza
Health authorities in Gaza say that about 20,000 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in Israel’s campaign, and the U.N. has warned of a humanitarian disaster as the territory’s civic and health care infrastructure collapses. U.N. officials said this month that nearly 60 percent of people …
Read More »U.N. Security Council Vote on Gaza Resolution Is Delayed Again
For the second day in a row, the United Nations Security Council delayed a vote on a resolution calling for Israel and Hamas to provide greater access for more humanitarian aid, and pauses in the fighting to make that possible, as diplomats wrestled with the United States on what it …
Read More »U.S. becomes only country to veto a Gaza cease-fire resolution at the U.N.
The United States vetoed a resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war at the United Nations Security Council on Friday, December 8. The Security Council vote on the resolution, backed by Arab states, had 13 in favor and one — the U.S. — against, while the United …
Read More »Vivek Ramaswamy is Right: Get America Out Of the U.N. and NATO
Millennial GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has captured the curiosities of young conservative voters and has managed to qualify for the next presidential debate in November. The last debate, and many of his public comments on Ukraine, Taiwan, and now Israel have garnered him considerable criticism from the Republican Party …
Read More »U.N. Security Council Unanimously Condemns Taliban’s Treatment of Women
In a rare show of unity, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Thursday condemning the Taliban’s discrimination against women and girls in Afghanistan and called for the country’s leadership to swiftly reverse policies banning education, employment and equal public participation of women and girls. The resolution, co-sponsored …
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