Reuters The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday [18.10.23] that would have called for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants to allow humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip.
Jeffrey Sachs: The nations of the world, operating under the UN Charter and defending the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, must move urgently to help save both Israel and Palestine.
"We are hopeful that your country would support the Arab draft resolution," says the June 29 letter to Bildt. "Unfortunately," Sweden was among the EU nations voting to block action on the document last year, Moussa wrote. In Stockholm, Swedish foreign mi
by Thalif Deen / IPS. "Monday [3.5.2010] an overwhelming majority of U.N. member states - 118 out of 192 - wanted the defiant Jewish state to come clean with its nuclear weapons programme and sign the NPT, which is aimed at halting the spread of these dev
"The general assembly decides to revoke the determination contained in its resolution 3379 (XXX) of 10 November 1975." This formed resolution 46/86, which is one of the shortest in UN history. During this session, President Bush told the General Assembly: "...to equate Zionism with the intolerable sin of racism is to twist history and forget the terrible plight of Jews in World War II and indeed throughout history." The motion was supported by 111 (including the 90 nations who sponsored the resolution), opposed by 25 nations and abstained by 13 nations.
Transcript of an interview in March 2010 with Remy Brulin, who recently had finished "his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled "The US Discourse on Terrorism Since 1945, and how The New York Times has Covered the Issue of Terrorism" "... there were a couple of conferences, one in ’79 and one in ’84, that were both organized by an organization, an institute, called the Jonathan Institute. It’s called the Jonathan Institute after the name of Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother, Jonathan Netanyahu, and he was killed in the raid in Entebbe in ’76 [...] the first conference that was designed to define or come up with a consensus definition of terrorism" Definition : “terrorism is the deliberate systematic murder, maiming and menacing of innocents to inspire fear in order to gain political ends.” the Dodd (D) amendment, against wich Stevens (R) said "the Contras were freedom fighters" never reported by NYT
UNITED NATIONS, May 5 (IPS) - A detailed 184-page report critical of Israeli attacks on U.N. personnel and buildings during the Gaza conflict last December-January has been meticulously stripped down to a 27-page document - mostly due to political sensiti
Bevisen och vittnesmålen om israeliska krigsförbrytelser under Gaza-massakern växer. Varje vecka kommer nya rapporter. Nu behövs en internationell undersökning som föreslår hur skyldiga kan åtalas, skriver Per Wirtén i Dagens Arena