Tag Archives: United Nations

Signs of Wanting Peace

Posted on 10/06/2011 by Rabbi Kaufman

According to a recent New York Times article: The Palestinian decision to apply for full United Nations membership at the Security Council, announced Friday by President Mahmoud Abbas, was the most viable of the only options possible: surrender, return to violence or appeal … Continue reading →

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What No One Seems to Be Mentioning

Posted on 05/28/2011 by Rabbi Kaufman

When President Obama spoke last week at the State Department, he said something, different things, that upset virtually every Middle Eastern nation or group. Pissing off the Mullahs does not bother me. Calling out Bahrain while not mentioning Saudi Arabia … Continue reading →

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Syria and the UN Human Rights Council

Posted on 04/27/2011 by Meryl Yourish

The UN Human Rights Council is holding a special session on Syria. Whoa—did the UN suddenly get a conscience? Nope. The request, filed by the United States, was jointly submitted by 10 European states, as well as Japan, Mexico, South … Continue reading →

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Windy Tuesday briefs

Posted on 04/05/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Last night I’m pretty sure I saw a witch riding on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch. UNHRC to Goldstone: Nyah nyah nyah, it is too true! The execrable United Nations Human Rights Council says that Goldstone’s op-ed, where he … Continue reading →

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Wednesday in the news

Posted on 03/30/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Is there a plan that this president does not think needs increased spending? Obama’s going to pretend to care about high gas prices in a speech today. His solution? The administration officials offered few details on how Obama would turn … Continue reading →

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The UN condemnation shell game

Posted on 03/24/2011 by Meryl Yourish

What did UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon say when the Fogel family were butchered in their sleep? The Secretary-General condemns last night’s shocking murder of an Israeli family of five, including three children, in a West Bank settlement. He calls … Continue reading →

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Compare and contrast, freedom version

Posted on 03/09/2011 by Meryl Yourish

In Egypt, women marching for equal rights were harassed, sexually assaulted, and beaten. Thousands of men surrounded hundreds of women and drove them from Tahrir Square on International Women’s Day. The AP headline for this story? Egyptian women’s rights protest … Continue reading →

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Tuesday briefs

Posted on 03/08/2011 by Meryl Yourish

What do you mean, you don’t trust the Palestinians? Netanyahu says the IDF needs to stay in the Jordan Valley. Of course this will get spun as if the Israelis are enacting yet another “land grab” (the AP’s favorite phrase … Continue reading →

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Yes, it’s all Israel’s fault

Posted on 02/22/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Libyan troops are massacring protesters. Bodies are lying in the streets. The arms that Ghaddafy is using to murder his countrymen? Supplied by Britain and Italy. Hezbollah is now deeply intertwined with the Mexican drug cartels, teaching them advanced bomb-making … Continue reading →

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Purim Katan – The Threat of The Mob

Posted on 02/18/2011 by Rabbi Kaufman

Everywhere in the world today, minorities are under threat. Some of you, no–many of you, would note, “They always are.” Yet, the truth is that such threats are relative and today, I am concerned. Americans believe that power is derived … Continue reading →

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Finally Friday briefs

Posted on 01/14/2011 by Meryl Yourish

The awesome awesomeness of the ability of Israel to cause everything: You know, we Jews are so wily, so powerful, so all-encompassing, that we can cause neighboring state governments to fall. An Iranian minister said so. (With help from the … Continue reading →

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UN follies

Posted on 01/05/2011 by Meryl Yourish

File this under “How could they tell?” (I missed it two weeks ago, but it must now be told.) The UN was evacuated due to a foul stench. U.N. security officials evacuated the buildings where the Security Council and the … Continue reading →

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Take us to your leaders

Posted on 09/28/2010 by Soccerdad

In the wonderfully titled Third world debating society elects itself world’s envoy in case of alien contact, Q & O speculated: Can you imagine a worse institution to have represent humanity than the UN? And frankly, if intelligent aliens ever … Continue reading →

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Elsewhere

Posted on 08/16/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Reading material for while I’m working: Bad girl, bad girl: I have two words to say about this graffiti that Bad Rachel (who is now blogrolled) posted: Awe and some. Barack Obama has “abandonded America”: The 9/11 Families reaction to … Continue reading →

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Zabla it ain’t

Posted on 08/03/2010 by Soccerdad

There’s a concept in Jewish law of “zeh borer lo echad” or “each one chooses one.” In Hebrew, the term is shortened to its acronym, “zabla.” When two litigants have a court case requiring three judges, each litigant chooses a … Continue reading →

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Israel briefs, snarkly

Posted on 07/25/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Better late than never: The AP explains the Israeli side of the Gaza flotilla incident in the 11th paragraph of this story about Turkish protests at an Israeli volleyball game in Turkey. (It’s for a European tournament.) How dangerous is … Continue reading →

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Naming and shaming the U.N.

Posted on 07/11/2010 by Meryl Yourish

This guy is my new hero: Phillip Ruch’s monument to Srebrenica is a huge jumble of worn shoes, more than 16,000 of them, each pair representing a victim of Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. Seen from afar it … Continue reading →

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Obama throws Israel under the bus

Posted on 06/16/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Abu Ghraib did not merit a UN investigation. The United States would have vetoed any such effort from the UN. British soldiers killing Iraqi POWs did not merit a UN investigation. The United States would have vetoed any such effort … Continue reading →

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The UN condemns “acts”

Posted on 06/01/2010 by Soccerdad

No surprise. The United States tried for some ambiguity, but didn’t really get it. In a formal statement that seemed less forceful than what had been demanded by Palestinians, Arabs and Turkey the council also demanded an impartial investigation into … Continue reading →

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The joke that is the UN Human Rights Council

Posted on 05/14/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The latest addition to the UN Human Rights Council? Libya. Libya was elected Thursday to the United Nations Human Rights Council, over the objections of numerous NGOs that said the country was unfit to serve on the rights body. A … Continue reading →

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