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Breaking News ‘Palestine’ Deadline Resolution Fails in U.N. by 8-2 Vote
The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday rejected a Palestinian resolution calling for Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories by late 2017. Even if the draft had received the minimum nine votes in favor, it would have been defeated by Washington’s vote against it. The United States is one of the five veto-wielding permanent members. There…
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Breaking News Britain Won’t Back U.N. ‘Palestine’ Resolution
Britain joined the United States on Tuesday, declaring that it cannot support a new Palestinian draft proposal calling for peace with Israel within a year and an end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017. Jordan on Tuesday circulated to the U.N. Security Council a draft resolution prepared by the Palestinians, who…
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Breaking News Palestinians To Outnumber Israeli Jews by 2016
The number of Palestinians living in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza will equal the number of Jewish Israelis in 2016, according to Palestinian statistics. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in a report summarizing 2014 determined that the projected number of Palestinians in the world is 12.1 million, of whom 4.62 million live in…
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Breaking News 6 Reasons ‘Pinkwashing’ Israel on Gay Rights Is So Wrong
Pinkwashing just won’t die. No matter how many times the tactic is called out, its proponents just keep on doing it, blithely unaware of how transparently ridiculous it is — or how offensive. So, let’s look closely at one recent example: last week’s full-page ad in the New York Times proclaiming “Hamas, ISIS, and Iran…
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Breaking News U.S. Blasts ‘Palestine’ U.N. Resolution as Not ‘Constructive’
The United States said on Monday it did not support a draft statehood resolution that the Palestinians plan to introduce at the United Nations, saying it would not advance the goal of peace or address Israel’s security needs. “We don’t think this resolution is constructive,” State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke told a regular news briefing….
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Breaking News Arabs Meet on Palestinian Push for U.N. ‘Deadline’ Resolution
Arab U.N. delegations on Monday discussed a Palestinian plan to make peace with Israel within a year and end Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017, despite Israeli and U.S. opposition. Several Western council diplomats told Reuters they had been surprised by the Palestinians’ sudden push to submit over the next few days a…
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Breaking News Palestinians To Submit U.N. Statehood Resolution Today
Palestinians plan to submit a final draft of a statehood resolution to the United Nations on Monday calling for a peace deal with Israel within a year and an end to occupation of Palestinian territories by the end of 2017, officials said. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas informed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry by phone…
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Breaking News Israelis Save Stricken Palestinian Boy at Border
Israeli paramedics and the Israel Defense Forces saved the life of a Palestinian baby who collapsed at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan. The family was taking the 6-month-old baby with heart problems to Jordan on Saturday morning to receive medical attention when he suffered what is believed to be a heart…
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