A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and academic turned diplomat, Samantha Power is best known for her efforts to bring her work highlighting genocide prevention onto the national and global stage. Power is now writing about her experiences from a perch at Harvard University, after concluding in January a tumultuous four years as the United States ambassador…
Words tend to fail us most in two circumstances — in the face of profound evil and of transcendent decency. When Elie Wiesel first tried to describe his experience in the camps, he later wrote, “I watched helplessly as language became an obstacle.” We who have the honor to speak about Elie have the opposite…
Samantha Power, the United States’ ambassador to the United Nations, is visiting Israel in part to try to improve prospects for a two-state solution. Power arrived in Israel on Saturday for a four-day visit to the Palestinian Authority, her first as the UN ambassador. “Power will discuss a range of regional and bilateral issues, including…
One thousand Jewish liberals gathered in New York on December 13 for what was billed as a “new Israeli American discussion” about Israel and its future, sponsored by the liberal Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz together with the New Israel Fund. The event was a day-long seminar, addressing such hot-button Israeli issues as Palestinian rights, religion…
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said Sunday that the United States and Israel’s security relationship “has never been stronger.” Speaking at HaaretzQ, the Israeli newspaper’s daylong event with the New Israel Fund, she stressed U.S. efforts to defend Israel at the United Nations. “As you all know, the U.N. is a place…
Rejecting the Iran nuclear deal would lead to diplomatic isolation for the United States and significantly undermine Washington’s ability to achieve other foreign policy goals, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Thursday. In an article published on the Politico website, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said diplomats from the 193 member states of…
The United States would continue to “work closely” with Israel at the United Nations but would not count out advancing resolutions targeting Israel, Samantha Power said. Power, the U.S. envoy to the international body, testified Wednesday before the foreign operations subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.),…
National Security Adviser Susan Rice and U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power will attend a meeting of the powerful pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC next week amid a time of strain between the United States and Israel. A White House spokeswoman confirmed Rice and Power would attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee meeting. Rice said in a…
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