New York Times | Middle East|Rebuffing Israel, US Allows Censure Over Settlements New York Times After the United States chose to abstain from the vote, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution demanding that Israel end settlement construction in occupied Palestinian territory. Applause erupted in the room after the draft resolution ... US declines to veto UN Security Council resolution for Israel to stop Jewish settlement activity US Allows UN to Censure Israel United Nations Demands End to Israel Settlement Building; US Abstains |
Reuters | UN Security Council denounces Israeli settlements, US abstains Reuters "Israel rejects this shameful anti-Israel resolution at the U.N. and will not abide by its terms," the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has encouraged the expansion of Jewish settlements in land captured by Israel in a 1967 war with its ... |
New York Times | Berlin, Putin, Trump, Israel: Your Friday Evening Briefing New York Times The United States abstained in a U.N. vote against Israel's settlement policy, defying calls to veto from Israel and Mr. Trump. That broke a longstanding American tradition of serving as Israel's sturdiest diplomatic shield. The 15-member Security ... |
Chicago Tribune | Obama administration declines veto on UN condemnation of Israeli settlements Chicago Tribune The resolution said Israel's settlements in lands the Palestinians want to include in their future state have "no legal validity." It demanded a halt to such activities for the sake of "salvaging the two-state solution." Loud applause erupted in the ... US abstains on Israel vote, allowing UN to condemn settlement building |
New York Times | In Israel, Arrest of Arab Lawmaker Stokes Debate on Loyalty - The ... New York Times Basel Ghattas, an Arab member of Israel's Parliament, in 2015. Mr. Ghattas was accused of smuggling cellphones to Palestinian prisoners. Credit Ahmad ... |
Aljazeera.com | Israeli rabbis launch war on Christmas tree Aljazeera.com In the coastal city of Haifa, in northern Israel, the rabbi of Israel's premier technology university has taken a similarly strict line. Elad Dokow, the Technion's rabbi, ordered that Jewish students boycott their students' union, after it installed ... |
Breitbart News | CNN: Obama Fired a 'Parting Shot' Towards Israel and Netanyahu Breitbart News On Friday's broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” CNN Global Affairs Correspondent Elise Labott and CNN Global Affairs Analyst Aaron David Miller characterized the US abstaining on a UN Security Council vote on the Israeli settlements as a “parting shot” by ... |
Reuters | US senator threatens to curb aid over UN resolution on Israel Reuters WASHINGTON A top U.S. senator who oversees the United States' UN funding threatened on Friday to pull financial support for the international body if it moves forward with a vote on a resolution over Israeli settlements, and for any nation that backs ... |
Aljazeera.com | Stephen Bannon and disarming Israel - Al Jazeera English Aljazeera.com The exposed roots of Zionism in anti-Semitism are now a matter of factual evidence for the whole world to see. |
CBC.ca | 'A small stone in building peace': Syrians treated by Israeli medics CBC.ca Israel's army opened up the border gates in the Golan Heights four months ago, and transported Souria to a hospital in northern Israel to treat a serious leg wound he suffered while fighting with the Free Syrian Army against regime forces. |