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Topic: United Nations General Assembly

May 19, 2013
10:50 pm

'Google recognizes Palestine as a state, and what about Funland?' (photo credit: screen shot via Facebook)

Google’s ‘Palestine’ sends Likud pol viral

Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon says name change ‘strengthens violence and terror,’ wonders whether Internet giant will soon also come up with a ‘State of Funland’

By Raphael Ahren

December 18, 2012
4:44 pm

The UN Palestine resolution was void from the start

Mahmoud Abbas is not the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people

By Maurice Ostroff

December 10, 2012
11:41 pm

An urgent need for pro-Israel unity

Do the B’nai Jeshurun rabbis intend to pray at the Kotel next time they visit Israel?

By Alan Dershowitz

December 2, 2012
9:11 am

Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas in May. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu sends thanks to Prague for support at UN

Prime minister calls Czech vote against Palestinian upgrade ‘courageous’

November 30, 2012
3:25 am

Palestinians celebrate as they watch a screen showing the UN General Assembly votes on a resolution to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority to a nonmember observer state, In the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, November 29, 2012. (photo credit: Majdi Mohammed/AP)

‘It’s a first step to a country,’ says elated young Palestinian journalist

Reporter’s notebook: After the overwhelming vote at the General Assembly on Thursday, Palestinians were excited and hopeful, convinced of the history of the moment — and wary of speaking to an Israeli journalist

By Haviv Rettig Gur

November 29, 2012
11:41 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appeals to all nations to vote in favor of the Palestinians "as an investment in peace," in a statement before the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Nov. 29 (photo credit: Richard Drew/AP)

Full text of Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the UN General Assembly, November 29, 2012

‘The General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the State of Palestine,’ says PA president

November 29, 2012
10:07 pm

US Senator Lindsey Graham (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US lawmakers threaten to halt aid to Palestinians if they use UN upgrade against Israel

Senator Lindsey Graham says he fears new status will be abused ‘as a club against Israel’

By Donna Cassata

November 26, 2012
8:18 pm

Support Palestinian statehood

From the Web Blocking Mahmoud Abbas’s bid for statehood in the UN will only empower extremists further, writes Yossi Beilin in the New York Times

November 14, 2012
11:50 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

Ban Ki-moon: ‘Do not pull the plug’ on two-state solution

UN secretary-general refrains from commenting on Palestinian bid to gain nonmember status

By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff

October 31, 2012
12:21 pm

United Nations headquarters building in New York. (photo credit: CC BY WorldIslandInfo.com/Flickr)

Palestinians lobby for convincing win in UN vote

From the web Although victory is likely, PLO wants support from European nations in critical campaign to upgrade status, Reuters reports

September 28, 2012
1:01 am

An edited photo of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivering his speech to the United Nations on Thursday depicts the prime minister as the bumbling cartoon character Wile E. Coyote.

PM’s ‘bomb’ explodes online

Netanyahu’s cartoonishly simple diagram inspires spoofs

By Sam Ser