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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

UNSC Resolution 2334

In this photo from June 13, 2018, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks to the General Assembly before a vote to condemn Israeli actions in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, at UN headquarters in New York. (Don Emmert/AFP)
May 18, 2022, 8:06 pm
Calling Obama administration ‘cowardly,’ Danny Danon releases book on UN tenure
In ‘Lion’s Den,’ veteran Likudnik writes on Russia’s surprising help at Turtle Bay, laments current Israeli coalition’s ‘inexperience’ at the top
By Lazar Berman
Then-US president Donald Trump, right, looks over to then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 28, 2020, at which Trump unveiled his 'Peace to Prosperity' vision for an Israeli-Palestinian accord. (AP/Susan Walsh)
November 9, 2020, 11:46 am
Annexation, Iran sanctions, weapons? What Israel may ask of Trump as he leaves
Obama allowed a UN Security Council resolution slamming settlements to pass when he was a lame duck; by contrast, Jerusalem is hoping for farewell gifts from the outgoing president
By Raphael Ahren
US ambassador Samantha Power signals her country’s abstention in the Security Council vote on Resolution 2334, December 23, 2016 (UN Photo/Evan Schneider)
January 2, 2020, 11:40 pm
Why doesn’t the US try to repeal the UN’s anti-settlements resolution?
Washington no longer considers settlements illegal and vows to fight anti-Israel bias in international fora, but 3 years on, Security Council Resolution 2334 stands unchallenged
By Raphael Ahren
In this photo from January 1, 2019, men work on a new housing project in the West Bank settlement of Modin Illit. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
December 19, 2019, 1:58 am
UN: Israel has advanced 22,000 housing units since 2016 anti-settlement measure
Head of world body says settlements have ‘no legal effect’ following Trump administration announcement that it doesn’t necessarily consider Israeli communities West Bank illegal
By Edith M. Lederer
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, November 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
November 19, 2019, 3:23 pm
Pompeo’s settlements speech: Empty rhetoric or prelude to annexation?
Experts say new US policy less dramatic than it sounds as it simply reinstates Reagan-era ambiguity on settlements’ legal status. Others warn it prejudges final status of West Bank
By Raphael Ahren
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Fourth National Forum for the Fourth Industrial Revolution during the forum's opening session in the West Bank city of Ramallah, September 9, 2019. (Nasser Nasser/AP)
November 19, 2019, 1:13 am
Palestinians slam US for declaring settlements not illegal
Abbas’s spokesman says announcement is ‘baseless, unacceptable and condemned’; Hamas states Palestinian people will continue ‘its struggle until settlements are swept away’
By Adam Rasgon
PA President Mahmoud Abbas speaking at a Christmas Eve dinner in Bethlehem, December 24, 2019. (Wafa)
December 25, 2018, 12:49 am
Abbas: We want America’s friendship, but it must deal with us justly
Palestinian leader calls on Trump to ‘implement’ UN Security Council resolution that deemed settlements illegal during waning days of Obama presidency
By ToI Staff
A photograph of the construction work being done for a new neighborhood in the Ma'ale Amos settlement on June 18, 2017. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
December 19, 2018, 9:17 pm
UN envoy notes drop in settlement building, but more approvals expected
Nikolay Mladenov tells Security Council that last three months saw ‘lowest number of quarterly advancements’ in past two years, but numbers don’t include retroactive legalizations
By Jacob Magid
A woman stands holding a Palestinian flag with a cloth sack placed above her head before a barbed-wire fence and next to burning tires, during clashes following a demonstration near the border with Israel east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 8, 2018. (AFP/ SAID KHATIB)
June 18, 2018, 2:38 am
UN chief said to slam Israel, Liberman over Gaza in new report
Document mandated by Security Council Resolution 2334, blocked for months by US and not yet public, reportedly also condemns Hamas, accuses defense minister of inflaming situation
By ToI Staff
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the US embassy's new site in Jerusalem, May 30, 2018, posing ahead of a Times of Israel interview. (Matty Stern, US Embassy Jerusalem)
May 31, 2018, 2:17 pm
Ambassador David Friedman: Republicans support Israel more than Democrats
US envoy discusses Israel as a partisan cause, Trump’s peace plan, settlement legality, Palestinian refugees, and a pastor who invoked Jesus at the Jerusalem embassy opening
By Raphael Ahren and David Horovitz
Former US president Barack Obama at Temple Emanu-El in New York City on January 24, 2018. (Gili Getz/Facebook via JTA)
January 26, 2018, 8:35 pm
Obama: ‘Skyrocketing’ settlement means Palestinian state ‘almost impossible’
At NY synagogue, former president says accelerated building for Jews turning West Bank map into ‘Swiss cheese’; that’s why he didn’t veto UN anti-settlement resolution
By ToI Staff and JTA
This file photo taken on January 31, 2017 shows then national security adviser General Mike Flynn (L), Senior Advisor Jared Kushner (2L) and US President Donald Trump (R) at the beginning of a meeting on cyber security at the White House. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
January 5, 2018, 11:42 pm
Report details bid by Trump transition team to derail UN anti-Israel resolution
Wall Street Journal says push by Flynn, Kushner and Haley to convince Obama administration to veto measure came at behest of Israel
By JTA
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner attends a bilateral meeting with China's President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Thomas Peter)
December 2, 2017, 4:19 am
Kushner reportedly told Flynn to contact Russians over anti-Israel UN resolution
The quickly deposed ex-White House adviser has admitted to lying to the FBI over his contacts with Kremlin officials during Trump administration transition
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to US President Donald Trump, arrives for a plea hearing at the Prettyman Federal Courthouse on December 1, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
December 1, 2017, 6:54 pm
Flynn charged with lying about bid to stop anti-Israel UN resolution
Ex-national security adviser pleads guilty to charge of making false statements to FBI, including on effort to sway Russian vote on settlements
By JTA
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a news briefing at the White House, in Washington, September 15, 2017. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
November 5, 2017, 11:03 am
Nikki Haley: Unless UN rights council reforms, US is out
In speech to Israeli Americans rapping the UN, American envoy says she won’t allow repeat of Obama’s ‘betrayal’ of Israel
By Ron Kampeas
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