UN Recognizes Palestine Mideast Peace UN Recognizes Palestine Richard Silverstein November 30, 2012 Haaretz’s headline said it all: Israel Suffers Humiliating Defeat in UN Vote. Palestine has won a victory,... Read More Read more about UN Recognizes Palestine
France, Britain, Columbia, Bosnia to Abstain on Palestinian Statehood Vote Mideast Peace Politics & Society France, Britain, Columbia, Bosnia to Abstain on Palestinian Statehood Vote Richard Silverstein November 5, 2011 Most people concerned with the UN Secuity Council’s upcoming vote on Palestinian statehood have been focussing on... Read More Read more about France, Britain, Columbia, Bosnia to Abstain on Palestinian Statehood Vote
State Department Flack Tacitly Concedes U.S. Opposition to Palestinian UNESCO Membership Stems From Protecting Israel Mideast Peace State Department Flack Tacitly Concedes U.S. Opposition to Palestinian UNESCO Membership Stems From Protecting Israel Richard Silverstein October 31, 2011 IMPORTANT: I urge all my readers to make as generous a gift as you can to UNESCO to... Read More Read more about State Department Flack Tacitly Concedes U.S. Opposition to Palestinian UNESCO Membership Stems From Protecting Israel
Will U.S. Destroy UNESCO to Stop Palestinian State? Mideast Peace Politics & Society Will U.S. Destroy UNESCO to Stop Palestinian State? Richard Silverstein October 23, 2011 Palestine, UNESCO, and the U.S. are on a collision course. It will be instructive to see which... Read More Read more about Will U.S. Destroy UNESCO to Stop Palestinian State?
Maariv on Palestine Statehood Vote: “We Lost Gabon” Mideast Peace Politics & Society Maariv on Palestine Statehood Vote: “We Lost Gabon” Richard Silverstein October 22, 2011 With a headline that reminded me of the old Republican 1950s smear–“Who lost China“–Maariv’s headline today (h/t Didi... Read More Read more about Maariv on Palestine Statehood Vote: “We Lost Gabon”
UN Security Council to Vote November 11th on Palestinian Statehood Mideast Peace Politics & Society UN Security Council to Vote November 11th on Palestinian Statehood Richard Silverstein October 20, 2011 Reuters is reporting that western diplomats say the UN Security Council will vote on November 11th on... Read More Read more about UN Security Council to Vote November 11th on Palestinian Statehood
Hamas Leader, Meshaal, Praises Abbas’ UN Bid for Statehood Mideast Peace Hamas Leader, Meshaal, Praises Abbas’ UN Bid for Statehood Richard Silverstein October 2, 2011 Hamas’s chief leader, Khaled Meshaal delivered a major address (Farsi) at a Palestine conference in Iran yesterday which... Read More Read more about Hamas Leader, Meshaal, Praises Abbas’ UN Bid for Statehood
Bibi: Tom Friedman and Bill Clinton, Great Satans Mideast Peace Bibi: Tom Friedman and Bill Clinton, Great Satans Richard Silverstein September 24, 2011 As I mentioned in an earlier post today, Mahmoud Abbas spoke of Palestine’s campaign for statehood as... Read More Read more about Bibi: Tom Friedman and Bill Clinton, Great Satans
70% of Israelis Endorse UN Acceptance of Palestinian State Mideast Peace 70% of Israelis Endorse UN Acceptance of Palestinian State Richard Silverstein September 23, 2011 The Truman Institute at the Hebrew University has done a poll of Israeli and Palestinian opinion about... Read More Read more about 70% of Israelis Endorse UN Acceptance of Palestinian State
Obama as Captain America, Saving Day for Israel Mideast Peace Politics & Society Obama as Captain America, Saving Day for Israel Richard Silverstein September 22, 2011 A Maariv cartoonist captures the shame of Barack Obama’s UN performance, at which he stood tall for... Read More Read more about Obama as Captain America, Saving Day for Israel
Obama: Dead Wrong on Palestine Mideast Peace Politics & Society Obama: Dead Wrong on Palestine Richard Silverstein September 21, 2011 Pres. Obama went before the UN today and delivered possibly the least credible, most irrelevant, and downright... Read More Read more about Obama: Dead Wrong on Palestine
BBC Poll: 45% of Americans Support Palestinian State Mideast Peace BBC Poll: 45% of Americans Support Palestinian State Richard Silverstein September 18, 2011 Despite the drumbeat of negativity heard virtually every day in the American media from the Obama-Clinton-Ross crowd,... Read More Read more about BBC Poll: 45% of Americans Support Palestinian State