Lebanon is falling apart and has been for many years and many reasons. It has been bleeding a slow death by a thousand cuts. With the Aug. 4 explosion in Beirut, those wounds were suddenly visible.
Three successive election campaigns greatly undermined Israelis’ sense of political stability.
A United Nations humanitarian aid worker in Gaza used his position to provide material assistance to the terrorist efforts of Hamas, Israel’s Shin Bet security service said.
Israel said on Friday it had resolved its differences with the European Union after weeks of diplomatic tension following an EU decision not to allow goods produced in settlements in the West Bank to be labeled \”Made in Israel\”.
Palestinian officials said they want to “keep the hope alive and keep the two-state solution alive” through new efforts at the United Nations.
Then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan once acknowledged that the United Nations “rose from the ashes of the Holocaust” to save the remnants of European Jewry and provide the Jewish people with an opportunity to fulfill their age-old aspirations through the new nation state of Israel.
Israel on Tuesday complained to the United Nations about a Palestinian initiative to fly their flag alongside full member states\’ at the world body\’s headquarters, calling it \”another cynical misuse of the U.N. by the Palestinian Authority.\”
Israel disputed on Monday the findings of a U.N. report that it may have committed war crimes in the 2014 Gaza conflict, saying its forces acted \”according to the highest international standards\”.
Israel on Monday accused a U.N. committee that oversees non-governmental organizations of granting U.N accreditation to an association that it said promotes \”anti-Israel propaganda in Europe\” and is linked to the militant Palestinian group Hamas.
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