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Flags of member nations flying at United Nations Headquarters. (photo: UN / Joao Araujo Pinto)

European fickleness ahead of UN vote as immature as Israeli response

As I was witnessing how Israel lost European support last week ahead of the Palestinian statehood bid at the UNGA, I felt like it reminded me of something. But I couldn’t remember what. The day after the vote, it dawned on me. As I was watching my daughter play with her kindergarten friends during a…

By Ami Kaufman December 1, 2012

President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu (photo: Pete Souza / white house)

Post-UN bid, anybody still think Obama is going to ‘save Israel from itself’?

Since winning reelection, Obama has championed Netanyahu’s war in Gaza and rejectionism in the UN. Enough illusions about this U.S. administration. It’s hard to see how Mitt Romney could have been any more pro-occupation or anti-Palestinian than Obama’s been since getting reelected three and a half weeks ago. (That’s all it was!) First Rashid Khalidi’s…

By Larry Derfner November 30, 2012