How the News Should Have Been Announced
Bin Laden’s death is great news, but the president, in his rush to claim credit, made a mistake in delivering it himself. Osama bin Laden was a pied piper of mass murder, and every effort should be...
View ArticleGoldstone Returns
Richard Goldstone doesn’t know when to quit. Two years ago, the South African former judge led a United Nations fact-finding inquiry into the Israel-Gaza conflict. The resulting report — widely dubbed...
View ArticleUNESCO Goes to Washington
UNESCO’s Bulgarian director general, Irina BokovaWhen the member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization voted last October to confer membership on the...
View ArticleThe Real Rules of the U.N. Human Rights Council
The good news is that genocide-tainted Sudan has withdrawn its bid to join the United Nations Human Rights Council, a move that suggests there may actually be some outer limits to the travesties of the...
View ArticleObama Out to Lunch at the U.N.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the U.N. General Assembly, September 27, 2012.At last week’s grand gathering of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, one of the Obama...
View ArticleThe U.N. Tilt to Terrorists
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonNowhere in the charter of the United Nations is there any mandate for the U.N. to stack the deck in favor of terrorists. Yet that is exactly the effect of the current...
View ArticleGame Plan for the UNESCO Shakedown
Alarm bells ought to be going off because of the quiet trip to Washington this week of the head of the Paris-based UNESCO — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. For at...
View ArticleThe U.N.’s Anti-Semitic Alliance
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip ErdoğanOn Wednesday, under the crystal chandeliers of Vienna’s ornate Hofberg Palace, the prime minister of Turkey delivered a speech in which he called Zionism “a...
View ArticleLet the French Pay for UNESCO
UNESCO headquarters in Paris, FranceHere comes the next chapter in perverse U.S. priorities at the United Nations. While the federal government has been pleading that it is too broke to provide White...
View ArticleHow the News Should Have Been Announced
Bin Laden’s death is great news, but the president, in his rush to claim credit, made a mistake in delivering it himself. Osama bin Laden was a pied piper of mass murder, and every effort should be...
View ArticleGoldstone Returns
Richard Goldstone doesn’t know when to quit. Two years ago, the South African former judge led a United Nations fact-finding inquiry into the Israel-Gaza conflict. The resulting report -- widely dubbed...
View ArticleUNESCO Goes to Washington
When the member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization voted last October to confer membership on the Palestinian Authority, they knew their decision would...
View ArticleThe Real Rules of the U.N. Human Rights Council
The good news is that genocide-tainted Sudan has withdrawn its bid to join the United Nations Human Rights Council, a move that suggests there may actually be some outer limits to the travesties of the...
View ArticleObama Out to Lunch at the U.N.
At last week’s grand gathering of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, one of the Obama administration’s worst fumbles was largely unreported by the U.S. media. It came during Israeli prime...
View ArticleForeign Policy as Alternative Universe
This was less a debate about foreign policy than a contest between alternative versions of reality. President Obama described a world in which America is stronger now than when he came into office; a...
View ArticleThe U.N. Tilt to Terrorists
Nowhere in the charter of the United Nations is there any mandate for the U.N. to stack the deck in favor of terrorists. Yet that is exactly the effect of the current U.N. furor over conflict between...
View ArticleGame Plan for the UNESCO Shakedown
Alarm bells ought to be going off because of the quiet trip to Washington this week of the head of the Paris-based UNESCO -- the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. For at...
View ArticleThe U.N.’s Anti-Semitic Alliance
On Wednesday, under the crystal chandeliers of Vienna’s ornate Hofberg Palace, the prime minister of Turkey delivered a speech in which he called Zionism “a crime against humanity” -- equating it with...
View ArticleLet the French Pay for UNESCO
Here comes the next chapter in perverse U.S. priorities at the United Nations. While the federal government has been pleading that it is too broke to provide White House tours or pay air-traffic...
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