Tag: Palestine

Here’s a list of all member states’ votes on the Palestine issue. Picture courtesy of the President of the General Assembly. 

Click the photo to learn more! Also today, the UN General Assembly votes on Palestine’s non-member state status! Interesting day ahead…

thepoliticalnotebook: Ominous tweet from CNN’s Ben Wedeman, leaving after reporting on the eight day conflict in Gaza. [Twitter]

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 (via Hamas blames Israel for ‘delay’ of truce deal – Middle East – Al Jazeera English) Hamas says a Gaza ceasefire agreement is being “held up” by Israelis, who have yet to confirm that a deal is imminent. The United Nations Security Council, meanwhile, is due to hold a session on the crisis in Gaza on Wednesday at 15:00 GMT. (Source: http://c.brightcove.com/)

United Nations News Centre – UN Secretary-General calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire by all sides “My message is clear: all sides must stop fire,” Mr. Ban said during his press conference with [Egyptian Prime Minister] Mr. Qandil. “Further escalating the situation will only result in more tragedy, and puts the entire region at risk. That is why a ground operation must be avoided. That is why it is urgent to contain the present crisis.”

I know I am very late with this, but I wanted to cover the rest of the general debate same as I did with the first day, and then I wanted to do it properly, so at last I decided not to post it in pieces. That’s why this is going to be a long one.  So, my thoughts on the general debate part 2 as follows.  Whether Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heeded the Secretary General’s warning or this speech was the original plan anyway, I – someone who expected nothing but the worst from him – thought he moderated…

Court Rejects Palestinians in Their Bid for a Tribunal For the Palestinian Authority, which had sought an investigation of an Israeli military offensive, the ruling was a setback to its effort to gain international recognition as a state. Maybe it is just interesting for me, since I am planning to write a study about the ICC. But yet it’s interesting.