“That’s bad news for Iran much more than it’s bad news for the United States of America,” the vice president said.

The United Arab Emirates signaled it could join a push to secure the waterway against Iran, but most allies remain reluctant to intervene directly.

“Why are we to trust the UN’s own vetting procedures?” Adam Kaplan, of USAID, asked a congressional committee.

“We are now part of a process at the International Court of Justice initiated by Nicaragua,” Berlin said. “We have decided to focus on this process.”

“To the women of Iran: Your enemy is our enemy,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said.

“UNRWA is not part of the solution, but part of the problem,” said Uwe Becker, of the Christian Democratic Union.

Almost two-thirds of respondents to the YouGuv poll said they support a security arrangement with Israel, and less than 10% disapproved.

The German foreign minister said the special rapporteur for the Palestinians has become “untenable in her position.”

“In most countries, the only space where teachers receive any training, support or guidance on teaching about antisemitism is in history education, and in particular through Holocaust education,” UNESCO told JNS.

One US official intimated that Hamas “decommissioning” its heavy weapons rather than demilitarization could be option.