Following increasingly violent, disorderly and antisemitic protests, Columbia leadership said that the events “have left us no choice.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls the measure against the IDF’s haredi battalion Netzah Yehuda “the height of absurdity and a moral low.”
“Hamas—a terrorist organization—is currently exerting power and influence in Gaza,” said US envoy Robert Wood, explaining why the Palestinians don’t meet the definition of statehood.
Israel’s UN envoy said his warnings on Iran had gone unheeded: Israel “was trying to wake the world up to the dangers posed by Iran and Its proxies.”
The United States is expected to block the revived 2011 application: “Our position has not changed,” said Washington’s deputy ambassador.
“Hamas can scream these numbers all they want, but it makes them no truer than if they were to repeatedly scream the earth was flat.”
“What the hell is the point of the UN or the UN Security Council?” an Associated Press reporter asked at a US State Department briefing.
Despite supposed reforms, PA teaching materials instruct that “equality between women and men is a biological lie.”
Phillipe Lazzarini, who heads the UN agency, told reporters that “many” of the 16 countries that suspended aid “would like to come back.”
The report comes in the wake of Israeli fury over the lack of UN action on accusations of Hamas’s sexual violence.