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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz is slated to discuss the issue in meetings at the United Nations with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres and U.S. ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
The Israeli defense minister is scheduled to meet with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres and U.S. ambassador to the international body Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
Andrew Weinstein, a Florida-based attorney who focuses on civil litigation, serves as chairman of the Lawyers Council for the Democratic National Committee.
Gilad Erdan’s main fight at the world body has been seeking to draw member states’ hyper focus away from the minutiae of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and towards Iran.
A pro-Israel advocacy group warns of potential peril of an U.N. agency’s funding by organizations linked to Hamas and Al-Qaeda.
“Palestine is obliged to abolish executions,” says a spokesperson for the United Nations human-rights commissioner, citing concern the terror group may not have met “international fair trial standards.”
Israel has repeatedly accused the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah of preventing agency peacekeepers from carrying out their mandate.
Peacekeepers are increasingly blocked from monitoring the border area, according to the United States.
A Security Council meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict also dealt with UNRWA’s funding shortfall and Israel’s closure of terror-linked Palestinian NGOs.
Ramallah has attempted several times since then to secure full membership but has failed to get the Security Council to even hold a vote, which requires the support of nine of the 15 members.
“The fact of the matter is, there is very little appetite in the Security Council to support this move,” says the CEO of the International Legal Forum.
Ramallah’s envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour confirmed the prospective move, arguing that it would “save the two-state solution” and perhaps even “help Israel by waking up its leaders to hold negotiations.”
