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Archive for January 19th, 2011

EU Ambassador in Jerusalem Post: Gerald Steinberg is a Liar

Posted in Free speech, Hasbara, human rights, Israel, tagged , , , , on January 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The following letter appeared in the Jerusalem Post of January 19. Please share with anyone gullible enough to believe that NGO Monitor has even the slightest shred of credibility. Sir, – Gerald Steinberg, in “Europe needs a parliamentary inquiry on NGO funding” (Comment & Features, January 10), claimed that the European Union “blatantly violates the [...]

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Americans Support Anti-Settlement UN Resolution, Part II

Posted in Academics, Barack Obama, Israel, Palestine, Settlements, United Nations, United States, West Bank, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »

In Part I of this post, we saw the difficulty the State Department spokesman is having explaining how the Obama Administration can even consider vetoing a UN resolution that is so obviously in line with US policy. The letter below was signed by a very impressive list of DC veterans, including former ambassadors to Israel [...]

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Americans Support Anti-Settlement UN Resolution, Part I

Posted in Barack Obama, Israel, Palestine, Settlements, United Nations, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Many of my readers are probably aware that the Palestinians have been working to bring a resolution to the UN Security Council that would reaffirm the obvious fact that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. The Obama Administration is hemming and hawing about the resolution, obviously uncomfortable with it but unable to explain why [...]

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