World in Focus: Sputnik’s Daily Current Affairs Program
After running on a campaign that in part promised to support the expansion of Israeli settlements and move the US embassy from the Israeli capital of Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, President Trump seems to be changing his mind on his approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
World in Focus: Sputnik’s Daily Current Affairs Program
An appeals court hears arguments to decide whether Trump’s travel ban should be re-instated and the PLO threatens to cease recognition of Israel in the event that the US moves its embassy to Jerusalem.
US Threatens to Penalize Allies on UN Voting
The United States and most Western donors have traditionally exercised their financial clout to threaten developing nations who refuse to fall in line on critical UN voting either in the Security Council, the General Assembly or the Human Rights Council.
Stop glossing over the siege in Gaza and call it what it is: Genocide
Just as there has been a discursive shift to call the occupation of Palestine an apartheid, we must acknowledge what is really happening in Gaza
Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem will strengthen the far right, and may also further isolate Israel
In a letter to president-elect Donald Trump, Palestinian National Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has laid out a warning in regards to moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa—as reported by Al Jazeera—Abbas argued that moving the embassy would have a “disastrous impact on the peace process, on the two-state solution and on the stability and security of the entire region”.
A symbolic resolution against Israeli settlements
Observers are divided on whether the recent UNSC resolution will lead to any substantive change.
Facing pressure from the right, Netanyahu supports ‘racist’ muezzin bill to appease settler base
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Heads for 50 Years of UN Failure
Come 2017, the United Nations will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the world’s longstanding unresolved political problems firmly entrenched on the UN agenda: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dating back to the Six Day War in June 1967.
Landmark Fatah congress becomes political battlefield
Mahmoud Abbas is likely to emerge from congress stronger, but divisions in ruling Fatah party have grown, experts say
