Posts Tagged: Obama UN
Why Does Obama Continue to Support the UN Human Rights Council?
Reforming United Nations institutions is often a fool’s errand. Yet, the Obama administration chooses to draw no lessons from its attempt to improve the UN...
Obama Toys With Cutting Israel Adrift in the Security Council
Immediately after Israel's March 17 election, Obama administration officials threatened to allow (or even encourage) the U.N. Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state and...
Obama at the UN: America on the Decline
As he waited in the wings at the United Nations, President Obama was struck with this sledgehammer from Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff: Tampering... in the affairs...
Obama at the UN: New Policy or Same Old Mistakes?
U.S. President Barack Obama reintroduced his New Middle East vision during his September 25, 2013 speech at the U.N. General Assembly: "Let me take this...
Obama Presses Abbas on Final Status Issues
JTA - President Obama urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to advance to final status issues in his peace talks with Israel. "He encouraged President Abbas,...
Obama Tells UN That Secretary of State Kerry Will Open Direct Talks With Iran
U.S. President Barack Obama told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that aside from the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iranian nuclear issue is atop...
Obama Calls Denial of Syrian Regime’s Chemical Weapon Use an ‘Insult to Human Reason’
U.S. President Barack Obama criticized members of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday for not taking a greater role in stopping the bloodshed in Syria,...
Obama at UN: ‘Israel is Here to Stay’
U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, chastising the international institution for the bias it exhibits towards the Jewish state...
Can We Really Negotiate With Iran?
JNS.org - From the brink of war, the Middle East has moved at dizzying speed to the cusp of peace. Or so we are...
America’s New Isolationists Are Endangering the West
The spectre of isolationism is stalking the Republican Party. It is still far from dominant, but we would be ignoring reality to underestimate...
Does Obama Have Israel’s Back or Just the UN’s?
 The UN's top human rights body ended its latest session in Geneva on Friday by dealing a body blow to one of President Obama's signature...
