Author: David Singer

UNESCO’s deficit has skyrocketed from an estimated $120 million to $167 million for 2012-2013 as a result of its decision to admit Palestine as its 195th member in breach of UNESCO’s own Constitution.

UNESCO has paid a high price for hoisting the flag of “Palestine” among the 194 other flags flying at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters this week.

I don’t think there has ever been any Arab propaganda slogan as powerful and successful as “End The Occupation”.

Palestinian Authority President – Mahmoud Abbas – is inviting political suicide and an end to the two-state solution – should his planned meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Mashal in Cairo this comng Friday lead to the creation of a new …

The decision to admit Palestine has come at great financial cost to UNESCO and has threatened the abandonment or postponement of many of its worthy and worthwhile programs.

Amid all the hogwash that passes for political commentary – it is apparent that the 15 members of the Security Council are facing a huge dilemma in deciding whether to recommend the admission of Palestine to the United Nations …

The PLO application seeking admission of Palestine to the UN has been dealt a serious blow – after 86 of its 193 members failed to support a mirror application for Palestine to join UNESCO.

Two significant – yet seemingly unrelated – events have occurred during the past week within the ongoing Jewish-Arab conflict:

France’s President – Nicolas Sarkozy – has made a mistake of historic proportions – possibly dashing any hope of the two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs coming to fruition – after he told the French magazine Le …

As the United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly continue to consider the PLO application for the State of Palestine to be admitted as the 194th member of the UN – there is concern in Jordan that …

The appearance of Mahmoud Abbas at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September was reportedly met with “rapturous applause” by those present to witness this latest farce in the ongoing efforts to create a …

Israel’s Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu – has announced his intention to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week in connection with the proposed application by the PLO for recognition of a Palestinian Arab State along …

The expulsion of Israel’s ambassador from Turkey and the forced withdrawal of Israel’s entire diplomatic corps from Egypt have become the catalysts to ensure further virulent assaults on the Jewish people at the Durban 111 Conference on Racism to be …

Two of the many intriguing matters facing the United Nations in dealing with any proposal to seek recognition of a Palestinian Arab State along the 1967 lines – are:

The horrendous news of the bombing of the UN headquarters in Nigeria’s capital – Abuja – reportedly by a radical Islamist group – killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 60 other persons – has been rightly described …