Tag: United Nations

Retired consultant, avid biography reader and meditator

| January 8, 2018

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When Trump first started to campaign, his statements about the Israel-Palestinian conflict were contradictory and unclear. I think he was trying to find his footing on this complicated and controversial subject. If we look at the journey we’ve all taken with him, we might draw some interesting projections about the future. I’d like to reflect on some of the highlights of his candidacy and his time as President regarding his actions on Israel and the Palestinians.

During his candidacy, he told the Republican National Convention regarding the peace process, “I alone can fix it.” But The Atlantic pointed out:

More Blatant Hypocrisy from the Arab States in the UN

By Brian Watt

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Brian Watt is a humorist, writer and author of The Man In Lafayette Park (available for Kindle and from Apple iBooks and Nook). He lives in California with his special needs son and especially needy tabby cat. For over 30 years he has carved out a career in marketing as a writer, designer and creative director, as well as a director of product management for various high-tech companies leading teams to bring hundreds of consumer electronic products to market that have generated hundreds of mill… [more]

| December 29, 2017

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Hillel Neuer emphatically points out the hypocrisy of the Arab states in the UN that claim Israel is guilty of maintaining an apartheid state.

Nikki Haley Is Making a List…

By Clifford A. Brown

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Retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 30 years of active and reserve assignments. M.A. Political Science, M.S. Strategic Studies, Army War College, JD. Served in 1st Armored Division in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea during the regime of Kim Il Sung, and commanded a logistics battalion in Iraq 2003-2004. Wide-ranging public policy interests. Occasional home brewer and infuser of alcohol spirits.

| December 21, 2017

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In the spirit of the season, and I mean Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s Day, our Ambassador to the UN warned every other nation’s delegation that…

She’s making a list.

By Dave Sussman

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Dad, small business advocate, consultant, speaker for SBA/SCORE and other business groups. Writes on business issues including regulations, restructuring and capital acquisition. Published articles include The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and others. Featured on programs including Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNNfn, and interviewed on various radio shows throughout North America. Purveyor at Whiskey Politics where we have conversations with fascinating luminaries and newsmakers from… [more]

| September 23, 2017

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John O’Sullivan joins Whiskey Politics and generously covers many issues, starting with O’Sullivan’s Law: “All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.” We discuss Trump’s UN speech, North Korea (#Dotard!), William F. Buckley, today’s National Review and those opposing Trump, Europe in the age of Trump, why the conservative Australian model for immigration works, the worldwide attacks on free speech, and should Google and Facebook be nationalized?

John is a former editor at National Review and since been editor-at-large at National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute. He is also president of the Danube Institute, a think tank devoted to promoting conservative and classical liberal ideas in Budapest, from where we had a fascinating discussion earlier this year with the Deputy Director and John’s better half, Melissa O’Sullivan. John also serves as director of 21st Century Initiatives in Washington DC. For decades John has been read, seen, and heard across the media and served as Editor or Editor-in-Chief at many publications including The Times (London), Daily Telegraph, New York Post editorial, and others.

Bill Kristol talks with Eric Felten about Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations.

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The Speech Heard Round the World

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| September 22, 2017

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President Trump’s first address to the UN could have been called The Gathering Storm, the title of Winston Churchill’s 1948 book. While many separate elements of the speech hit on the challenges of our day and time, taken together, there was thunder, wind, and warning combined with hope. Trump first thanked those who have supported our country’s hurricane recovery efforts and mentioned record job creation, market growth and drop in unemployment, then got down to message. “We live in a time of extraordinary opportunity, potential waiting to be unleashed. Yet, we meet at a time of both immense promise and great peril.”

Military Strength – One of Trump’s first statements (which he reiterates in all his speeches), was sending a message to those present, and especially to those not present, namely Russia, China and North Korea, whose delegation walked out, that he is restoring and upgrading our defenses, which were reduced under Obama — Peace through strength.

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America cheer U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley for leading another round of sanctions aimed at North Korea in response to another nuclear test. They also groan as the Democrat running for governor in Virginia implies that voting her him will give kids there a better chance for success and Jim slams any politician who promises that electing them will solve everyone’s problems. And they discuss Jim Carrey’s on-air castigation of New York Fashion Week as meaningless, leading Jim to reveal tales of how the recent National Review cruise shared the ship with a lot of people connected to this superficial event.

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On this AEI Events Podcast, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley outlined some of the Trump administration’s key considerations in assessing Iranian compliance – an important matter given that next month, President Trump will need to announce whether he finds Iran complying with the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, better known as the Iran deal.

US law requires the president to certify every 90 days not only that Iran has not materially breached the deal but also that suspending sanctions against Tehran is appropriate and proportionate to Tehran’s behavior and is vital to US national security interests. Therefore, even if Iran has not surpassed the nuclear deal’s limit on uranium enrichment, the Trump administration could decide not to certify the deal if it violates one of the latter requirements. In such a scenario, Ambassador Haley emphasized that Congress would then have 60 days to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on Iran.

In this series of AEI Events Podcasts, AEI’s Nicholas Eberstadt hosts experts and senior officials engaged in the development of human rights in North Korea to commemorate the third anniversary of the “Report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.” They propose an expert update on the human rights situation in North Korea and discuss how Washington and its allies in the region can seek to improve it.

This AEI Events Podcast features Justice Michael Kirby, former chief of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea, discussing international law with AEI’s Nicholas Eberstadt. They discuss the mechanisms available under international law to hold the Kim regime accountable.

By Victor Tango Kilo

| June 13, 2017

The UN is working on laws to make it illegal for white people to partake in the cultures of non-white people. Since it began in 2001, the committee has been working on creating and finishing three pieces of international law that would expand intellectual-property regulations to protect things like Indigenous designs, dances, words and traditional […]

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Nikki Haley: Pushing Back Hard on the UN

By Susan Quinn

Retired consultant, avid biography reader and meditator

| April 16, 2017

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The United Nations is not on my list of favorite organizations. In fact, I’ve written an OP about leaving, if not disbanding, the institution. But now that Nikki Haley is the US ambassador to the United Nations, I’m having second thoughts.

In her short time in the UN, she has already ruffled some feathers. She’s proposed making cuts in key areas—“Everybody knows there’s fat at the UN. Everybody knows there’s fat in the peacekeeping missions. So that’s why we’re taking [a review of] each one.”

By Susan Quinn

Retired consultant, avid biography reader and meditator

| February 28, 2017

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Please note that I wrote get rid of, not just get out of, the United Nations. Yes, I know we’ve talked about making this move for years, but it’s way past due to act. Let’s do a quick review of this feckless and inconsequential organization. Since many people have written so cogently on this topic, I have let them speak for me to a great extent.

To provide background, the U.N. was formed after World War II:

A Dissenting Voice

By Front Seat Cat

| February 27, 2017

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By Gil Reich

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I'm the author of If You Write My Story which helps kids deal with death and mourning. I'm a data analyst at Wix. I was a founding member and VP of Product Management at Answers.com. I was born in Staten Island. For the past twenty five years I've lived in Eli, a community about a half-hour north of Jerusalem. I have a beautiful wife, three wonderful, grown children, a wonderful daughter-in-law and a gorgeous grandson.

| December 24, 2016

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Chanukah is the celebration of dissidents defeating well-meaning globalist universalist intolerant fundamentalists. It’s a particularist Jewish holiday, but the first two modern Chanukah images that came to mind were Christian bakers and the Little Sisters of the Poor. More

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Obama May Sign Israel’s Death Warrant

By Susan Quinn

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Retired consultant, avid biography reader and meditator

| October 30, 2016

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Netanyahu obama israel For the past eight years, President Obama has insulted, denigrated, criticized and condemned Israel and its leaders. By taking these steps, he has alienated our best Western ally in the Middle East. In his 2015, as the Free Beacon reported, Michael Oren listed the many ways that Obama and his administration damaged the US relationship with Israel.

But it appears that Obama isn’t finished. He may be planning a final blow against Israel as part of his legacy. In his syndicated weekly column in National Review, Charles Krauthammer cites John Hannah of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who believes that Obama may go to the UN to force a two-state solution on Israel. (Hannah’s article is behind a fire wall.)

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| September 15, 2016

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According to one study, Israel is the only country to ever be referred to as an ‘occupying power’ at the UN. Russia in Crimea? Nope. More

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Live-stream Today: A “Climate Realist” Briefing on COP-21 in Paris

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