Middle East Update

The European Union on Tuesday August 21, announced it would resume payments to Israeli companies for fuel supplies provided to Gaza power stations that generate electricity for the crowded coastal Strip.

Polish Members of the European Parliament have decided to boycott an upcoming conference in Brussels of United Nations NGOs organized by the UN Committee on the “Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People,” stating the agenda of the conference is anti-Israel. Polish MEP Bronislaw Geremek said, “I saw the materials prepared by the [...]

Russia on Saturday July 14, suspended its participation in a key European arms control treaty that governs deployment of troops on the continent, the Kremlin said, a move that threatened to further aggravate Moscow’s already tense relations with the West.

Manfred Gerstenfeld (Jerusalem Post)
In 2001 the Dutch Roman Catholic NGO Cordaid, which is subsidized by the Dutch government, was indirectly involved in financing the largest anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate campaign of the 21st century, the UN World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa. Recently it undertook another anti-Israel campaign jointly with Pax Christi, another [...]

More than four years after the fall of Baghdad, the United Nations is spending millions of dollars in Iraqi oil money to continue the hunt for Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction. (By Colum Lynch, The Washington Post)

Jim WolfThe U.S. House of Representatives has adopted a measure aimed at weaving closer U.S. and Israeli defenses against ballistic missiles of the type that could be fired by Iran. Part of a defense spending bill passed Thursday May 17, would redirect $205 million in Defense Department funds toward projects already underway in Israel. It [...]

The headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza City was reinforced and secured on Monday May 7, a day after armed Muslims attacked a UN-operated elementary school in Gaza, killing one man and wounding at least seven others. At the time of the violent attack, the school - located [...]

Olmert tells UN Sec. Gen he’s open to pan-Arab talks
The Arab-backed Saudi peace plan could be Israel’s last chance to live in a “sea of peace” from West Africa to Indonesia, and should not be squandered, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday March 27, on the eve of a two-day Arab League summit in [...]

A report on March 27 shows that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is rejecting new United Nations sanctions as illegal, according to IRNA, the state-run Iranian news agency.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has canceled a planned visit to the United Nations, and Tehran’s U.N. ambassador, Javad Zarif, on Friday March 23, blamed a delay in U.S. visas being issued to the crew of his airplane.