Srebrenica

October 23, 2024 | Enia Krivine, Ben Cohen

Israel Shouldn’t Suffer from the UN’s Failure in Lebanon

Had UNIFIL carried out its mandate, many, if not most, of Israeli operations in Lebanon would not be necessary.

April 11, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Biden, like Obama, talks tough but does little about Putin’s war crimes

Will President Joe Biden’s cri de coeur “Putin is a war criminal” become former President Barack Obama’s “Assad must go?” Lofty words; noble intentions, for sure. But Obama came and went....

December 21, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The sorrow and the pity in Syria

Over the last five years, Syria has been descending into a hell on Earth. Over the last four months, the lowest depths of the...

June 22, 2016 | John Cappello |

Reconsidering safe zones in Syria

The situation in Syria remains bleak, with no end in sight to its five-year civil war. President Bashar Assad’s forces and their Russian and Iranian backers continue to lay waste to rebel-h...

October 15, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

The Death of R2P

Remember R2P? Not to be confused with R2-D2 (a robotic character in the Star Wars movies), “Responsibility to Protect” was an international “norm” proposed by UN...

April 30, 2013 | |

America’s Inexcusable Inaction

In Syria, we are letting Assad slaughter at will

August 29, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Ban Ki-moon Over Tehran

Proof – as if more were needed – that the UN is broken beyond repair.

August 3, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Cost of Kofi

Kofi Annan resigned yesterday as the United Nations-Arab League Envoy to Syria after failing to bring an end to the internecine violence that has been raging in Syria since last spring....

August 2, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

After the Fall

When the Assad regime ends, will a new slaughter begin?

June 28, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

Saving Syria from Kofi Annan

Some headlines seem designed to invite a one-word rejoinder, and so it is with a recent article on Slate:...

April 9, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer |

It’s Time to Add Syria to Kofi Annan’s Long List of Failures

It should have raised red flags when both Syria and Russia approved of Kofi Annan’s February 23 appointment as the Uni...

October 31, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Standpoint

Empty Gestures

Trying to explain the growing chasm between Israel and Europe, the British journalist and author Anatol Lieven wrote in 2004: "For equally valid and legitimate reasons, Western Europe and parts o...

April 3, 2006 | |

How Corrupt is the United Nations?

Recent years have brought a cascade of scandals at the United Nations, of which the wholesale corruption of the Oil-for-Food relief program in Iraq has been only the most visible. We still do not...

February 2, 2005 | Clifford D. May FrontPageMagazine |

U.N. Follies

You Couldn't Make This Stuff Up

September 22, 2003 | Clifford D. May |

No Excuses

Speaking at the United Nations on Tuesday, President Bush wasted no time and minced no words. The world today, he said, faces "an unfinished war." That war is being fought in such places as Baghd...