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June 13, 2024 | |

UN Equates Israel With Hamas in ‘Children in Armed Conflict’ Blacklist

The United Nations’ (UN) institutional bias against Israel was on display on June 13, as the Secretary-General’s annual report on children in armed conflict included the Jewish...

June 3, 2024 | David Adesnik |

How the UN Got Away With Wildly Inflating the Casualty Numbers in Gaza—and the Media Bought It

On May 6, a U.N. office reported that more than 9,500 women and 14,500 children had been killed so far in Gaza. The office had been reporting similar figures for nearly two months. Yet on May 8, the...

May 14, 2024 | David Adesnik |

Why the U.N.’s Gaza Casualty Figures Were So Off

The U.N. nearly halved its estimate of women and children killed in Gaza after relying on figures from Hamas-controlled organizations.

May 11, 2024 | |

UN Halves Its Estimate of Women and Children Killed in Gaza

The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revised its child fatality figure from the Gaza war sharply downward, reporting more than 14,500 deaths...

February 28, 2024 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Is Gaza Really the Biggest Case of Arab Suffering?

What would a Sudanese person watching that country’s renewed civil war — which has killed 14,000, displaced eight million, and threatens 17 million with famine in less than a year — think when...

February 5, 2024 | |

Egypt Threatens to Suspend Peace Treaty With Israel

Cairo threatened to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if civilians in Gaza are evacuated to Egypt, according to reports on February 5. “If even one Palestinian refugee crosses...

November 8, 2023 | |

Israel SitRep: Nov. 8, 2023

Netanyahu Reiterates: No Ceasefire Without Release of Hostages; Qatar-Mediated Deal on Ceasefire-Hostage Exchange Reported to be Underway | IDF: Israel Operating in the ‘Heart of Gaza’; Hamas Retains...

October 11, 2023 | |

Israeli Death Toll from Gaza Onslaught Hits 1,200

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February 16, 2022 | Richard Goldberg, David May

Investors Should Demand Transparency From ESG Research Firms

End-of-year data show that in 2021, investment surged in stocks rated positively by financial research firms on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria, which include an ever-growing list of...

January 10, 2022 | David Adesnik, K.M. Schaefer

Syria Faces Omicron Amid a Shortage of Vaccines

As in other countries, statistics do not convey the extent of the suffering.

July 17, 2020 | Toby Dershowitz, Talia Katz

Coronavirus: Arab countries, Palestinian and Israeli cooperation must be welcomed

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, good news is hard to come by. However, historical foes in the Middle East have teamed up to fight the virus, breaking taboos and opening up new areas of cooperation. Arab countries...

October 10, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

’We Believe in God and We Will Win in the End’

GAZIANTEP, Turkey – Scores of displaced refugees outside the small town of Kilis along the Syria-Turkey border discussed in late September their desire to oust President Bashar Assad, Israe...

January 16, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross The Globe and Mail

The War’s in Mali, But the Danger is International

Since France began aerial bombardment of Islamist rebels in Mali last week, the larger worry has shifted from within the beleaguered country’s borders to the wider world. There are concerns...

July 15, 2011 |

Somalia’s Drought, America’s Dilemma

How can the U.S. provide much-needed aid to a part of the world that is controlled by a terrorist group allied with al Qaeda?

June 13, 2011 | World Defense Review

What’s at Stake in Sudan’s Abyei

In this column space three months ago, I warned that the tensions were so heightened that the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which ended the decades of civil war between the Arab-domin...

May 17, 2010 | Bob Arotsky Pajamas Media

Hot Tips on UN Waste, Fraud and Abuse: U.S. Mission Posts Scores of UN Internal Reports

Hot tip for any reporters interested in newly disclosed documents on waste, fraud and abuse at the United Nations: Just days after I queried the U.S. Mission to the UN about its commitme...