Hearts and Minds With Palestine
2012-11-30
Advertisements In this week’s piece for Souciant, a rundown of some of the effects of the surprisingly impactful Palestinian victory at the UN General Assembly.Continue Reading
Israel, UK And US Fail To Get Palestinians To Withdraw Or Blunt UN Resolution
2012-11-28
Advertisements The vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the Palestinian application for non-member status is a foregone conclusion. They’re going to win and it’s not really going to matter much, at least in the short term. Nonetheless, the decidedly warped world of diplomacy around the Israel-Palestine conflict has managed toContinue Reading
Australian About Face Shows: The Times They Are a’Changin’
2012-11-28
Advertisements Australia has long been one of the countries that often, though not always, have voted in the United Nations General Assembly with the United States and Israel in votes overwhelmingly going against them. It had been made clear by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard that this would be theContinue Reading
The Draft Resolution the Palestinians Plan to Submit to the UNGA
2012-11-09
Advertisements Pasted below is the full text, as it currently stands, of the resolution the Palestinian Authority is planning to bring to the UN General Assembly, apparently on November 29. The resolution is extremely mild, calling for the State of Palestine to be accorded the same status in the GA as theContinue Reading
A Mock UNGA Resolution
2012-05-14
Advertisements For my International Law class (for those who don’t know, I’m working on my Master’s Degree at University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy), I was asked to write a UN resolution and a strategy for getting it adopted. I thought folks here might be interested in seeing what i cameContinue Reading