New UN Security Council president wants more focus on Israel-Palestinian conflict

 

New UN Security Council president wants more focus on Israel-Palestinian conflict

The UN Security Council’s new president, Norwegian Mona Juul, has said the council needs to “restore its focus” on the Israel-Palestinian conflict – something that will raise eyebrows among those already aware of the UN’s disproportionate singling out of Israel – and pledged that Norway will elevate discussions to a ministerial level on 19 January. Juul, Oslo’s permanent representative to the UN, denounced "unilateral actions" in the conflict and said she plans to invite Security Council members to a ‘mini-Oslo’ (a reference to the Oslo Accords) where they will discuss how best to address world peace. Click here to read Iranian powerlifter defects in Norway after refusing to wear t-shirt of terrorist Qasem Soleimani The decorated Iranian powerlifter Amir Assadollahzadeh is seeking asylum in Norway since his November defection to avoid execution or torture in the Islamic Republic of Iran for his refusal to sport a T-shirt of the late US and EU-designated terrorist, Qasem Soleimani. Click here to read Soleimani statue torched just hours after it was unveiled in western Iran Click here to read Jerusalem Post website hacked by pro-Iranian group on Soleimani death anniversary Israel’s Jerusalem Post had its website hacked by a pro-Iranian group on the anniversary of when the top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq. Former IDF cyber chief General Yaron Rosen said the hack was part of an influence operation timed to impact nuclear talks in Vienna. Click here to read