Is it really fair to say the UN is anti-Israel?

Topics on the UN News Centre page reflect a single focus on the Mideast, the Palestinian Authority. (Snips from UN page)President Barack Obama’s recent trip to Israel has directed attention to the troubled Middle East. Despite half a century of negotiations, the United Nations has yet to see an agreement both Israel and the Palestinian Authority will accept.

At present many supporters of Israel perceive the UN as having an anti-Israel bias. Is that perception really fair?

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Low expectations for Obama’s Israel trip, with Iron Dome and PA prisoners on agenda

Map: CIA World Fact BookPresident Barack Obama has met with both Jewish and Arab-American leaders in the U.S. ahead of his planned visit to Israel. The president will reportedly travel there between March 20-22.

Obama is expected to hold a joint press conference with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama will also meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

On the agenda are a look at the Iron Dome system and the status of Palestinian prisoners.

Most pundits have expressed low expectations for the trip.

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Not a ceasefire, but a “Hudna” for Palestinian Statehood

By Kerry Patton

Living under constant threats of rocket attacks, Israel launched “Operation Pillar Defense” on November 14. Approximately seven days later on November 21, a ceasefire was established temporarily ending the violence in Gaza and throughout other locations inside Israel. 

Terrorists from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al Aqsa Martyr Brigades, Fatah, and others launched well over 1,363 rockets into Israel. This was a joint endeavor fueled by political aspirations seeking statehood.

Calling the action to end violence in Israel a “ceasefire” is a mistake. This action should be declared a "Hudna"—a temporary disruption or “calm.”

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Libya, still struggling with militias and assassinations, announces ‘full solidarity’ with Palestinians

Outlawed militias continue to be a problem in Libya, as evidenced by the assassination of Col. Faraj Mohammed Idris Drissi, the head of Benghazi’s security directorate.

The Libya Herald, a daily newspaper in English, blamed “outlaws of armed brigades” for the assassination while the Associated Press blamed "Islamic extremists."

The Herald said Drissi was the 18^th senior security official murdered in Benghazi in 2012.

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For Democrats, a Judeo-Christian reset

Updated on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 6:14PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Democrats tweaked their reset on Wednesday. Please see the followup below this article.

 Jerusalem at Night. (Photo: CIA World Factbook/U.S. Government)As Democrats got their convention underway in Charlotte, a media blitz ensued after reporters noticed the omission of the words God and Jerusalem from the official party platform.

This came as no surprise to many of us. After all, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) had been the target of vicious attacks by the Left simply because of her evangelical Christian beliefs.

From the president’s longtime devotion to a fire and brimstone preacher some perceive as anti-white and anti-Semitic to one of his first controversial decisions after taking office, Democrats have in effect initiated a Judeo-Christian reset.

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Media crits Romney’s trip abroad, overlooked Obama’s failures

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was very well received when he visited Israel. (Photo: Mitt Romney campaign)Predictably, traditional media found fault with some aspects of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s trip abroad.

It almost goes without saying: Republican messaging ahead of November must consistently remind the public media will always favor a Democrat regardless of reality.

A recent example is occurring now, with U.S. Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta’s trip to Israel.

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Breitbart dangles $50 thousand reward for Khalidi-Obama video

Header at Breitbart News offering reward for Khalidi-Obama video. (Screen snip: Breitbart news)Breitbart News is dangling a $50 thousand reward for a video:

[To the person who] can provide the complete video recording of the 2003 farewell party for radical Palestinian academic and activist Rashid Khalidi, at which then-state senator Barack Obama spoke--and which The Los Angeles Times has refused to release since reporting the event in April 2008.

Khalidi and his wife were frequent dinner companions of the president before he won the White House. President Obama's association with Khalidi has sparked controversy downplayed by sympathetic media.

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