Kofi Annan, on August 2, resigned as joint special envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, effective as of the end of the month. He had been assigned the difficult task — a “mission impossible,” as he himself put it — of negotiating a peaceful solution to the current crisis in […]
Per Obama’s proclamation last week, yesterday was United Nations Day. So I’ll take the opportunity to respond to fellow blogger, Ben Moscovitch, of FPA’s Israel blog, who wrote: “does that moniker then also make it anti-Israel day”? Moscovitch, like many others, misreads the nature of the UN’s bias. Moscovitch criticizes the UN because it “considers […]