In the 193-nation assembly, 188 countries voted for the nonbinding resolution, titled „Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.“

The meeting, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, is being convened in response to a request made by Jordan to Argentina‘s U.N. Ambassador Maria Cristina Perceval, president of the 15-nation Security Council this month.

Request, on behalf of Palestinians, comes after Israel announces settlement construction plan as violence in area escalates.

Rivlin was elected President of Israel (a largely ceremonial post with a seven year term) in June 2014. He is a one state guy who believes that Israel should annex the West Bank; he believes, as he must, that Palestinians and Jews should be able to live together.

Rivlin, it strikes me, is a man who realizes that distributing justice, economic privilege, and the rights of citizenship based on ethnic-majority status is a flimsy basis on which to establish a state. In the United States some of the descendants of white European settlers are still struggling to learn this lesson.

Iran has accused Turkey of prolonging the three-year conflict in neighboring Syria by insisting on President Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow and supporting “terrorist groups,” the official IRNA news agency has reported.

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein was questioning an edict from Defense Minister Moshe Ya‘alon, which would effectively bar thousands of Palestinian laborers travelling home to the West Bank from taking public buses with Israeli settlers, the Justice Ministry said on Tuesday.

Moskau verurteilt entschieden die gegen die Sicherheitskräfte Ägyptens begangenen Terrorüberfälle, und zwar unabhängig von den Motiven, von welchen sich ihre Initiatoren und Ausführenden leiten lassen. Wir erklären unsere Solidarität mit dem Bemühungen der politischen Führung der Arabischen Republik Ägypten und ihren Streitkräften bei ihrer Bekämpfung der Gefahr des Terrorismus und Radikalismus sowie auch unsere Unterstützung der auf die Stabilisierung der Lage im Land ausgerichteten Handlungen. Wir sprechen unser aufrichtiges Beileid den Familien der Getöteten aus und wünschen allen Verletzten baldige Genesung.

Peshmerga forces of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) departed from Arbil by air on Oct. 28 for the Syrian town of Kobane to help Syrian Kurds in their battle against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, according to sources. After arriving to the Şanlıurfa airport, they will travel to Kobane by land.

(11. Juli 2014) Western contractors hired to expand the facility and a local intelligence official confirmed the construction project, which is visible from the main highway linking Erbil to Mosul, the city whose fall June 10 triggered the Islamic State’s sweep through northern and central Iraq. Residents around the airport say they can hear daily what they suspect are U.S. drones taking off and landing at the facility.

Earlier, the US vice president accused Turkey and several Arab countries of supporting the terrorists in Syria. However, he later apologized to the Turkish state’s head.

Turkish FM also said the Free Syrian Army (FSA) has yet to enter Kobani, adding that the talks with Kurdish Democratic Union‘s Party are ongoing and 100 FSA fighters ‚may‘ enter the besieged town.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Oct.28 that PKK, the Syrian regime and ‘Islamic State’ (IS) are the enemies of Turkey.

According to the United Nations, 100,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged, leaving 600,000 Palestinians – nearly one in three of Gaza’s population – homeless or in urgent need of humanitarian help.

Roads, schools and the electricity plant to power water and sewerage systems are in ruins. The cold and wet of winter are approaching. Aid agency Oxfam warns that at the current rate of progress it may take 50 years to rebuild Gaza.

Where else in the world apart from the Palestinian territories would the international community stand by idly as so many people suffer – and not from a random act of God but willed by fellow humans?