U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon are permitted to use force in several circumstances, including self-defense and prevention of hostile action in its area of deployment, writes Joe Lauria.
UN Troops in Lebanon Can Shoot Back at Israel
Category: U.N. Security Council
Palestine & the Lessons of East Timor
WATCH: UN Security Council on Widening Mideast War
A Rude Greeting for Netanyahu’s Coming UN Visit
New York demonstrators intend to denounce the prime minister’s visit to the U.N., where members last week demanded that Israel end its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.
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Netanyahu Visit & US Contempt for International Law
To comply with the World Court ruling, the U.S. would have to end its military assistance to Israel and stop providing political and diplomatic cover to enable Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, writes Marjorie Cohn.
10 Principles for 21st Century Peace
An extensive and historically unprecedented set of international institutions offer invaluable tools for pursuing what Immanuel Kant called a “federation of free states,” writes Jeffrey Sachs.
WATCH: Lavrov at UN on Avoiding WWIII
Condemning U.S. exceptionalism, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov laid out to the Security Council how the world can overcome U.S.-led aggression to find peaceful co-existence in a multilateral world.
Gaza & UN Veto Power
With an eye on future U.N. Security Council resolutions concerning Gaza, Dan Becker discusses a possible mechanism in the U.N. Charter to force the U.S. to abstain from voting.
How the ICC Is Overcoming Israeli Impunity
Ramzy Baroud on the power paradigm that long defined the West’s relationship with Palestine and, by extension, the Global South.