Germany says it will arrest Netanyahu as Israeli envoy appeals to Berlin to defy ICC
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JPost ^
| 05.23.2024 | BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Israel’s Ambassador to Berlin, Ron Prosor, was rebuffed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government on Wednesday after the envoy made a dramatic appeal on X, formerly Twitter, to the Federal government to reject the ICC’s legitimacy fully.Scholz’s spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, was asked on Wednesday if the German government would execute an ICC
arrest order against Prime Minister Netanyahu for alleged war crimes during Swords of Iron.Hebestreit said, "Of course. Yes, we abide by the law." German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit was just asked in Berlin whether ICC arrest warrants would be implemented. His answer: "Of course. Yes, we abide by...
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US envoy denies ties with Israel have changed: Only ‘1 set of munitions’ held back
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Times of Israel ^
| 5/13/2024 | TOI STAFF
(Screenshot: Channel 12) US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew insisted Sunday evening that “fundamentally, nothing has changed in the basic relationship” between Israel and the US — despite the decision last week by US President Joe Biden’s administration to delay a shipment of high-payload bombs to Israel, and Biden’s declaration that he
would not supply offensive weapons to Israel for a major IDF offensive affecting population centers in southern Gaza’s Rafah. Noting that military aid from Washington to Jerusalem has increased since war erupted in Gaza after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, Lew stressed in a Channel 12 interview that only...
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Biden Iran envoy put classified documents on hacked personal email, phone: GOP lawmakers
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NY Post ^
| 5/07/24 | Victor Nava
Republicans lawmakers have uncovered “troubling allegations” that President Biden’s suspended special envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, stored classified material on his personal email account and cellphone — which was later accessed by a “hostile cyber actor.” The
top Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committee on Monday asked the State Department to confirm the allegations against Malley, who was quietly placed on unpaid leave last June and had his security clearance suspended amid a State Department investigation reportedly centered on his potential mishandling of classified information. The State Department has refused to reveal the exact nature...
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U.S. NATO envoy doesn’t expect Ukraine to be offered membership at July D.C. summit
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The Washington Times ^
| April 29, 2024 | Mike Glenn
The U.S. ambassador to NATO, Julianne Smith, doesn’t expect the alliance to offer membership to Ukraine during its 75th anniversary summit in Washington in July. But, she added, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy won’t go away empty-handed. Speaking
to the Atlantic Council from NATO headquarters in Brussels, Ms. Smith on Monday said the 32 NATO allies are working on an “actual deliverable” that will demonstrate the alliance’s loyalty their commitment to ensuring Ukraine’s sovereignty. Last year, NATO formally said Ukraine’s future lies with the alliance. “I am expecting allies to construct a bridge to membership by offering Ukraine a ‘deliverable’ that...
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‘Be quiet:’ Israel summons Turkish envoy after Erdogan threatens Netanyahu: Turkish President vows to send Netanyahu ‘to Allah’
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Times of Israel ^
| 03/23/2024
Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Friday ordered the Foreign Ministry to summon Turkey’s envoy to Israel for a “serious reprimand” after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “send [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to Allah.” “I instructed officials to summon the Turkish deputy ambassador to Israel for a serious reprimand, following Erdogan’s
serious attack on Prime Minister Netanyahu and his threats to send PM Netanyahu to Allah and to convey a clear message to Erdogan,” Katz posted on X. “You who support the burning of babies, murderers, rapists and the mutilation of corpses by Hamas criminals, [are] the last one...
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Gang violence is surging to unprecedented levels in Haiti, UN envoy says
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ap ^
| January 25, 2024 | EDITH M. LEDERER
UNITED NATIONS — An unprecedented surge in gang violence is plaguing Haiti, with the number of victims killed, injured and kidnapped more than doubling last year, the U.N. special envoy for the conflict-wracked Caribbean nations said Thursday. In a grim briefing, Maria Isabel Salvador told the U.N. Security Council, “I cannot overstress
the severity of the situation in Haiti, where multiple protracted crises have reached a critical point.” She said the 8,400 victims of gang violence documented by her U.N. office last year — a 122% rise from 2022 — were mainly targeted by gangs in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Some...
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John Kerry to Step Down as Biden’s Climate Envoy
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WSJ ^
| 13 January 2024 | Annie Linskey & Andrew Restuccia
John Kerry is stepping down as the president’s special envoy for climate this spring, according to two people familiar with the decision. The
change comes weeks after Kerry, 80, played a key role during a climate conference in Dubai helping to forge a compromise among nearly 200 countries aimed at reducing fossil fuels. The White House didn’t immediately comment on Kerry’s decision. Kerry, whose departure will come as President Biden is intensifying his re-election campaign, is one of the few top officials to depart an administration that has had historically low turnover. Kerry has held the post for three years...
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Yemen warring parties commit to ceasefire, UN-led peace process, says envoy
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AlJazeera ^
The warring sides in the long-running conflict in Yemen have committed to steps towards a ceasefire and engage in a United Nations-led peace process, according to the UN special envoy for Yemen. The announcement by Hans Grundberg on Saturday marks the latest step to end a nine-year war that has killed hundreds
of thousands of people and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Following a series of meetings between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and Iran-aligned Houthis in Saudi Arabia and Oman, a statement by Grundberg’s office said he “welcomes the parties’ commitment to a set of measures to...
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UN Palestine envoy: Demands that Hamas release hostages 'unacceptable'
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Arutz Sheva ^
| 5/12/23 | Gary Willig
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, who previously claimed that Israel does not have the right to protect itself from the Hamas terrorist organization, stated that calls for Hamas to release the hostages it kidnapped on October 7 are "unacceptable." Albanese
responded to a tweet by former State Department official Dennis Ross, who wrote: "The suffering of Palestinians in Gaza is real. Why not call on Hamas to release all hostages and agree to have its leaders leave Gaza. They could save Palestinians from paying a further price. Real support for Palestinians should produce such a call....
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Biden’s Pompous Jet-Setting ‘Climate Envoy’ John Kerry Whines About Farmers…AGAIN
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Gateway Pundit ^
| November 18, 2023 | Christina Laila
Biden’s pompous jet-setting ‘climate envoy’ John Kerry spoke at the 2023 APEC summit.
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Rand Paul voted with Dems for Lew to be Israel envoy
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Roll Call ^
| Oct 25 | Roll Call
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday advanced the nomination of former Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew to be the U.S. ambassador to Israel, at one of the most perilous moments in the Jewish state’s history. The
committee approved Lew by a mostly partisan vote of 12-9. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was the only Republican to vote in support of the nomination. Lew’s work during the Obama administration in implementing the sanctions relief the U.S. agreed to provide to Iran as part of the multinational nuclear deal was the source of much of the GOP grievances against the longtime...
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Biden’s UN envoy at Israel solidarity rally: ‘Never again’ is now. Am Yisrael Chai’
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Times of Israel ^
| 10/11/2023 | Jacob Majid
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield says Americans must tell the stories of the victims of Hamas’s onslaught over the weekend. “Hamas
terrorists slaughtered more than a thousand innocent civilians, including at least 22 Americans. Reports estimate that more than 100 civilians were taken hostage. But these numbers – as shocking as they are – do not do justice to the depths of horrors, the depravity of the violence. They do not do justice to the victims and their loved ones. Human lives are not just numbers,” Thomas-Greenfield says at a diplomatic community gathering in solidarity with Israel hosted...
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Suspicion surrounds ex-Iran envoy Rob Malley after Israel attack: ‘Worst State Department scandal’
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NYPost ^
| 10/9/23 | Josh Christenson
The Biden administration’s former special envoy to Iran, who was placed on leave earlier this year for allegedly mishandling classified material, should face “extensive scrutiny” for his “permissive” stance toward the Tehran regime after it aided Hamas and Hezbollah in carrying out terrorist attacks against Israel, critics said Monday. “Rob Malley deserves
extensive scrutiny — yesterday, today and tomorrow,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told The Post after the Wall Street Journal reported officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps planned and signed off on this weekend’s atrocity that killed at least 900. “These reports could not be more concerning, and...
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[Catholic Caucus] Pope’s envoy rejects claims of a ‘great divide’ between Francis and the US
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Crux ^
| September 30, 2023 | Elise Ann Allen
[Catholic Caucus] Pope’s envoy rejects claims of a ‘great divide’ between Francis and the USROME – Cardinal-designate Christophe Pierre, Pope Francis’s envoy to the United States and one of his new red hat recipients, has rejected perceptions of a “great divide” between the Argentine pontiff and the Church in the United States.Speaking
to Crux during a Sept. 29 press point in Rome, Pierre said he would not describe the situation between the pope and the US Church as “a great divide, it’s not a great divide. I think it’s more correct to say that we live in a society which...
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The Problem With Climate Envoy Kerry’s Statements On China (China Leads The World In CO2 Production AND Is Building More Coal-fired Plants)
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Confounded Interest ^
| 09/23/2023 | Anthony B. Sanders
Non-scientist, 100% politician John Kerry, Biden’s special climiate enjoy, jets around the world lecturing everyone on global warming. Sort
of like Leonardo Di Caprio, but uglier. But the same false science in order to control the people. Kerry praised China for its progress in fighting climate change (which changes with the seasons and is also dependent on how close Earth moves towards the Sun in its elipse). But Kerry, Obama, Biden, etc all pretend that it is all due to fossil fuels. And CO2 emissions are bad. (Actually, we need CO2 for plant life to thrive, but don’t tell John...
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US Envoy Feasts on Fukushima Fish, Slams China Water 'Dumps'
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Channel News Asia ^
| 31 Aug 2023
The US envoy to Japan feasted on fish from Fukushima on Thursday (Aug 31), saying that water discharged from the crippled nuclear plant was safer than that "dumped" by Chinese atomic facilities. China
banned all seafood imports from its neighbour last week after Japan began releasing wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean, accusing Tokyo of treating the ocean like a "sewer". "Japan over the decade has done exactly the right things in the right way. International scientific rigour, fully transparent, and inviting the international community to monitor their progress cleaning the water," Ambassador Rahm Emanuel said as he visited...
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Tehran backs Armenian territorial integrity, sovereignty: Iran envoy
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Tehran Times ^
| August 26th, 2023
“Our fundamental policy is to develop relations with the Republic of Armenia. Iran always defends the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Armenia. The two countries have never had any problems in any field or level, especially since Armenia regained its independence,” said Mehdi Sobhani while visiting an economic exhibition in Yerevan. Tensions
have been rising between Armenia and its neighbor, the Republic of Azerbaijan as Baku has set up a checkpoint on the only land route connecting Armenia to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Baku is seeking to create a corridor in the region to gain unimpeded access to Nakhchivan Autonomous...
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Niger junta cut electricty, water supply to French embassy after envoy defied quit order
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https://www.ghanaweb.com/ ^
| 28 August 2023 | General News of Monday,
The Nigérien junta has reportedly ordered utility supply to the French embassy to be cut, according to reports by a regional security expert. The
president of the National Support Committee for the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country (CNSP), Elh Issa Hassoumi Boureima, has asked all partners of French bases in Niger to suspend all water and electricity supplies and food products, said the reports. In addition, any partners who continue to help the French in the process of supplying the goods and services will be considered “enemies of the sovereign people,” the reports added.
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Pope Francis Confirms Vatican Envoy’s Visit to China in Wide-Ranging Interview
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National Catholic Register ^
| August 4, 2023 | Jonathan Liedl
Pope Francis Confirms Vatican Envoy’s Visit to China in Wide-Ranging InterviewIn a newly published interview, Pope Francis described the ongoing Synod on Synodality as fulfilling “the dream of Paul VI” and underscored that the process is about recovering a lost form of ecclesial participation, not changing doctrine.The Holy Father also confirmed rumors
that Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the Vatican’s special envoy for peace in Ukraine, will soon be visiting China. The pope described Zuppi’s “scheduled stopover” in Beijing as part of the Vatican’s “peace offensive,” which has already included visits to Kyiv, Moscow, and Washington, D.C. The Pope said he is...
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Republicans Move to Defund John Kerry’s Climate Envoy Office
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American Greatness ^
| 07/20/2023 | Eric Lendrum
On Wednesday, over two dozen Republicans in the House of Representatives introduced a bill that would cut all funding for John Kerry’s newly-established “climate envoy” office at the State Department. As Fox News reports, the No Taxpayer Funding for Climate Zealots Advancing Radical Schemes Act would forbid the use of any federal
funds from being appropriated for the purpose of funding Kerry’s office, including for such purposes as travel, administrative, and salary expenses. Biden first created the office specifically for Kerry in 2021; despite not requiring any confirmation by the Senate, the post nonetheless allows Kerry to partake in meetings...
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