Neda Tawfiq
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149 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 May
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And so you have this real tension between what we're hearing at the U.N.,
And what we're hearing from the United States and what we heard in the council today was real concern by a majority of member states that not only was not the fact that not enough aid is getting in to Gaza.
but also that the situation in the West Bank is now a serious threat to an eventual two-state solution, citing the fact that we have seen record settlement expansion and this decision by the Israeli cabinet to approve these far-reaching changes that expand their authority in the occupied West Bank, which today the U.N.
political chief Rosemary DiCarlo said amounted to de facto annexation.
There is absolutely a recognition that the UN Security Council has always been and remains paralyzed because the United States, Israel's key ally, has a veto power.
And there has been a lot of criticism that this has amounted to impunity for Israel because the United States is not taking a tougher stance.
And you heard Yvette Cooper talking about needing more international solidarity to make some headway on a two-state solution, saying that the U.K.
in March would hold a peace-building conference.
Now, that's at the same time that, again, tomorrow, the United States, with this board of peace, says that they have 27 nations on board, that they have $5 billion for rebuilding, pushing a way forward that would include disarming Hamas, trying to get more reconstruction in Gaza.
But at the same time, the U.S.
ambassador to the U.N., Mike Waltz, not even mentioning the West Bank,
So there are certainly areas where there is deep separation between the United States and some of its allies, in fact, on Israel and Palestine.
And so many diplomats are waiting to see what the Board of Peace comes up with.
But at the same time, there is a real fear that the two-state solution is getting further away from being reality.
Two-thirds of the eastern United States affected by this storm.
The damage, you know, just extreme when you think about the sheer levels.
You know, certainly here in New York, we got up to a foot of snow.
You can see the ice floating in the Hudson River, just to give you a sense of the cold temperatures that have come in behind the storm.
But this is a state, a city used to snow.
What we're seeing in the southern United States
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