Saudi-led forces, Israel among states rapped by U.N. for killing children

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1UL2SH

A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition fighting in Yemen killed or injured 729 children during 2018, accounting for nearly half the total child casualties, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report to the Security Council on Friday that blacklisted the coalition for a third year.
Guterres also reported that the highest number of Palestinian children had been killed or injured last year since 2014, mainly by Israeli forces, though no parties were blacklisted in the annex to the annual Children in Armed Conflict report, seen by Reuters.
The report, which does not subject those listed to action but rather shames parties to conflicts in the hope of pushing them to implement measures to protect children, has long been controversial with diplomats saying Saudi Arabia and Israel both exerted pressure in recent years in a bid to stay off the list.

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Saudi Arabia calls on UN to provide protection to Palestinians

Saudi Arabia has called upon the international community and the Security Council to assume their responsibilities in providing the necessary protection for the Palestinian people and to put an end to Israel's attacks and systematic violations of Islamic and Christian holy places, particularly Al-Aqsa Mosque, Saudi Press Agency reported on Wednesday.

http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/5...o-Palestinians

This was prior to the above and prior to the fire at the church.

Vatican Accuses Israel of Risking Monks' Lives in Fire

https://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/f...-lives-in-fire

The fire was reported Friday night but no one showed up to put it out until Saturday.


What the Saudis and the world were already angry about..


Israel Begins Tearing Down Palestinian Housing on Edge of East Jerusalem

they were built too close to its security barrier in a Palestinian area of the West Bank

https://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/f...tinian-capital

and the US lately??

Why didn't Pompeo meet Israel's Foreign Minister?
https://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/f...reign-minister

The world leaders want an Israel but they are also drawing religious lines in the sand.

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other things that could be adding to the problem

Things like this are happening more and more..

‘Death to Arabs’: Police probe apparent hate crime in Kafr Qassem

https://www.timesofisrael.com/death-...n-kafr-qassem/

and Netanyahu's Nation State laws and his new alliance with religious parties who promote things like the above.

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The clashes in the different end time religious beliefs. Even among Christians and Jews.

And the Jews are waiting for 'messiah".

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Ayelet Shaked’s New Right merges with URWP after marathon talks

A pair of religious, right-wing parties on Monday announced they had successfully closed a deal to merge into a single electoral slate, led by former justice minister Ayelet Shaked, ahead of the upcoming September elections.
The announcement was condemned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party over its failure to include several other far-right parties in the union.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ayelet...arathon-talks/


Netanyahu trying to convince Otzma Yehudit and Zehut to merge — report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting to push a merger between the far-right Otzma Yehudit party and the quasi-libertarian nationalist Zehut, in a bid to ensure right-wing votes are not lost on parties that will not pass the electoral threshold, the Kan public broadcaster reports.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/livebl...-merge-report/

Shaked: We also want to unite with Zehut, Otzma Yehudit

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266652

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Netanyahu trying to arrange Putin visit to Jerusalem before elections

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office is trying to arrange a visit to Israel by Russian President Vladimir Putin, seeking to bolster support for his Likud party among immigrants from the former USSR ahead of the September elections, Channel 12 reports.
The Jerusalem municipality has approved the possibility of dedicating a new memorial in the capital for victims of siege of Leningrad during World War II — an event Putin has expressed interest in attending in past meetings with Netanyahu, the TV report says.
Netanyahu is aiming for the event to occur in September, before the Knesset vote.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/livebl...ctions-report/

If at all possible Putin will make an appearance as he and his chief Rabbi are big supporters of Netanyahu and actively supported him in the last election.

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Likud adorns HQ with Trump, Putin, Modi

The Likud began a campaign on Sunday portraying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “in another league” from his competition.

As part of the campaign, the party hung massive posters from its 15-story headquarters in Tel Aviv featuring Netanyahu with US President Donald Trump, Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on three sides of the building. A Likud spokeswoman said that there would be no poster on the fourth side “for now.”

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Li...in-Modi-597009