Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist


Most Recent Articles by Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist:

Security Council became a kangaroo court, turning a perverted version of “international law” against the Trump administration for its just defense of the Jewish state of Israel and Israel's right to choose its own capital

Calls for solidarity in isolating regime undercut by UN bureaucracy hiring of North Korean national

Russia has been playing games with innocent lives by undermining the ability to get at the truth regarding who is responsible for unleashing horrendous chemical attacks in Syria

Trump administration will likely oppose any new international treaty attempting to ban or heavily regulate such weapons

Justify ICC jurisdiction over U.S. citizens for certain alleged crimes even though the U.S. is not a party to the Rome Statute

United Nations giving $1.3 billion across 16 different agencies to fund Palestinian lawfare campaigns against Israel

Nikki Haley and Israel's UN Ambassador Danon at the Security Council this week denouncing Iran

The latest election of some of the world's worst human rights abusing countries to serve on the Council does not hold out any hope of real reform

President Trump has good reason to want a do-over when it comes to the Paris Agreement and the "green" financial commitments made by Barack Obama.

President Trump may be maneuvering towards a position that uses the threat of restoring sanctions, and imposing new secondary sanctions on firms doing business with certain individuals and entities in Iran

President Trump would do well to continue channeling Ronald Reagan and to rectify the abysmal failures of the Obama foreign policy of appeasement and apologies for America’s strength

Security Council Resolution 2375 continues to kick the can down the road. Nothing the UN has done or may do in the future will help “take the future of the North Korean nuclear program out of the hands of its outlaw regime,”

Crash programs to develop and deploy far more robust missile defense systems in strategic locations and to harden the United States’ electric grid against a possible EMP attack are of immediate priority

Anastasia Crickley, The United Nations and Glass Houses

The U.S. Constitution protects Americans from having their core liberties as a free sovereign people undermined by a vague global governance “value system”

New UN resolution bans North Korea’s exports of coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore and seafood

Expecting a different outcome this time falls under the definition of insanity generally attributed to Albert Einstein: “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

Palestinian terrorists have changed the conditions for maintaining the status quo by bringing their slaughter into the immediate vicinity of the Temple Mount holy site

Christian refugee admissions increase during the first five months of Trump presidency

GAZA TEN YEARS LATER - United Nations Country Team in the occupied Palestinian

Exertion of strong American leadership stands any chance of success in thwarting rogue regime's escalating ambitions. Must be backed up by credible threats of economic pressure on countries doing business with North Korea and use of military force

The Palestinians have only their own leadership to blame for their present plight

UNRWA should be forced to make a choice. Either show some backbone and not participate in advancing a curriculum in its schools that directly contradicts the two-state solution the UN claims it supports, or lose all funding from the United States

The United Nations has been serving as an enabler of North Korea’s chemical program

This will provide yet another reason for the Trump administration to pull out of the dysfunctional, misnamed Human Rights Council and to withdraw funding

Ambassador Haley has astutely challenged the United Nations Security Council to deal honestly with the most dangerous state in the Middle East – Iran – and to leave Israel alone for once

Russian President Vladimir Putin would do well to act cautiously. He is no longer dealing with weak-kneed Barack Obama who drew red lines but did not follow through. President Trump has demonstrated that he does mean what he says

No other country in the Middle East comes anywhere close to Israel’s record as a free democratic state.

Obama admin. engaged in "diplomatic malpractice," specifically at the Human Rights Council, more generally at the United Nations as a whole, by indulging their hatefests. Hopefully, President Trump will succeed in reversing this destructive course

The MSNBC host's "breaking story" releasing Trump's tax return on air breaks apart