Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist


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

Palestinians regularly lie to the world with their propaganda campaign aimed at exonerating themselves of all responsibility and at delegitimizing the Jewish State of Israel. United Nations establishment serves as their apologist and enabler

UN’s targets in meeting its highly publicized Sustainable Development Goals is to “substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms.” Llatest corruption scandal indicates it is woefully unprepared to do so

Obama used the bubble afforded by the United Nations to insulate himself and his audiences from reality

“Shows of military force” and “diplomacy” are not incompatible, as Obama seems to believe

Christians and other religious minorities are suffering genocide in the Middle East and parts of Africa directly as a result of Islamic jihad. They cannot afford to worry about the effects of climate change. They are in a daily battle for their lives

"When the Palestinians set the Temple Mount ablaze, Mahmoud Abbas fuels the fire, and the Security Council fans the flames, it is a recipe for a regional explosion"

Virtues of "global" citizenship

Between 2007 and July 31, 2015 there were reportedly 690 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse for all categories of UN personnel, according to the UN’s own Office of Internal Oversight Services

UNRWA’s latest appeal for more than $100 million in special additional funding should be treated in the same way as the boy who cried wolf

To Iran’s jihadist leaders with hegemonic designs, as the Persian proverb says, “silence betokens consent.”

Today is a very sad day. Not only for the state of Israel, but for the entire world, even if at this moment, the international community refuses to see the tragedy

The United Nations Security Council is being used to midwife the legal instrument that legitimizes the path to a possible nuclear holocaust.

UN’s prevalent culture of moral relativism, self-righteousness and an entitlement bureaucracy

UN has lost its way, as so vividly illustrated by the moral equivalence, if not worse, it applies to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the massacres in Syria

The Two Popes June 22, 2015
Economic freedom, individual liberties must not be sacrificed at the altar of religious or secular dogma, that climate change is an immediate existential crisis that can only be solved by top-down dictates and controlled wealth redistribution

Mogens Lykketoft: Cheerleader for the wealth redistributionist ideology

Proof of the demonization and attempts to delegitimize the Jewish state of Israel at the United Nations. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's latest report on "children and armed conflict"

Obama cannot be trusted. He is willing to sell Israel down the river to secure his own legacy as a “peacemaker.”

Palestinians’ propaganda efforts to completely de-legitimize Israel and isolate it from the international community

Obama administration is heading down a path with Iran that ultimately will make further nuclear proliferation more likely, not less

President Obama is quick to condemn acts he considers to be demonstrations of Islamophobia. However, he remains on the sidelines while the genocide of Christians goes on unabated during our lifetime

Shame on the Obama administration if it further enables this travesty

If Iran defies the Yemen arms embargo. it will have demonstrated its utter contempt for any international constraints, which should give Congress and Obama administration even more pause in expecting Iran to ever allow access

Morally confused leftist mind, Very existence of the Jewish state is reason enough to place the ultimate responsibility on Israel for the slaughter and starvation committed by the Syrian regime, the Islamic State and other jihadists

Dissing America's key allies pretty much sums up President Obama's disjointed foreign policy

The UN Security Council’s inaction against Iran regarding its blatant arming, training and funding of the Houthis in Yemen, in violation of a prior Security Council resolution, is no accident

If Obama decides to use the UN to help enable the isolation or surrender of Israel, he will have sabotaged the only democratic, pluralistic state in the Middle East while continuing to coddle the repressive Iranian theocratic regime

In hiding behind the UN, Obama and Kerry will freeze Congress out of the process and jeopardize the security of United States and its allies

In sum, Hillary Clinton tried to use the typical Clintonian evasive tactics, hoping the press and the American people will move on to other matters

Familiar pattern: Israel makes a peaceful gesture. Palestinians respond with unconditional demands, more violence. United Nations gives Palestinians the benefit of the doubt