UN Security Council to discuss Palestinian elections
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The United Nations Security Council will meet on Thursday to discuss upcoming Palestinian elections and to address the issue of Israel preventing residents in occupied East Jerusalem from voting.
Other issues expected to be discussed include Israeli violations of international law, illegal settlements, and the annexation of Palestinian land.
Speaking to
Voice of Palestine radio, Riyad Mansour, Permanent Representative of Palestine to the UN, said that the session is vital to highlight Israel s breaches of UN resolutions and international law.
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Blinken is wrong on Israel’s demography
There is no Arab demographic time bomb there is, however, an unprecedented Jewish demographic tailwind.
(April 18, 2021 / JNS) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken keeps advising Israel to retreat from the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) lest it lose its Jewish majority.
Secretary Blinken is wrong, relying on highly inflated, erroneous Palestinian Authority numbers, ignoring the dramatic Westernization of Arab demography and overlooking the unprecedent Jewish demographic tailwind in Israel, as documented by the following data.
Jewish demography bolstered
• The number of Israeli Jewish births in 2020 (134,866) was 68 percent higher than in 1995 (80,400), while the number of Israeli Arab births in 2020 was 16 percent higher (42,435) than 1995 (36,500), as reported by the March 2021 Monthly Bulletin of Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.
1,389 candidates to run in 36 lists in Palestine election Of the 36 lists that had applied to run in the election, seven are parties while 29 are independent lists April 6, 2021 at 12:35 pm 1,389 candidates to run in 36 lists in Palestine election [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor] 1,389 candidates to run in 36 lists in Palestine election [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor] 1,389 candidates to run in 36 lists in Palestine election [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]
The Palestinian Election Commission announced it has approved 36 candidate lists ahead of the legislative elections set for next month.
The committee said in a press release that access to the lists and candidates details are available on its website and in its offices and voters are welcome to submit objections to the lists of candidates no later than Thursday.