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Israel does not have the right to defend itself, Russia’s representative to the United Nations said on Wednesday. The United States and its allies are hypocritical for talking “about Israel’s alleged right for self-defense, which, as an occupying state, it does not have, as was confirmed by the [U.N.’s] International Court [of Justice] consultative ruling in 2004,” Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya told a U.N. General Assembly special session on the Israel-Hamas war. The ICJ’s 2004 advisory opinion stated that Israel could not invoke an inherent right to self-defense under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter against any threat coming from an...

Dear _______, First of all, we would like to extend our apologies for not including the country of Israel on the list of countries and territories where there are YMCAs at work and to confirm that Israel will be included on the Peace Week t-shirt next year. Each year, when designing the t-shirt, we attempt to reflect the countries and territories where there are current national movements of YMCAs. At times, YMCAs are closed down because of internal wars and may not re-open for a number of years. It is not our intent to exclude any country or territory where...