The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights noted the anti-Semitism in a cartoon posted on the website of the U.N.'s rapporteur on Palestinians, a rare implicit rebuke, according to a U.N. watchdog.
UN Watch, a Geneva-based human rights monitoring organization, has called on United Nations rights chief Navi Pillay to fire the UN Human Rights Council’s Palestine expert who admitted that he published a ''strongly anti-Semitic'' cartoon.
Israeli central bank chief Stanley Fischer, who has announced his candidacy for IMF chief, is credited with having steered an economic ''miracle'' in Israel despite the global downturn.
Ban Ki-moon says the unity agreement should not undermine peace with Israel and wants Abbas' more moderate Fatah movement to lead any unity government.
Shelved since late 2010 and eclipsed by the pro-democracy Arab uprisings, the faltering Middle East peace process may soon be back in focus as Palestinians push for UN recognition of their state.