Finding My Voice in the Extended UN Security Council Peacemaking Circle


Yesterday's UN Security Council meeting on the Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question, was nuanced, informative and moving. I hold the diplomats at the United Nations in high regard. I also have great respect for the civil society representative - a fellow American - who briefed the council yesterday. If you have never listened to a full UN Security Council meeting on the Palestinian Question, let me suggest that this was one for the history books. The ceasefire, hostage release, and two-state negotiations are sensitive, alongside the nuclear negotiations with Iran, and I have to ask God whether there is anything I should be writing to change the existing state of play on these tracks: