# Netanyahu’s UN Walkout Echoes in Valletta: Maltese Diplomats Join Global Rebuke, Sparking Debate in a Nation That Knows Occupation First-Hand Valletta’s Grand Harbour was unusually quiet yesterday afternoon, but inside cafés along Strait Street the espresso machines hissed louder than the usual political gossip. The reason? Mobile phones buzzed with push alerts that Israeli…
**Palestinian Leader to Address UN as Peace Push Gathers Steam: Malta’s Historic Role in Middle East Diplomacy** As Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas prepares to address the United Nations General Assembly this week, momentum for renewed Middle East peace talks has reached a critical juncture. For Malta, a nation whose own history is deeply intertwined with…
Valletta’s streets were unusually quiet on Thursday morning, but the hush outside Parliament was deceptive. Inside the United Nations General Assembly hall in New York, Maltese Foreign Minister Ian Borg drew a deliberate breath, glanced once at the turquoise-&-white flag on the desk in front of him, and declared: “Malta formally recognises the State of…
Valletta’s Parliament may sit 1,400 km from New York’s East River, but when the UN General Assembly votes this Thursday on a resolution that would recognise a Hamas-free Palestinian state, the ripple will be felt in every Maltese living-room, parish hall and band club that still remembers the 1948 refugee ships that steamed past our…
