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Corrupt side deals and more payoffs to Israelby Grant Smith Posted on
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) continues to lobby Congress for more support for the so-called Abraham Accords. This Trump administration initiative sought to transcend the spectacular failure of the Deal of the Century initiative that called for Palestinian acquiescence to annexation and renunciation of sovereignty rights in exchange for vague and uncertain economic development projects. After Palestinians rejected the deal, the Trump administration pivoted to forging a string of spectacularly corrupt deals with Arab dictatorships. The so-called Abraham Accords attempt to fracture their formerly unified but
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House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney is the highest-ranking female Republican in Congress.
After she publicly fist-bumped Biden and continued to criticize Trump, some want her out of leadership.
Cheney is a veteran of Republican politics, but today s GOP differs greatly from even 5 years ago.
For years, GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming has been seen as a rising star within the party, a straight-talking conservative woman from a dynastic Republican family who ascended to House leadership only two years after her first congressional race.
Cheney was first elected to office on the same day that former President Donald Trump was voted into the White House in 2016.
DUBAI: US President Joe Biden will send a high-level delegation to visit countries in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Jordan, this week, to discuss regional matters, Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Wednesday citing White House sources.
Discussions are expected to include developments on talks with Iran on the nuclear deal taking place in Vienna, the UAE’s purchase of the next generation of F-35 aircraft, as well as the ongoing efforts to calm tensions in the Middle East.
The US envoy to Iran Robert Malley held talks earlier this week with the foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council to relay developments of the meetings in Vienna.
What’s Behind Biden’s High-Stakes Recalibration on Saudi Arabia?
If Mohammed bin Salman continues to hold sway in Saudi Arabia, and U.S. strategic reliance on the country remains unchanged, then encouraging Saudi Arabia to end its long-standing practice of human rights abuse is just empty talk.
U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East during the Trump administration is often criticized as having double standards. On the one hand, Trump abandoned the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, and re-imposed sanctions on Iran, even though the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran was in full compliance with the JCPOA. On the other, Trump did not impose any punishment on Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the crown prince and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, despite the open secret that the CIA concluded that he approved the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018. Although Joe Biden, the new U.S. president, at